Denise Richards is finished staying silent.
The “Wild Things” actress, 54, revealed in a brand new interview with Those who she was sexually harassed early in her profession, and didn’t converse out on the time as a result of “I was told I would be blacklisted.”
“I felt so vulnerable,” she recalled within the interview. “This was the career I wanted to do. To be told that you’re never going to work in an industry that you are passionate about, it’s a hard thing.”
Richards’ performing profession started within the early Nineteen Nineties. She acquired her huge breaks within the movies “Starship Troopers,” “Wild Things” and “The World Is Not Enough,” the place she performed a Bond lady.
“I am glad that women are able to have more of a voice and be more protected,” mentioned Richards, noting the impression of the #MeToo motion that began in 2017.
“If that happened at this age, I would handle it differently, but I was so young and an unknown and [just] starting out,” she added.
After starring on two seasons of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” Richards is returning to actuality TV along with her personal Bravo present, “Denise Richards & Her Wild Things.” The upcoming sequence additionally options her husband, Aaron Phypers, and her three daughters, Sami, 20, Lola, 19, and Eloise, 13.
“I look at my daughters doing our show and being such strong women,” Richards informed Individuals. “If I had that, I think I would’ve been able to handle it a little differently.”
She continued, “I wish I had the confidence that they have because I would never be able to stand out for myself the way they do didn’t, and I’m so proud of them. I’m so proud that they say what’s on their mind.”
The “Drop Dead Gorgeous” actress additionally admitted that she was “such a people pleaser” when she began within the enterprise.
“And I love that my girls, this early in their career, that they’re able to [speak up],” the mother of three shared. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘You might want to tone it down,’ but for the most part I’m glad that they’re able to say [what’s on their mind.] I wish I was able to back then.”
Richards shares her two older daughters along with her ex-husband Charlie Sheen. She adopted Eloise as a single mother in 2013.
Throughout a latest interview on Bravo’s “Hot Mic” podcast, Richards teased a shock look from Sheen, 59, in her new present.
“Nobody has ever seen Charlie and I after our divorce sitting in a room talking,” she defined. “I think that’s one of the things that I love that we were able to capture was us having that moment of sharing that.”
The previous couple had been married from 2002 to 2005. Richards tied the knot with Phypers, 52, in 2018.
“Denise Richards & Her Wild Things” premieres March 4 on Bravo.
