Denise Richards’ daughters Sami and Lola Sheen fight hard but love harder.
“Things now are OK,” Sami, 20, exclusively shared with Us Weekly before the Tuesday, March 4, premiere of Denise Richards and Her Wild Things. “I mean, obviously, we still fight like sisters do, but we’re at a much better place. We have each other unblocked now. We followed each other back on Instagram. I think we’re at a good place.”
According to Sami and Lola, 19, — whose dad is Richards’ ex-husband Charlie Sheen — they didn’t communicate with each other via the social media platform for nearly a year.
“It was terrible,” Lola told Us before giving credit to the family’s reality show for helping mend fences. “It forced us to obviously be around each other and then just the interviews and stuff. I can breathe again now that we’re talking.”
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While viewers will have to tune in to see what led to the challenging dynamic between Sami and Lola, Richards, 54, believes the reality show served as a “great bonding experience” for her girls. (The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star also adopted Eloise, 13, in 2011.)
“This is their first show as adults and they’re going through it together,” Richards explained. “They have each other. They’re doing all this press together for the first time. I think that’s something else that I think is really wonderful that they’re able to bond over too.”
If things do get tense between Sami and Lola, Richards said she tries her best not to pick a side. After all, she knows what it’s like to experience life’s ups and downs with a sister.
“I try to step in, but often, they tell me to stay out of it, and I try to reassure them,” she revealed. “My sister and I are 18 months apart. They’re 15 months apart. We are very close too — my sister and I — but we’ve definitely had our differences over the years and I just tell the girls, ‘It might seem like a big thing now, but as you get a little older, it’s going to be, like, why were we even fighting about that?’”
Richards’ new reality show will capture the actress as she navigates being an actress, wife to Aaron Phyphers and mother in the public eye.
Along the way, viewers will be treated to cameos from familiar faces like her former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills costars and Charlie, 59.
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“I wanted us to just live our life,” Richards said when explaining the goal of the show. “At the end of the day, I’m a mom that deals with challenges like a lot of other parents dealing with kids that are siblings and trying to let your kids grow up and be on their own. I think that there’s a lot in our show, a lot of things that a lot of people can relate to.”
Denise Richards and Her Wild Things premieres on Bravo Tuesday, March 4, at 9 p.m. ET. Viewers can stream episodes the next day on Peacock.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
