Denise Richards Is Closing the Chapel Doors: “Absof—lutely Not” to Marriage No. 3
After Charlie Sheen, a fractured Aaron Phypers split and a brutal legal battle, Richards is done with the paperwork—but not with love.
Denise Richards has apparently reviewed the institution of marriage and would like to unsubscribe.
During an appearance on Jenny McCarthy’s podcast this week, the actor gave a brisk, emphatic answer when asked whether she might ever walk down the aisle again. “Will I ever get married again? Absof—lutely not,” Richards said. “I don’t want that piece of paper.”
That is not the language of someone leaving the door cracked for a tasteful second-chance romance, a low-key Malibu ceremony or a vow renewal staged for a streaming special. That is the language of a woman who has seen the paperwork, the promises and the aftermath—and is now choosing emotional freedom with the force of a court order.
Richards, 55, has been married twice: first to Charlie Sheen, and later to Aaron Phypers. Her first marriage ended in 2006 after roughly four years; her second began with a Malibu wedding in September 2018 and unraveled into a contentious legal fight after Phypers filed for divorce in July 2025.
“I’m 0 for 2” is the new relationship status
Richards summed up her matrimonial record with a line that is both bleak and extremely on-brand for a woman who has spent decades surviving in public: “I’m 0 for 2.”
With Sheen, Richards shares two daughters, Sami, 22, and Lola, 20. She filed for divorce while six months pregnant with Lola and later described the marriage as “very toxic.” In a 2022 appearance on Caroline Stanbury’s podcast, Richards said her breaking point came when she asked herself whether she would want her daughters dating someone like Sheen.
It is a devastatingly simple test, and one that turns a celebrity marriage into something more recognizable: the moment a person stops asking whether a relationship can be saved and starts asking what it is teaching the children watching it.
Sheen’s relationship with Richards played out during one of his most turbulent public eras, when substance abuse struggles and erratic behavior regularly became part of the celebrity news cycle. But Richards did not emerge from that marriage into some blissful, private epilogue. She eventually found Phypers, married him in a romantic Malibu ceremony and then found herself facing another deeply painful split.
The second marriage left a much darker aftertaste
On McCarthy’s podcast, Richards said she is still “unraveling” what happened with Phypers. She claimed that he viewed her as “a product” and that their relationship was “a business arrangement” rather than a marriage. “So that part, I can’t do again,” she said.
Those are not the breezy post-divorce comments of someone complaining about an ex’s bad taste in restaurants. Richards was describing a fundamental collapse of meaning: the idea that the relationship she believed she had entered was not the relationship Phypers believed he was in.
Richards has also accused Phypers of years of physical abuse. She testified in Los Angeles Superior Court about multiple incidents and claimed he caused her “at least three concussions.” Phypers has denied the abuse allegations. In November 2025, a judge granted Richards a five-year restraining order against him, and Page Six reports that Phypers was ordered to pay more than $25,000 in sanctions in September.
Richards said she wants, eventually, to let go of her “hatred” for Phypers because she does not believe carrying it is healthy. But she also made clear that there is plenty she is not ready to package into a neat, inspirational ending. There was, she said, a lot of “s–t” that happened behind closed doors.
That tension is the real story: Richards is trying to move forward without pretending the past was merely a bad date or an ill-advised vacation. She can want peace and still be furious. She can hope to heal and still refuse to soften what she says happened.
No husband, no problem—but love is still on the menu
The most interesting part of Richards’ declaration is that she is not swearing off romance. She is swearing off the legal architecture around it.
“I would have a partner, and I want to fall in love again, so I don’t want to be bitter …” she said.
That is a very 2026 distinction: keep the chemistry, cancel the ceremony; share a life, skip the document; fall in love, retain your own exit strategy. Marriage may be out, but companionship is not. Richards is not announcing that she has become a monk. She is saying that “forever” does not need a witness, a venue or a signature page to feel real—and, given her history, perhaps it should not come with one.
There is also something deliciously Hollywood about the contrast. Richards became famous as a glamorous actor, played a Bond girl and starred on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” a franchise built on women discussing their marriages, divorces, betrayals and dinner-party meltdowns in couture. She knows exactly how quickly a private relationship can become public property. She also knows that a wedding can look like a happy ending while the actual story is only beginning.
Her first marriage connected her to Sheen and the “Two and a Half Men” orbit; her second placed her inside another highly visible relationship that ultimately became a legal and emotional battleground. After two very different versions of public heartbreak, Richards is now choosing the most radical celebrity move of all: she is declining the sequel.
Still, “never again” is one of pop culture’s favorite phrases because it sounds permanent right up until life gets bored and changes the plot. Richards may meet someone who makes her laugh, someone who understands the baggage, someone who never asks her to prove love with a piece of paper. She may remain single. She may build a committed partnership that exists entirely outside the aisle.
For now, the message is clear enough to print on a welcome mat: romance, possibly; marriage, absolutely not. Denise Richards has had two husbands, two very public exits and more than enough experience with the fine print. The next great love of her life can bring flowers. They should leave the officiant at home.
Three Years Separated, Zero Divorce Papers: Mauricio Umansky Says Kyle Richards Are Still Taking It ‘Day by Day’
The former Beverly Hills power couple has been apart since 2023, but Mauricio says the marriage is still waiting on paperwork, patience and a little less public pressure.
Some celebrity marriages end with a lawyer, a statement and a suspiciously well-lit Instagram carousel. Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky are doing something much more Beverly Hills: remaining legally married, emotionally familiar and just vague enough to keep the conversation alive three years after their separation.
Umansky has now confirmed that he and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star still have not filed for divorce. Appearing on E!’s Hot Goss, he described Richards as his best friend, the mother of their children and someone he still loves. Then he made the part that will send Bravo group chats into overdrive very clear: they are not getting back together “as of now.”
“Obviously, we have not filed yet,” Umansky said, according to Reality Tea. “But to all of these separations that people go through, do it with dignity.”
That is not exactly a hard launch of reconciliation. It is something more slippery and, frankly, more interesting: a long-running breakup with no tidy final act.
The divorce that keeps refusing to become a divorce
Richards and Umansky announced their separation in 2023 after 27 years of marriage. The relationship itself stretched across roughly three decades, making this less of a standard celebrity split than the dismantling of an entire shared era. Their family, Bravo history and public identities have been intertwined for years, and the couple share three daughters: Alexia, 30, Sophia, 26, and Portia, 18.
So when Umansky says they are “great friends,” it lands differently than the usual celebrity breakup vocabulary. There is no scorched-earth declaration here, no carefully worded “we remain committed to co-parenting” sentence that sounds like it was assembled by three attorneys and a publicist. Instead, he is describing a relationship that has changed shape without disappearing.
“She and I had a relationship for 30 years. She’s my best friend, she’s the mother of my kids, we loved each other, we love each other,” he said.
The tense shift is doing a lot of work. They loved each other. They love each other. The romance, according to Umansky, is over for now; the affection and history are not. Celebrity culture usually wants one clean label at a time, but Richards and Umansky are living in the awkward middle, where “ex” does not fully explain the person still occupying a major place in your life.
And no, this is not the reunion fans keep trying to manifest
Umansky also addressed the inevitable question: does the absence of divorce papers mean a reconciliation is secretly brewing? His answer was essentially no, followed by a shrug-shaped cloud of uncertainty.
He dismissed rumors that the pair are getting back together, saying they are not reuniting at this point. He added that they are taking things “day by day,” then joked that he was not going to offer insight he does not have yet.
That may be the most honest update available. Three years into a separation, there is still no dramatic filing to close the chapter, but there is also no confirmation that the old relationship has returned. The internet, naturally, would prefer a more cinematic explanation. No papers must mean unfinished business; public warmth must mean a secret second chance; a shared family history must mean the door is still open. Umansky’s version is less satisfying and probably more recognizable: sometimes people do not know exactly what the final arrangement will look like.
It also explains why this couple remains such reliable reality-TV currency. Richards and Umansky have not simply announced a breakup and vanished from the conversation. Their separation continues to unfold in public, where every interview becomes a tiny update and every carefully neutral sentence gets examined for emotional subtext.
The public part is the part they seem to hate
Umansky said navigating the split while people keep asking questions has not been fun. That is a particularly sharp problem for a couple whose lives have been presented to viewers for years. The audience is not merely curious about whether they are together; it has been trained to look for clues in tone, timing and proximity.
His preferred language is “dignity,” “respect” and “elegance,” words that sound almost rebellious in a celebrity breakup cycle built on leaks, subtweets and courtroom-adjacent oversharing.
“If we can teach anybody anything, it’s how to do it with elegance and dignity and have respect for each other,” he said.
That does not mean the situation is free of awkwardness. It means the awkwardness is being managed without turning every unresolved feeling into content. For Richards and Umansky, staying civil is not a fluffy add-on; it is the central plot. They have adult daughters, a long shared history and a level of public attention that makes even ordinary family logistics feel like a season finale.
Umansky’s comments about The Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test added another glimpse into that family dynamic. He said Richards was not happy when he and their daughter Alexia signed up for the show, while describing filming alongside Alexia as a priceless experience. Even here, the family story is complicated rather than neatly divided into Team Kyle and Team Mauricio.
A breakup with no finale is still a storyline
For now, the status is remarkably simple: separated since 2023, not legally divorced, not romantically reunited, and still connected by love, friendship and family. It is not the explosive update the rumor mill keeps auditioning for. It is the slower, stranger reality of a relationship that has outlasted its marriage.
Richards has not, in the account published by Reality Tea, offered a new public statement alongside Umansky’s comments. So the loudest message belongs to him: the paperwork has not happened, the reconciliation is not happening “as of now,” and nobody should expect a neat answer on demand.
That leaves the former Beverly Hills couple in the most modern celebrity category of all: publicly separate, privately evolving and permanently available for interpretation. Somewhere between a divorce filing and a reunion, Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky are still figuring out what they are to each other. And because they are doing it in public, “day by day” has become its own kind of cliffhanger.
Kendall Jenner Says Cara Delevingne Is the Only Woman She’d Sleep With — Naturally, the Internet Is Listening
On The Kardashians, Kendall finally addresses the years of speculation around her friendship with Cara, admits dating men can be exhausting and delivers one extremely memorable hypothetical.
Kendall Jenner has finally entered the group chat about the rumor that has followed her and Cara Delevingne for years — and she did it with wine, a camera crew and the particular kind of candor that makes reality television impossible to quit.
On the latest episode of The Kardashians, Kendall and Cara sit together while the conversation turns to the longstanding speculation about Kendall’s sexuality. The model does not pretend she has missed the Reddit threads, Tumblr posts or endless online theories. In fact, she sounds very aware that people still look at her friendship with Cara and wonder if there is more happening behind the scenes.
“People think I’m a lesbian because of our love for each other,” Kendall says. “I’m not. And I feel like you out of everyone would know.”
Cara’s response is delivered with the relaxed confidence of someone who knows she has just been handed a scene-stealing line: “I can attest to the fact that you’re not.”
And there it is: the friendship that has inspired years of speculation, now being discussed by the two people at its center as casually as if they were deciding where to order dinner.
The Kendall-and-Cara friendship is doing a lot of work here
The appeal of this particular reality-TV moment is not simply that Kendall is addressing a rumor. It is that she and Cara are clearly comfortable enough to make the rumor part of their own vocabulary — and to make fun of the assumptions surrounding them without turning the scene into a solemn press statement.
Kendall explains that being a lesbian might actually make her life easier. “I wouldn’t be opposed to having some fun with a girl,” she says, adding that being a lesbian would be “fun and amazing and easier.” Then comes the line that will inevitably be clipped, captioned and sent to friends who have been following this saga for years: “Men suck.”
It is a very Kendall kind of confession: open enough to fuel conversation, playful enough to avoid sounding like a declaration, and perfectly timed for a show built around the difference between what celebrities say privately and what the public thinks it already knows about them.
She then gets even more direct, saying she has nothing against having sex with Cara but has never had a desire to have sex with women. The exchange does not erase the speculation so much as expose how strange the speculation can become when two friends are simply affectionate in public. In the Kardashian-Jenner universe, even friendship can arrive with a fandom, a theory and several competing timelines.
Then Kendall names the woman everyone expected her to name
Cara calls the wine their “truth serum,” which gives Kendall the perfect excuse to turn the question around. If she had to sleep with a woman, who would it be?
The answer is Cara, obviously — but Kendall still gives it a little emotional seasoning. “You’re the only woman that I know would be nice to me,” she tells her.
That line is doing several jobs at once. It is funny. It is flirtatious in the way close friends can be flirtatious. It is also a tiny commentary on Kendall’s dating history without requiring her to name anyone or relitigate every romantic headline attached to her. The scene keeps the energy light while still acknowledging why viewers are paying attention: Kendall and Cara have a visible closeness that people have been interpreting for a very long time.
Neither woman turns the moment into a hard launch, and the conversation does not suggest that they are secretly dating. What it does show is two famous adults refusing to treat a persistent rumor as something too precious, scandalous or embarrassing to discuss. They are in control of the joke, which is usually the most satisfying place for a celebrity to be.
The timing is where the fandom will really start typing
According to the episode context described by Perez Hilton, the conversation appears to have been filmed before Kendall began dating Wuthering Heights actor Jacob Elordi. That gives the scene an extra layer now that Kendall is publicly linked to him — especially because her “men suck” comment lands very differently when viewers know she is, at least publicly, involved with a man.
The contrast is classic reality-TV timing. A conversation that might have felt like a standalone friendship moment becomes newly relevant once a relationship enters the picture. Suddenly, viewers are not only listening to what Kendall says about Cara; they are mentally placing the scene inside the larger Kendall-Jacob timeline and wondering when, exactly, the wine was poured.
The episode does not present Kendall’s comments as a coded message about her current relationship. It presents them as a candid, slightly tipsy conversation between friends. But that has never stopped the internet from treating a Kardashian-Jenner dinner scene like a cultural document. One sentence becomes a theory. One look becomes a timeline. One joke becomes a group chat emergency.
And Kendall’s current dating life makes the juxtaposition even more irresistible. The model has been publicly associated with Jacob, while the show gives viewers a glimpse of her talking about dating, attraction and the appeal of simply opting out of men altogether. The result is less a scandal than a very polished reminder that celebrity relationships rarely arrive in chronological order for the audience.
A rumor gets downgraded to a punchline
What makes the scene feel unexpectedly modern is that Kendall does not perform panic. She does not issue a dramatic denial, and she does not appear eager to prove anything about herself. She answers the question, jokes about the possibility, names Cara in the hypothetical and then keeps drinking wine.
That tone matters. Public figures are often expected to explain the exact boundaries of their friendships, especially when those friendships are affectionate, glamorous and visible enough to become fan mythology. Kendall and Cara instead make the whole thing sound slightly ridiculous — not because attraction is ridiculous, but because the public’s need to classify every close relationship can be.
So, no, this is not a secret relationship reveal. It is not a confirmation of the rumor that has circulated around them. It is Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne having a very intimate, very funny conversation about the way strangers have been reading them for years.
Still, Kendall has now said that Cara is the woman she would choose, that Cara would be nice to her and that men are exhausting. In the ecosystem of celebrity television, that is more than enough to keep the group chat busy until the next episode.