Actress Denise Richards has been granted a temporary domestic violence restraining order against her estranged ex-husband, and she’s spilling the shocking details.
Court documents filed on Wednesday claim Aaron Phypers, 52, allegedly threatened to kill Richards if she went to the police.
“Throughout our relationship, Aaron would frequently violently choke me, violently squeeze my head with both hands, tightly squeeze my arms, violently slap me in my face and head, aggressively slam my head into the bathroom towel rack,” the actress revealed, according to TMZ.
Disturbing photos of Richards sporting a severely blackened eye appear to corroborate her claims of domestic violence.
Denise Richards has been granted a temporary domestic violence restraining order against her estranged husband Aaron Phypers after accusing him of physical and verbal abuse #RHOBH pic.twitter.com/kysXGDPOD1
— Dorinda Deadly (@dorindadeadly) July 17, 2025
“The ‘Real Housewives’ alum says Aaron severely bruised her eye in an alleged attack from 2022. Denise claims she and Aaron were at his workplace in Malibu when he ‘became paranoid’ the potted plants he brought in ‘contained listening devices.’ She alleges he then struck her in the eye with the heel of his palm while calling her a ‘f**king bitch,'” the outlet reported.
She also claims Phypers went ballistic when she suggested he not come on a work trip with her. In response to this, she writes he “grabbed me by the back of my head by my hair and slammed me into the ground and screamed, ‘You are not cancelling my flight, I am going with you and I do not trust you.'”
In an instance of abuse that reportedly took place as recently as July, Phypers demanded access to the actress’s phone. When she declined, he allegedly “aggressively marched towards me, squeezed my arm extremely tight and aggressively,” and made the demand again.
Richards responded by threatening to involve authorities, to which she says he replied, “I would like to see the cops take me away, I will blow everything up if they try.”
She claims that she fears for her life, alleging that her estranged husband possesses “at least 8 unregistered guns,” TMZ reported.
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