Denise Richards’ former “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” co-stars expressed concern after her estranged husband, Aaron Phypers, threatened to “crush [her] f–king hand” on digital camera.

The second occurred throughout Season 10 of the Bravo actuality present, which Andy Cohen made positive to convey up in the course of the subsequent reunion.

“Women, what was your response whenever you noticed that?” he requested the group in the course of the digital reunion, which aired in September 2020.

After a short awkward silence, Sutton Stracke spoke up. “Zero tolerance,” she mentioned sternly. “Zero. Unacceptable.”

Garcelle Beauvais, for her half, famous that she “didn’t hear it on the present” however later “noticed it on social media.”

“That’s once I was like, “‘Oh, my God.’ And I used to be, you realize, I used to be apprehensive,” she recalled as Lisa Rinna and Teddi Mellencamp quietly shook their heads in settlement.

When Cohen requested Richards concerning the remark, she claimed she didn’t “know” Phypers had mentioned that to her till she watched the scene again.

“I performed it for him, and he mentioned, ‘I don’t even bear in mind saying that. I don’t know why I’d say that as a result of I’m afraid of you,’” she defined.

When Cohen, 57, requested why Phypers can be afraid of her, Richards, 54, insisted she meant that “in a joking method.”

Final week, Phypers, 49, filed for divorce from Richards after practically seven years of marriage, with a supply claiming their relationship was “very poisonous” as a result of “all they have been doing was preventing.”

Richards was reportedly “devastated and relieved” by the submitting, because the supply mentioned she’s “mentally exhausted from the preventing” and “glad that’s over.”

Whereas Richards has but to reply to the divorce petition, she did file for a short lived restraining order this week, claiming Phypers was bodily abusive towards her whereas they have been collectively.

“All through our relationship, Aaron would regularly violently choke me, violently squeeze my head with each fingers, tightly squeeze my arms, violently slap me in my face and head, [and] aggressively slam my head into the toilet towel rack,” she alleged in her submitting, claiming that he even threatened to kill her and himself if she ever reported him to the authorities.

Connected to the TRO request, which was granted, was a photograph of Richards with a black eye, which she alleged Phypers gave her throughout a battle at his since-closed medical clinic in January 2022.

However in keeping with a supply near Phypers, Richards obtained the black eye after drunkenly falling on the steps at his workplace.

Phypers himself has additionally vehemently denied the “utterly false and deeply hurtful” accusations, insisting, “I’ve by no means bodily or emotionally abused Denise — or anybody.”

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