Denise Richards 'felt guilty' for splitting up her family after divorce from Charlie Sheen

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Denise Richards revealed she did not come to terms with her divorce from Charlie Sheen very easily. Richards, 51, spoke about her divorce from Sheen, 56, on Wednesday’s episode of Caroline Stanbury’s "Divorced Not Dead" podcast.

Richards, who filed for divorce in 2005, said she "felt guilty" for splitting up their family. "I struggled with that for years," Richards told the "Real Housewives of Dubai" star.

Although the guilt ate at her, Richards noted when she knew it was time to separate from Sheen. Denise Richards "felt guilty" for breaking up her family after filing for divorce from Charlie Sheen. (Getty Images) "I said to myself, ‘Would I want my daughters married to this man?’ No offense to him, but I think he would take that and understand what I’m saying, and that’s when I was like, ‘Well, why am I accepting this?'" Richards filed for divorce while she was six months pregnant with their daughter, Lola.The couple briefly tried to reconcile their marriage shortly after her birth but decided to part ways due to their "very toxic" marriage.

Sheen and Richards wed in 2002 and officially divorced four years later. Richards adopted her daughter Eloise. Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen wed in 2002 before divorcing in 2006. (Jim Spellman/WireImage) During her podcast appearance, Richards shared that she tried to shield her children from Sheen’s very public battle with substance abuse.  "I did shelter them a lot, and then they started to get to an age where ‘so and so said this,’ and I lied my ass off and covered for him," she told Stanbury. "Now, as they’re starting to get older, they’re more aware of more things.That’s why I say I don’t know if I did them a disservice when they were younger." Sheen and Richards recently.