Denise Richards Talks to Daughters About Charlie Sheen's Addiction

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This was not a great year to be the mother of any of Charlie Sheen's children.

Sheen's most recent ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, will get a few years to plan her "talk" with Bob and Max -- you know, the one where she explains what their friends mean when they ask if dad still "pounds seven gram rocks."

But Denise Richards' little girls are 7 and 6, and they probably wanted to know why their dad was on TV all day every day in March, if they have Adonis DNA and tiger's blood and what a "warlock" is.

Not easy questions for any mother to answer.

Richards found herself conflicted about what to do, and initially handled it differently.

She told the "Today" show, "I was just lying to them about so much, and covering up things and totally lying. It was just getting too confusing that I had to sit down with them."

Eventually, she had to concede.

"[I decided to] have a conversation with them about addiction," she continued. "It's too early (for them to understand). I told them enough for them to make sense of things that were going on."

She says she also found a book written to explain addiction to children and read it to them.

Interestingly, Richards released a memoir on Tuesday, "The Real Girl Next Door," which speaks rather nicely of her ex. At least, it maintains that the beginning of their relationship was magical and she still cares about him.