Denise Richards has allegedly been enjoying a months-long fling with a former special forces soldier who showered her with X-rated photos and videos – among them a graphic clip that shows him naked and pleasuring himself.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the Wild Things actress's outraged husband Aaron Phypers claimed he caught wind of his wife's alleged affair in April and that she had promised to break it off – only for him to catch her lying about another hook-up with 53-year-old lover Rudy Reyes that took place at a Hilton Garden Inn in Burbank, California the following month.
He says his discovery of the May tryst then led to an explosive showdown over the July 4 holiday weekend, during which she smashed up his phone, he claims.
Irate, Phypers filed for divorce the following Monday – only to be hit with an avalanche of abuse allegations from Richards, 54, in court papers, including that he had left her with a black eye.
Now the 49-year-old – who feverishly denies ever harming Richards – has spoken out on their marriage to claim:
- An explosive argument on the Fourth of July holiday weekend about her alleged affair, which he says has been going on for six months, is what led to his decision to end their marriage
- She smashed up his phone after realizing he had taken pictures and video of her X-rated conversations with her lover
- She has a 25-pill per day Vicodin addiction and washes them down with tequila
- Richards lives a chaotic lifestyle that includes having a pack of 15 rescue dogs who Phypers claims are allowed to defecate all over her home
- Her house is so filthy, Phypers claims he once discovered 'petrified dog c**p' under one of her daughters' beds
Denise Richards's estranged husband Aaron Phypers has come forward with claims about his wife's alleged affair, which he says ended their nine-year marriage
In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail, Phypers claims he discovered 107 raunchy texts between Richards and her 53-year-old lover, Rudy Reyes on her phone back in April
'I'm brokenhearted and f***ing tired,' an exhausted Phypers told DailyMail.com. 'Really, she's f***ed me up.
'We've been together nine years and for her to do that and to lie to me consistently - I'm totally tired and drained.'
Phypers said his relationship with Richards had been deteriorating for some time before their split, worsening at the start of the year partly due to what he claims is her insatiable appetite for prescription pills and tequila.
'She's got a real problem,' Phypers said of her penchant for pills. 'She mixes it too with booze and she stays up all night.
'She's there on her computer and taking stuff, then she hides the bottles. It's gotten out of hand, and I'm really concerned.'
He added: 'She buys them in bottles of 500 pills. I don't know where she gets them from, but she always has them.
Phypers claims he found one text exchange in which the Special Forces veteran, Rudy Reyes, who is from South Carolina, sent Richards a shirtless snap
Reyes sent an X-rated selfie and expressed desire to see Richards in a text conversation as recent as May, according to Phypers
Phypers shared what he says is a text conversation that revealed details of the multiple sordid hotel hook-ups his wife and her lover enjoyed
'I don't know what the market rate for those are but it's $10, $20, $30, $50 each pill. You do the math - lot of money is going out the window for that.'
Adding to the marital pressure was their semi-nomadic lifestyle, which involved moving home six times in less than a decade – with each move requiring Phypers to stage what he describes as a 'Noah's Ark' operation to relocate her menagerie of pets.
According to Phypers, the glamorous blonde owned 58 dogs at one point, as well as two potbellied pigs, and an incontinent Sphinx cat named Tim that would 'mark his territory' each time they moved by spraying all over the house.
He says he was left to clear up the mess and repair the damage caused to their rental properties by the dog pack and said Richards never bothers to clean up after them – instead content to let their maids sweep dog poo under the family's beds.
'It is so gnarly,' a disgusted Phypers told Daily Mail 'There was petrified dog c**p under one of the girls' beds.
'The maids just sweep it under the bed. It's a beautiful home but no one picks up the mess.'
Other tawdry photos on the alleged text chain show Richards posing provocatively in a swimsuit in her bathtub and one of her wearing nothing but a pink cowboy hat and thong
The texts Phypers claims are from Richards also include a memorably bizarre exchange in which Richards told her lover that she 'felt a connection' when 'I met you and you put that potato sack over my head'
The alleged text exchange between Richards and her alleged lover include X-rated photos of the actress herself – including a racy snap where she is seen exposing one breast
Despite the alleged drugs and boozing, Phypers said the marriage muddled along until April when he claims he discovered 107 raunchy texts between Richards and Reyes on her phone, along with details of the multiple sordid hotel hook-ups they enjoyed.
He said the discovery made clear to him that Richards was allegedly having an affair, which led him to file for divorce. The proceedings and tension between the couple have been widely reported ever since.
'I just had this feeling that something was off because her behavior had changed – she was being kind of cool to me,' said Phypers.
'I opened her phone – we both know each other's passwords - so I opened it up and then I went to her deleted texts and there were 107 of them between her and this guy.
'I went through them and it just broke my heart.'
Of her alleged lover, he added: 'As for him, he's really is a w**ker.'
In an apparent conversation from February, her lover tells Richards he's single and admits: 'I hope i am not tempting U'
Phypers also complained about Richards's allegedly chaotic lifestyle that includes having a pack of 15 rescue dogs who he claims are allowed to defecate all over her home
DailyMail.com has reviewed the alleged conversations between Richards and Reyes, whom she met during her stint on Fox reality military training show Special Forces: World's Toughest Test.
Reyes, a former Recon Marine, appears as one of the show's presenters and 'Directing Staff' instructors.
A review of what Phypers claims is their text messages reveal multiple discussions about setting up hotel sex sessions as well as scores of raunchy photos shared between each other.
Along with graphic naked photos and videos of Richards's alleged soldier lover, they also include X-rated photos of the actress herself – including a racy snap where she is seen exposing one breast.
Other tawdry photos on the text chain show Richards posing provocatively in a thong swimsuit, and another where she is seen posing topless wearing nothing but a pair of pink thong panties and a pink hat.
It also includes a memorably bizarre exchange in which Richards told her lover: 'I really can't wait to talk to you in person actually.
Phypers says his discovery of the alleged May tryst led to an explosive showdown over the July 4 holiday weekend, during which Richards allegedly smashed up his phone (pictured)
'I felt a connection as a human being when I met you and you put that potato sack over my head.'
When he first discovered the fling, his wife apologized profusely and promised to break it off, according to Phypers.
She also offered to let him look at her phone whenever he wants to 'rebuild trust' but, Phypers said, soon returned to making plans to meet up with her lover.
'When I first found out, it really stung,' Phypers told DailyMail.com. 'But she offered to rebuild trust by letting me see her phone.
'Well, it turns out she's got another number too which I just found out about.
'It kills me. She's been setting up times to meet him out of town while creating fights with me.'
Richards met Reyes when she appeared on the latest season of Fox reality military training show Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, earlier this year
Reyes is a former US Marine Corps Recon Sergeant and now applies his tough military training on contestants on the show
