Denise Richards Reveals Her Daughters 'Were Very Upset' She Joined Special Forces: 'They Were Afraid' (Exclusive)

Denise Richards reveals what she did to get on her daughters’ bad side!

The 53-year-old actress recently spoke with PEOPLE about her participation in the upcoming season Special forces: the toughest test in the world, and shared how her three children reacted to the news.

Explaining that the series mimics the challenges of military-style survival, Richards says her daughters Sami, 20, Lola, 19, and Eloise, 13, tried to talk her out of joining.

“My daughters were very upset,” he admits. “They didn’t want me to do it. They were afraid that I would get hurt or killed, but in fact they were very angry. It was the first time in all the times I’ve been doing different projects or traveling that they were really angry with me.”

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Denise Richards and her daughter Sami Sheen.

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Still, Richards says she wanted to take the risk and push her own limits, despite being nervous.

“I’m not athletic at all – everyone used to intimidate me so much,” explains Richards. “I didn’t know who was going to be there, but I heard there were athletes and I couldn’t compete with that. But that’s also the biggest thing, because it’s not about competing against anyone but yourself, and that’s why they strip us raw, physically and mentally and emotionally and all of that.”

“I thought, ‘This is the most challenging thing I’ll ever do, so why not do it?'” she adds. “I was terrified, but once I committed to doing it, I was there.”

Richards shares her older daughters, Sami and Lola, with her ex-husband Charlie Sheen. She later adopted Eloise in 2011, and her current husband, Aaron Phypers, began the process of legally adopting Eloise after their surprise wedding in Malibu in 2018.

Denise Richards rides a zipline with her daughter Lola Sheen.

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Fans will get a deeper look at Richards’ relationship with her children in her new reality show, Denise Richards and the Wild Things. In August, she joined Tori Spelling on it wrong SPELLING podcast to talk about what to expect from Hey! series.

“So this was a long time coming, and we all talked about it because I wanted to make sure the girls really wanted to do it,” Richards said, adding that the show puts the family in a position to “open up [their] live.”

“We’re doing it right now and trying to navigate it all,” she continued, saying the girls are “excited about it.”

Denise Richards attends the 2024 FOX Winter Press Day at the Fox Studio Lot on November 18, 2024 in Los.

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“We had several meetings,” he said Drop Dead Gorgeous said the star. “I was really proud of the girls because they were asking so many questions that now they really wanted to be a part of.”

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The news comes 16 years after Richards’ previous one Hey! Show, Denise Richards: It’s complicated, who followed her and her family amid her divorce from ex-husband Sheen in 2008. She briefly returned to the reality television program Bravo’s The The Real Housewives of Beverly Hillswhen she appeared as a main cast member in seasons 9 and 10 before leaving the franchise in September 2020.

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Special forces: the toughest test in the world season 3 premieres with a two-hour episode on Wednesday, January 8 at 8:00 PM ET on Fox.

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