Denise Richards’ daughter Sami Sheen dished out advice on dealing with toxic relationships — one day before her stepdad, Aaron Phypers, filed for divorce from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum.
“If you’re dating someone toxic, but you don’t really know if they’re toxic, deep down you know but you’re like, ‘Is it that bad? I can look past this. Well he’s so good to me some days but then other days he treats me like s***,’” Sheen, 21, said in a Sunday, July 6, TikTok. “You need to ask yourself, if you had a daughter and she was dating a man like this, what would you tell her?”
She continued, “And then, boom. You’re like, ‘OK, I would tell her to breakup with him, block him, move on, like he’s a piece of s***, treats her like s***.’ I don’t know, that works for me because sometimes it’s so easy for me to overlook everything. But if I’m imagining having a kid and she’s getting treated like this, absolutely the f*** not.”
Sheen noted that she’s a “motherly person” who has a desire to have children, so this mindset works for her — however, she encourages others to envision having a friend or mother in this scenario.
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“Picturing someone else in your exact situation, and if they came to you being like, ‘Hey, my boyfriend is doing x, y and z to me, I need your advice.’ You need to tell them what to do and then there’s your answer,” she said.
She continued, “I understand more than anyone it is so hard and almost feels impossible sometimes to get out of a toxic relationship and the judgement from people when you keep going back to that person. It’s a whole cycle. So I understand it’s not easy but this is just a tip to kind of help you have a clear head a little bit.”
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Sheen wrote over the video, “My advice on how to remove the rose colored glasses in a toxic relationship.” She captioned the clip with a single red heart emoji.
One day after Sheen posted the TikTok, Phypers filed for divorce from Richards and listed the pair’s date of separation as Friday, July 4. In court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Monday, July 7, Phypers cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their split.
While Phypers noted that he and Richards do not share any minor children, he listed daughter Eloise as his stepchild in the court docs. (Richards adopted Eloise in 2011.)
Us Weekly has reached out to Phypers and Richards for comment.
Richards was previously married to Charlie Sheen from 2002 to 2006. The exes are parents to daughters Sami and Lola, 20.
