E! signs up Denise Richards for regrettable reality show

By M&C Smallscreen Feb 13, 2008, 3:37 GMT

10/25/2007 - Denise Richards - © David Gabber / PR Photos

Divorced, dumped by rehabbing boyfriend who was married to her one-time next-door neighbor, and currently not working on anything of note is the perfect list of ingredients for the latest trainwreck reality series to hit the smallscreen.

Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen's ex - along with their two daughters - is set to "star" in an as-yet-untitled reality show for E! set to debut this summer.

The series, according to E! will "follow the famous mother as she transitions back into life as a single parent and attempts to distance herself from her acrimonious, headline-grabbing divorce from Sheen."

Ryan Seacrest is producing this turbid melodrama.

"I've been approached before and the timing wasn't right and I wasn't in the right place in my life with everything going on," Richards said during Seacrest's L.A. radio show.

"I think there's been so many negative things about me in the press, most of it not true. I've kept quiet about many, many things, and I find the public believes what they hear. And if they're only hearing one side, that's what they're going to believe. So, it's time for people to see what I'm really like."

"My mom and dad are the rock of my family, and I would not have gotten through my divorce—with being bashed in the press—if I did not have my mom and dad," Denise said.

"It was very hard, it's very hard to hear those things and read those things, and I imagine it was hard for my parents. So in hindsight, I think I may have handled it in not the right way, so I want people to see what I'm really like and then judge for themselves if they believe these tabloid stories."