Denise Richards is back shooting The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, where insiders say she’s finding little sympathy from most of her castmates, who hate her guts and are miffed that she’s stealing the spotlight with her dirty divorce from Aaron Phypers.
Denise, 54, was front and center when she was spotted shooting scenes for the Bravo reality series with costars Sutton Stracke and Erika Jayne at L.A.’s Madre eatery Aug. 2, per Page Six.
“People like Sutton and Erika are going along with it on the surface — they came out in support of Denise in her divorce — but behind the scenes they’re griping, too,” says an insider. “They all find it annoying that Denise is throwing herself around and bringing in all the drama again while trying to be queen bee.”
But show bigwigs are jumping with joy at being able to use the shocking dirt Denise and Aaron, 52, are bombarding each other with to boost the show’s audience and ratings.
While she claims Aaron’s a violent beater, he says she’s a cheater, boozer and Vicodin junkie and got a black eye when she fell on the stairs drunk, according to TMZ.
“The stories were so lurid that bosses just had to get her back on,” says the source. “The show calls for these big heavy storylines — it needs to be edgy. RHOBH may be the most watched of the Housewives shows, but the fact remains the ratings are still down and the whole franchise is sliding off a cliff.”
“Producers are desperate to save it, and Denise’s drama with Aaron proved too irresistible to pass up.”
As the National Enquirer has reported, Denise is accusing Aaron of physical abuse during their six-year marriage, charging she was afraid to report it because he allegedly threatened to kill her and himself if she went to the cops.
Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife also accuses dirty-dog Aaron of leaking nude photos of her to the media.
Meanwhile, her attention-stealing divorce has her costars stewing.
“Most of the Beverly Hills gals aren’t happy about it,” insists the source. “Denise burned a lot of bridges the last time she was on, and the ladies thought she was too much drama and a pain in the butt, not to mention self-serving and whiny.
“Now here she is stealing all the headlines again.”
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