Brooke and Charlie with Max and Bob in November, 2011
Yesterday we discussed a new interview that Charlie Sheen did with TMZ. Charlie trashed his ex wife, Brooke Mueller, and the California Department of Child and Family Services, for granting Brooke overnight visits with their four year-old twin boys. Charlie claimed that Brooke was surprisingly not sober after her 21st stint in rehab (that he paid for), and that she was emotionally damaging and physically endangering their children, Max and Bob. According to Charlie, his sons are acting out at school and at their primary home, with his ex, Denise Richards. He claimed that the twins’ bad behavior is a direct result of spending time with their addict mom. (Takes one to know one, right?) He is also seeking full custody.
Charlie’s interview was filled with his typical hyperbole and grandiosity. He called Brooke an “evil whore” who lived in a “house of horrors,” and claimed that DCFS must be taking bribes from Brooke. The reports from DCFS have been in Brooke’s favor and are “glowing.” Very suspiciously, right after Charlie made those accusations public, DCFS denied him scheduled visitation with the boys. It seemed punitive on their part.
Brooke is not taking Charlie’s claims lightly. She sought an emergency restraining order against Charlie, which was denied. She was told to make her case in front of a judge next month. In her petition for a restraining order, Brooke claimed that she’s been sober for seven months, that Charlie is angry she hasn’t relapsed, and that he’s trying to keep her boys staying with Denise Richards:
RadarOnline.com has confirmed Mueller, 36, failed in a bid on Monday to have the actor barred from going anywhere near her.
Her petition cited Sheen as saying: “There will be a reckoning. There will be a whirlwind. That they will all reap desperate begging for my forgiveness. You’ve all been warned….I will exercise every resource at my disposal. I will, I will, I will empty my entire war chest and if that can’t get it done, I know a guy who can.”
Mueller also claimed that she has been clean for over seven months and is trying to lead a life of sobriety for their two children.
“I have struggled with addiction. I successfully completed a lengthy in-patient rehabilitation this year and I have been substance free for seven months,” she said in documents.
“I have reached out repeatedly to Charlie Sheen seeking that we find peace for the sake of our children over the past seven month only to be told, “lose my number douche bag.” Petitioner is seriously upset that I am in recovery and have successfully maintained my sobriety. I am doing so for our children and myself. I love our children more than anyone can imagine. I am fighting for them everyday. I do not want them to have two severely drug addicted parents.
“Charlie Sheen is furious that I am doing so well, he had hoped I would relapse in order to continue his long sought quest to have all his children under one roof with his former wife.”
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge refused to issue an emergency restraining order against the Anger Management star and instead set a hearing for next month, where the rehabbed socialite will have to make her case in person.
Charlie made that veiled threat about emptying his “war chest” at the end of his interview with TMZ, it’s all there for people to hear.
Brooke isn’t stopping with just a restraining order request. She’s also claiming that Charlie violated the gag order in their divorce decree, and that he should face jail time and reduced visitation with the boys. TMZ has a follow-up report revealing that Brooke’s lawyer has subpoenaed their video and audio interviews with Charlie to use for her case.
As little as two years ago, maybe more recently, Charlie and Brooke were still drugging together around their boys. Check out this ET interview we covered at the time, they were both wasted on camera talking about their amicable coparenting.
I don’t know where to start with this. This does change my opinion of Brooke very slightly, but it doesn’t make me believe that she’s a competent mom by any stretch. The damage that she and Charlie have already done to these boys is likely irreparable and they’re surely better off with Denise, even if Brooke is telling the truth and she’s sober. I don’t understand how Brooke is getting unsupervised overnight visits at this point. It seems like a monitor should be present.
As many of you mentioned yesterday, when Charlie starts going to the press and rallying against something, it’s a sign that he’s drugging. Even if Brooke is sober (doubtful, but let’s pose that scenario), and even if Charlie is blitzed, that doesn’t mean that Charlie’s basic premise is wrong. Brooke has been a sh*t mom for years. If she’s truly sober, that doesn’t mean she’s transformed into a good mom or that being around her is healthy for the twins. And in no way would I suggest that Charlie’s house is a great place for kids either. At least they have Denise Richards to care for them in a stable, loving environment. Hopefully the judge will recognize that both parents are incompetent and that the boys should stay with Denise.
Plus, let’s not forget Brooke’s motivation. If she gets custody, she gets $55,000 a month in child support. She’s tried and failed several times to have the boys transferred to her family’s care for that purpose.
After I wrote all that, Radar released more details of Brooke’s restraining order. She claims to have hired round-the-clock security and to fear for her safety after Sheen said he would post his own security guards outside her home when the boys were there. Remember Denise Richards’ divorce decree against Charlie Sheen and how everyone thought she was exaggerating? The difference is that Denise is much more credible.
Brooke Mueller is shown in January and February, 2013. I didn’t pick the worst paparazzi pictures of her, these are just the most recent ones we have. Credit: FameFlynet and WENN.com
21 stints in rehab? Tell me that’s a typo!
Nope that’s accurate.
It seems unreal, doesn’t it? Hopefully number 21 was the charm.
They are both toxic to each other and to their kids. I feel bad for the kids.
21 stints in rehab. At what point do DCFS say “hmm, maybe we should revisit your case for custody after a year of sober living?” Seriously. Glad she can get a 22nd chance but maybe there needs to be a time limit set before she can start applying for custody. I totally believe she wants the child support payments, not the boys. Give the devil his due – Charlie at least is cognizant that the boys are better with Denise than either of them. Edit: i think the clean for 7 months comment includes her stint in rehab. I still think she needs to be clean for a year outside of rehab.
This is just such a mess. At least Charlie knows that all his kids are better off with Denise.
Let’s just hope the court feels the same way. Denise has been the only one to provide a consistant healthy, nurturing, loving environment for those boys and since she didn’t seek out extra child support from Charlie, is clearly not in it for the money.
In the absence of probate law, these kids would have been permanently with Denise. That is obviously where they belong. It is gross that the court system can be used to wrest kids away from a loving, stable home. The best home for a child within a family is not always with the biological parents. And family doesn’t always mean biological relationships. These poor babies.
I just read a report saying Denise wants OUT of the arrangement because the boys are violent and unpredictable.
New development, Daily Mail is reporting the boys are dangerous and violent, picking up Denise’s dogs by the throat while they are struggling and whimpering and beating on the girls, so Denise says she can’t keep them anymore. I am very upset hearing this. Charlie is clearly again off the rails and drugging, and wants to keep taking advantage of Denise but not everything and everybody can be sorted in this insane scenario. Also, nobody is going to listen to anything Charlie says at this point and he’s making everything far worse than it already is. I sort of feel like the parents of the parents should maybe step in right about now because it’s gotten that desperate. These poor boys – they have probably inherited some tendencies from their parents and might have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome as well. 🙁
For all of Sheen’s faults (and there are millions), at the very least he does seem to know that he isn’t fit to care for his children. As much progress as Brooke may have made (giving her the benefit of the doubt), history shows that her risk of relapse is insanely high and it seems better for the boys to just stay with Denise while she gets on her feet. 7 months clean doesn’t mean much when you’ve been in rehab TWENTY-ONE TIMES.
Did anyone else notice that Brooke stated “Charlie wants all of his kids under one roof.” Does that point the fact that the little girl that Denise adopted is in fact Charlie’s? I wouldn’t be surprised if she was and that kinda sounded like Brooke letting the cat out of the bag.
That’s been the rumor from the get-go, and I don’t think the wording is accidental.
[It could easily be a lie, but Brooke has to have heard the rumors, too, so she could have phrased it that way either to confirm or just to dig at Charlie.]
No, all his 4 minor children are with Denise now. Saying he wants all his kids under one roof doesn’t mean all the kids under that roof are his. Denise went through normal channels to adopt her third, the older sisters were involved in the decision and choosing a name. It wasn’t a sudden move. Doesn’t mean the rumor can’t be true, but Brooke’s statement doesn’t mean anything about it.
No sympathy here from me for Brooke. She wants that $.
At least Chuck knows his kids are better off with Denise.
He’s not helping his case or the situation at all, with the threats. He’s sounding dangerous.
Lady, if you’ve done 21 stints of rehab and nothing has helped, time to give the kids to Denise. There’s kids involved now.
Who says nothing has helped? She says she’s been clean for 7 months. You can’t say to a mother, “Time to give your kids away.” If she’s working to get to a good place for her kids, then she definitely should be able to continue her relationship with them. And once she proves she’s in a good place to the court, which clearly she is doing, then she’ll have them again. I’d believe a court report or a child services report over the raving lunatic that is Charlie Sheen.
21 stints in rehab says nothing has helped, and 7 months sober is just a drop in the bucket…7 years would be something to brag about.
At this point in time, give the kids to Denise, if Brooke continues passing random drug test then allow for day-time visitation permanently. No more over nights, ever. This woman completely threw away her rights to her children a long time ago ( somewhere between visit number 17-20 of rehab). She’s proven time and again that drugs mean more to her than her children.
At least with Denise they’re getting some kind of stability.
There is a difference between getting her kids back and having a relationship with them. She can have a relationship with them (just like Charlie does now) while they are living with Denise. Sadly, 21 trips to rehab before the age of 40 speaks for itself.
The issue here is that if this were anyone else, those kids would have permanently been taken away… 21 stints in rehab. It’s a lot & this is not the first time Denise has cared for these boys. It is the first time they were officially placed with her by DCFS & it probably won’t be the last because they are going to allow Brooke to have the kids back before she has shown that she is sober and stable for any length of time.
It’s not so clear that Brooke is in a good place. Not so clear at all. Her declarations are just that – an addict with an agenda. It would take more like seven years of dead sobriety to make any impression of sobriety, not just her saying so. It’s not like she has no reasons to lie her ass off as she has always done.
Unfortunately for her, with 21 stints in rehab I’m not going to believe her clean and sober. I find it hard to believe the state would allow either parent to have those children, both are crazy. Poor kids.
In that hat/glass photo she kind of looks like Melissa Etheridge.
That’s it! At first I thought she resembled Marcia Brady, but it’s definitely Melissa. Good eye, blue marie!
I doubt she will stay clean based on her history, but if she IS clean NOW, I would hire security and want a restraining order against CS too. He was incredibly stupid for saying what he did, but he said it and I don’t for a second doubt that he would do something really nasty to her to get what he wants. When you couple his boatloads of money with his nasty, volatile, vicious personality, I think anything is possible. Sadly though, I think all he needs to do is give her a big child support check and then wait for her to start using again. Ugh. What a mess.
Completely repulsed by the pair of them. And to think, Entertainment Tonight had a hand in selling these two as stable way back when the boys were born.
Flagrant whitewash… and now, the incessant mudslinging from these two major pieces of dirt.
I think the difference here is that Brooke is obviously a drug addict….but Charlie is a drug addict AND a narcissistic schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur. The children are better off with Denise!!!!
My ex is exactly like Charlie Sheen….inflated ego, rantings and ravings, threatening behavior….and then denies ever saying it, or acts like he didn’t mean it. And no matter who he is fighting with, the OTHER person is the crazy one.
Ugh. Glad he is your ‘ex’ and not your ‘current.’
“The children are better off with Denise!!!!” Jules, I couldn’t agree more! IMO, Charlie has an abusive history with women, and seems to be a ticking time bomb like your ex. Below are the incidents that we know about:
In 1996, Sheen’s girlfriend Brittany Ashland said he pulled her hair, slammed her to the marble floor, and knocked her unconscious. Afterward, she said Charlie asked her to strip off her blood stained clothes and threatened to kill her if Ashland breathed a word of his assault to anyone. Her split lip required 7 stitches to close the wound.
On Dec. 27, 2005, Denise Richards said after she confronted Charlie Sheen for frequenting websites featuring “very young girls, who looked underage to me”, and “gay pornography also involving very young men who did not look like adults”, he hit her wrist and shoved her in the stomach. Denise claims Sheen said”if I revealed anything about his lifestyle, ‘You won’t lay your head down at night.’ I understood this to mean that he would kill me.”
On Christmas Day 2009, Brooke reported to police that Sheen pinned her to a bed and held a knife to her throat after she told Sheen that she wanted a divorce. A knife with a four-inch blade locked in the open position was located by police in Sheen’s travel bag.
In November 2010, escort Capri Anderson told cops Sheen tried to strangle her in a hotel and that she was forced to lock herself in the bathroom to get away.
My conclusions:
1. Both Charlie and Brooke are addicts.
2. Brooke probably used during her pregnancy.
3. Denise should be awarded PERMANENT custody of ALL the children.
4. Please God/The Universe save those poor children!
Let’s not forget the time Charlie “accidentally” shot Kelly Preston.
And the Kelly Preston incident where she got shot, I think . . .
I’m sorry to hear you have an ex like that Jules but glad he is gone.
Now I have been under the impression, that Charlie did not have physical custody of the boys either. He had visitation rights. But the children were Denise’s legal responsibility. They lived with her. Period. That Charlie had to come to her house for his visits.
And that Brooke never lost that $55,000 a month.
Charlie wanted to stop paying her. But the court would not allow it.
Even with the boys in Denise’s home. Charlie not only got to pay for that 21st trip to rehab. He had to continue to pay out the child support. And pay for Brooke’s house. And Denise made it clear, she did not need any more cash from Charlie. To support the boys than what she was already getting for her girls.
And the few pictures I have seen of Brooke in the last 6 months. Sober is not the word I would have used for her appearance. She still look like a hot mess.
Radon Online says his support payments were cut in half while Brooke was in rehab. Here’s the link: http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/09/charlie-sheen-child-support-brooke-mueller-cut-in-half/
Is the house part of child support or alimony? As to the rehabs, he picked her, probably based on a mutual appreciation of partying with drugs, to the extreme. Now he has to pay the piper for thinking (or not thinking at all that) she’d make a fabulous mother for his children. I think Denise deserves the child support money since she is actually caring for children, but I still don’t have sympathy for Sheen. He seems to be getting a pass, since he is self-aware enough to know he can’t care for his kids. How many trips to rehab has he done in the name of attempting to get custody? How is it cool that pawning off his children to another person is demonstrating responsibility? I don’t get that. I don’t think either of them are healthy. I don’t think one is better than the other. Neither of them are being parents. They were probably a perfect match. If he really cared, he would get custody and then he wouldn’t have to pay support.
What’s really sad is this seems to be all about the money. Brooke doesn’t want to lose her child support, and maybe Charlie is tired of paying it? (Frankly, I would be, too, if the kids were in someone else’s custody.) What a sad situation for those boys. Of course they’re acting out!
It’s about the money for Charlie too.
She’s as sober as a judge (a judge dancing naked in the courthouse fountain after the holiday party).
This woman dresses like an imbecile.
Ummm, 7 months? Didn’t she go into rehab basically with (or followed, if you will) Lindsay Lohan? Does that timeline even match up?
And either way, for a hard-core, lifelong addict of hard drugs – including some serious things like using during pregnancy and using around her kids – 7 months is a blink of an eye. Her sobriety would be so fragile there’s utterly no way she would be ready to try for custody of h kids. 21 times in rehab.
Here’s the thing: Charlie never stopped drugging. Hasn’t he gone on record saying that it’s okay, that he can handle it himself? The issue isn’t that he gets out of control so much as he turns into an utter a-hole. And he chooses women with suspect pasts that he can whitewash, and then turn on them when he’s done. Stick with your hookers, Charlie, it’s better for everyone.
Not to mention the stress of raising two twin boys (possibly with behavioral issues). Assuming she, and not nannies, do the raising. I don’t drink or do drugs but sometimes by the end of a long day with my two kids, I’m about ready to pull my hair out. I can’t imagine someone with lifelong sobriety issues handling that kind of stress well.
I’m pretty sure it was reported in some of the earlier stuff that Brooke has almost nothing to do with actually raising the kids. The nannies pretty much took care of them 24/7.
Bridget – Kids are very intuitive, though. If their mother is off the rails, they WILL act out. I remember having a very stressful job when my son was a toddler and if I brought that stress home with me, he would immediately start acting out, crying, not sleeping, etc. Little children are very in tune with their mothers. Not to mention that she probably used when she was pregnant; if she’s been in rehab 21 times, I doubt she was able to stop cold turkey for 9+ months.
Those poor kids. I’m glad that they have someplace stable and loving to be in the midst of all of this.
While I don’t think Brooke is in any way ready to take care of her kids, and I can’t make a judgement about whether or not she wants custody solely for the money, I am beyond disgusted at Charlie Sheen calling her an evil whore, language that he lobbied at Denise Richards in the past when they were divorcing.
The appalling hypocrisy of him judging ANYONE’S parenting skills is vomit inducing. Where was all this concern for the twin’s well being when he installed his porn star fuck buddies in his crack den to look after his kids? Where was it when he left them behind so go on his temper tantrum crazy train around the country to babble incoherently about the injustice he suffered because his bosses at Two and a Half Men canned him for being coked out, lazy and incompetent?
By no means do I give her a free pass-she let her addiction overshadow her responsibilities as a parent and her kids have suffered, probably in ways that aren’t even obvious yet. But Charlie Sheen can fuck off with the demonizing. He is a disgusting person with an ugly soul and always will be. She may not be “winning” the fight against addiction, but at least she isn’t behaving as if it’s some giant giggle and that she doesn’t need help.
+1
I agree that Charlie’s basically a lost cause of a human being… But Brooke’s AWFUL as well. Those children are her ATM. I honestly doubt she would be fighting for custody if she wasn’t flat broke. Did you read any of the stuff about her parenting? It’s horrible and she has no business being around those children unless she manages to get her act together for a long, long, long time.
She’s so foul.
Give the kids to Denise. Sterilize Brooke and Charlie. Done. He should have never had more kids
Agreed.
Sober for 7 months? Didn’t she go through 3 rehab facilities over the summer? She was at one, went to the one Lindsay Lohan was in once she found out LL was there, then left that one when the rehab asked her to do things, like make her bed. At best it’s been 4 ish months.
Was Brooke required to take a drug test before she was allowed unsupervised overnight visits with her kids? They could clear up the sober/not sober issue quickly if she submits to regular drug tests. Neither Brooke nor Charlie are competent parents. Charlie seems to recognize this and the kids are with Denise. Brooke either thinks she is a good parent or wants them for the child support. Is she wealthy in her own right? I seem to remember that she is related to Paris Hilton in some way.
“Brooke either thinks she is a good parent or wants them for the child support”
I believe it’s the latter more than the former. If she thinks she is a good parent, she is still doing drugs…If she were sober, she would know the difference.
That’s a nice statement…her lawyer wrote. Seriously we all know that right?
I believe more than ever the rumours that the boys have developmental issues. 21 stints in rehab?!
I wish there was a way judges could make rich parents pay for those supervised visits instead of sticking it to taxpayers.
Charlie makes an insane amount of money, so he pays an insane amount of taxes. I’m sure the money he’s paid in taxes more than covers the supervised visits. Not defending him or anything, cause seriously, he is one crazy SOB.
Let’s also not forget that if Brooke gets the kids back, Charlie has to pay her $55,000 a month–if the kids stay with Denise, he gets off considerably cheaper. And that’s exactly where I personally feel his new-found concern about his kids comes from–the money. As does hers in wanting the kids back. Douche bags, both of them.
Denise has been nice so far in not demanding more money for the boys, but if she got them on a perm basis, do you think she would still be that way? Maybe she is just that nice.
Those poor, poor boys. SMH
If she is sober it’s probably because she hasn’t had all that cash coming in. As soon as the kids come back and she has the money again things will, sadly, probably go back to how they were.
Update: TMZ is reporting that Denise is no longer going to care for the kids because they are so violent. Hurting dogs and her kids. Poor kids, they never had a chance.
Didn’t Charlie say they’ve become so violent the school may not want them either? I think he is trying to make his case that the kids should not have overnight stay at Brooke’s house.
According to TMZ, Denise may not want the boys any longer either – they sound like they’ve become little horrors. Neither parent is fit. Poor kids…
I don’t believe it. I think even if it were true she would be bringing these little boys somewhere to get help, she would never abandon them. This is TMZ and they are not the most reliable of sources. Until I hear it from either Denise or Charlie I call this b.s.
I do believe it. It’s scary. What can you do if kids are little evil monsters? You tell them to be good. But they don.t listen and torture animals and being brats. And they are not even Denise’s kids. She can’t do anything with them. I emmidately remember all those crime shows or movies where sociopath children were murdering someone and then law did not know what to do with them. It’s easy to judge from gossip sites. But it’s another to be in Denise’s body. And try to deal with kids when they do all those things that TMZ wrote. How can you stop them? Everyone think that she should just love them and tell them to stop and they will. BUt in real world that is not how it happens.
@ Dawn
Believe it. Denise has written a very long letter to DCFS saying she can no longer care for the twins because they have become too violent. (The details in the letter are terrifying.) In the letter, Denise also says she has tried to get psychological help for the children, but Brooke keeps blocking her attempts to do so.
The new TMZ story about the letter Denise sent the court explains why Charlie said what he said. The boys are dangerously abusive to animals, their sisters, and now other students and teachers in school. Denise says she can’t handle them any more and that their behavior problems are clearly linked to visits with Brooke. Charlie needs to hire 24/7 personal skilled supervision for them at the very least. Something is happening at Brooke’s house or else seeing her is triggering very bad memories. They also may have been damaged in the womb if she was drinking and drugging during pregnancy. It sounds like a nightmare for everybody. The boys have openly said things like they want to kill the dog. That is not normal and is very very dangerous for everybody around them.
Agree!
I don’t recall Charlie being so against an ex like he is against Brooke right now. But someone, please, correct me if I am wrong, I rarely follow stories about him.
If she has not stopped doing drugs (or if she is back using them) , there is a possibility the kids being exposed to them as well. I am surprised that with her past history, she gets unsupervised overstay of her kids.