Unpacking Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen’s Messy History Before Daughter Sami’s Estrangement From Dad

Sami Sheen Moves in With Dad Charlie Sheen

In 2021, Sami said in a September TikTok that she had escaped the “hell house” of home life with her mom, and Sheen confirmed that his eldest daughter, then 17, was living with him.

“Sam is amazing,” the actor said through his rep, per People. “I love her and all my children unconditionally. We’re having a ball. GED here we come.”

That October, a judge granted Sheen’s request to no longer have to pay Richards child support. 

“Sometime in spring, in early April, Ms. Richards had a falling out with her daughters and asked Mr. Sheen to take custody,” Sheen’s lawyer Daniel Pedrick told the judge. “That has been the reality since April of this year.”

Pedrick also said in court that his client had set up a $1.2 million trust for the kids when he first filed to alter his child support payments in December 2019.

Outside the courthouse, Sheen told Us Weekly, “I think what transpired today is extremely fair.”

Richards acknowledged her “strained relationship” with Sami in 2022.

“It’s very difficult,” she said on SiriuxXM’s Jeff Lewis Live. “I know we’ll get back to where we were eventually but right now, it is strained. Obviously, I would love for her to live with me. She lived with me all these years.”