Actress and ex-wife of Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards has vowed to always be there for the actor, following his disclosure that he’s HIV positive and was diagnosed four years ago.
She explained, while appearing on the podcast, ‘Allegedly With Theo Von and Matthew Cole Weiss’: ‘It’s up and down. I’m always here, but he’s an addict. I believe we move past your s**t. Don’t sweat the small stuff. For better or worse, he’s going to be in my life for the rest of my life so I personally like to keep the peace.’
The former couple got engaged in December 2001, and married in June, 2002. After having two daughters together, the actress filed for divorce, accusing Sheen of alcohol, drug abuse and threats of violence in 2005. But the divorce was finalised in November 2006.
She continued: ‘Charlie, when I married him, he wasn’t a bad boy. He was sober for almost four years. He was a very different person. His lifestyle was very, very different. He was a former bad boy, I guess.
‘I have a lot of empathy for anyone that struggles with addiction. I’m not going to judge the choices they made under the influence. I can only judge the person I’m meeting and I think sometimes past experiences make who you are so I just went off the person I had met and gotten to know and fell in love with. He was very different.’
