Richards’ answer came immediately: "This is disgusting. He is doing this now because he's not happy with me and the custody arrangement.

"My mom is going through chemotherapy and I asked Charlie if my mom could see the kids before she got really sick. That's a valid request. He doesn't stick to the schedule he has with the kids - that's not my fault.", she tells in the New York Post's gossip column Page Six.

Sheen’s friends explain, though, that Richards doesn’t want to lose her spy into her ex-husband life. That nanny tells her everything that happens there and it appears that trouble has grown even more since Sheen announced he would marry the realtor-turned-actress, Brooke Mueller.

That event caused another set of arguments between the ex-spouses  :  Richards sent flowers to his new fiancée, but the couple claims that the gesture was purely a publicity stunt.

A pal of Sheen’s explains also in New York Post's gossip column Page Six:  "Denise set it up. Brooke never got the flowers, but she did get a call from Denise saying, 'It's an emergency, come meet me now.' "When Brooke met her, there were four paparazzi waiting to take their picture. After the pictures were done, Denise told Brooke, 'It's been taken care of.'"

Richards conjures , "I did ask both Charlie and Brooke to lunch to see the kids - he hadn't seen them in two weeks - but only Brooke took me up on it”, the paparazzi following her as usual.

The three troubled years of marriage between Sheen and Richards ended in November 2006, after the actress has filed for divorce in April 2006. Since then she was supposedly involved with Richie Sambora, the ex-husband of Heather Locklear.