Denise Richards won’t leave us alone. Her E! reality show “It’s Complicated” is coming back, and it was just announced that Denise will be hosting a couple of episodes of ghost-whisperer John Edward’s show. I know she’s not everybody’s favorite whackjob, but I find her funny, and I love “It’s Complicated”, so there. Suck it, haters. Team Denise. Actually, I barely care, but I do watch the show.

The New York Post’s Cindy Adams got an interview with Denise to talk spirituality, mediums and John Stamos. Let me just say that I actually dig the whole “medium” and “ghost-whispering” thing. I know most of these people are probably cranks, but I think the whole thing is cool and fun. I adore palm-readers, Tarot card readings, mentalists, all of it. Denise shares with Cindy her own story of how her late mother contacted her through a medium named Natalie. Through Natalie, Denise’s mom passed on a kid-friendly book on death and grieving, for Denise’s daughters.

DENISE Richards. Divorced single mom of two, star of “It’s Complicated,” her own E! reality series, and now — ta-da! — the host next month of psychic/medium/ spiritualist/mentalist/metaphysicist/cross-overist John Edward’s show.

And so I ever so politely said: You who feeds tabloids, who did Playboy, jazzed up “Dancing With the Stars,” married Charlie Sheen, dated Richie Sambora, pronounced John Stamos an all-time great lover, you are into divinity and otherworldliness?

“Well,” she said, “I’ve just become friendly with a psychic medium my mother met shortly before she passed on. I wanted to believe Mom was still around. I wanted a reading. I wanted to believe in some form of reincarnation. I need to think in whatever way I can that my mother is still with us.”

“Mother had had a reading with this Natalie, who, without knowing any of our family details, told my mother, ‘Your dad, your dog, your Aunt Birdie are waiting for you on the other side.’ She had knowledge of these people without any of us mentioning them.”

“Unknown to me, my mother had given Natalie a book for my two little ones. The book explains death. When she knew she was going, which was before I even knew she wouldn’t be around much longer, she wrote in it: ‘I’ve arrived in heaven and from here I’ll always watch over you as an angel.’ She gave the psychic this book to give to my girls, which Natalie subsequently did. We’re now friends. And I have that book safely locked up.”

“I believe all of us on Earth eventually go somewhere and that guardian angels do exist. Raised Catholic, I’ve started church again and taken Lola and Sammy to be baptized. I desperately have wanted a message from my mother, and I want to hold onto anything which will make that happen. I’ve told her to stay in contact with me even if she has to talk to me only through Natalie.”

OK, I got it. But one earthy terrestrial this-world question. Is John Stamos really the greatest lover you ever had?

“No,” laughed Denise. “I never said he was the greatest. I just said, ‘He’s great.’ “

[From Cindy Adams, The New York Post]

I bet John Stamos is good in bed, and I’m glad Denise confirmed my suspicions. In interviews Stamos seems a bit naughty, a bit needy, and like he might bite you in a good way. Perfect. Of course, he also looks like he might cry occasionally in bed. Not cool. Is anyone else surprised that Denise and Stamos used to have a thing? I had never heard that. They so don’t seem like each other’s types. But I suppose good sex makes strange bedfellows, or whatever.

Denise Richards is shown at A time for Heroes celebrity carnival in LA on 6/6/09. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures. John Stamos is shown at the Tony Awards on 6/6/09. Credit: RAM/Fame Pictures. Header of Richards on 12/31/08 and Stamos on 6/6/09. Credit: PRPhotos