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'I wasn't abusive' - Charlie Sheen
23/04/2006 10:50 - (SA)
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| Charlie Sheen and his then-wife actress Denise Richards arrive at CBS celebration in New York in 2003. (AP) |
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Washington - Actor Charlie Sheen on
Saturday denied charges from his estranged wife, actress Denise
Richards, that he had been abusive toward her and their
daughters and had threatened to kill her.
"I move forward and I maintain my integrity ... and focus
on my children," Sheen told Entertainment Tonight co-anchor
Mark Steines in an interview for the Paramount Pictures Corp
programme to be aired on April 24.
On Friday, Sheen was ordered to keep at least 90m away from Richards and their two young daughters after
the abuse allegations were made in court papers.
The restraining order is the latest chapter in the stormy
marriage between Sheen, a one-time playboy, and model/actress
Richards, 35, who filed for divorce from him last December,
after less than three years of marriage.
Sheen, star of the hit CBS television series Two and a
Half Men, told Entertainment Tonight Richards' filing is a
"heinous document of fiction."
"I'm deeply saddened because this is clearly demonstrating
a wanting and willful attempt at what I describe as a radical
and transparent smear campaign and clearly a departure from
sound, sane, responsible co-parenting," Sheen said.
"It is a reaction to a failed marriage, a reaction to some
twisted desire - real or imagined - to hurt, to punish, to
discredit, to completely torpedo, to undermine my perception as
a responsible father ... a contributing father, a guy who would
give his life for his children."
Sheen was reacting to Richards' written declaration that
she could "no longer accept (his) abusive and threatening
manner and must stop him from the cycle of his abuse towards me
and our children and his continued threats of violence and
statements that he is going to kill me."
Richards is "the only one entirely culpable for putting
these radical allegations out for public consumption ... my
children included," Sheen told Entertainment Tonight.
Richards also alleged Sheen, son of actor Martin Sheen,
abused prescription drugs, gambled compulsively, frequented
prostitutes and liked to look at pornography on the internet.
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