Aaron Phypers, the estranged husband of Denise Richards, has countered the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star’s abuse allegations with a shocking claim of his own. Just days after Richards, 54, accused Phyper, 52, of repeated physical abuse, the businessman now says his wife is concealing years of substance abuse and “needs an intervention.” In a letter to friends and family that Phypers later sent to Page Six, he wrote that Richards has spent “nearly a decade [struggling] with an addiction to Vicodin (which she jokingly calls ‘Vitamin D’ or ‘white chestnuts’), mixed with Adderall and tequila.” Phypers also claimed he’d witnessed the actress, whom he married in 2018, “pass out from substances… including while driving with our daughter.” Phypers adopted Richards’ daughter Eloise, 14, in 2019. The couple’s explosive separation became public on July 7, when Phypers filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences.” Ten days later, Richards obtained a temporary restraining order after accusing her husband of physical abuse. Phypers has strongly denied the allegations, instead claiming in his letter that Richards had “physically attacked” both him and one of her daughters. He has also repeatedly claimed he filed for divorce after discovering Richards was having a long-running affair. Richards was formerly married to Charlie Sheen, with whom she had two children, daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 20. Sheen had his own battle with drug and alcohol addiction.
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