Denise Richards LIFE IS A DRAMA!

DESPITE HER UPS AND DOWNS, THE STAR IS HAPPY WHERE SHE IS TODAY

- Kylie Walters

Playing Shauna on long-running soap The Bold and the Beautiful, Denise Richards is used to having a little scandal in her life. But none of her on-screen antics could help prepare the 50-year-old for the real-life drama she’d still be experiencing with ex-husband Charlie Sheen, 15 years after their split.

Since the pair parted ways in 2006, their relationship has continued to be rocky. But after winding up back in court, the Wild Things star says Sheen, 56, has gone a step too far and is “manipulating” their daughters Sami, 17, and Lola, 16 (Richards also has an adopted 10-year-old daughter, Eloise) to turn against her.

Richards was left “blindsided” by a court ruling on October 4 changing Sheen’s child support payments to “zero dollars a month” after Sami moved back in with him.

“Now he’s manipulating the situation. Lola does not live with Charlie. She lives with both of her parents and stays with Charlie when Denise is out of town,” an insider tells WHO’s sister publication People magazine. “This is very disappointing for Denise, but also not surprising. Charlie is pitting the girls against their mother, which is horrible,” the insider adds.