Denise Richards accuses estranged husband of domestic violence

Denise Richards has accused her estranged husband Aaron Phypers of years of alleged physical and verbal abuse.

Richards, 54, filed a temporary restraining order against Phypers, 52, claiming that he “regularly threatened to ‘break my jaw’ and would cry, beg me to stay, and promise to get help − none of which ever happened.”

In court documents, filed on July 16 and viewed by USA Today and other outlets, Richards wrote that Phypers “has caused me at least three concussions.”

“Aaron has told me that he has left recording devices to record me while I was alone in hotel rooms and at my townhouses,” Richards alleged in the documents.

Richards said that throughout her marriage to Phypers, he has “threatened to kill me and himself and the police. He owns at least 8 unregistered guns.”

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum also attached several photos to the filing, including one in which she has a black eye, claiming it was a result of Phypers’ abuse.

“Aaron would frequently violently choke me, violently squeeze my head with both hands, tightly squeeze my arms, violently slap me in my face and head, aggressively slam my head into the bathroom towel rack, threaten to kill me, hold me down with his knee on my back to the point where I would have to plead with him to get off me so that he would not kill me and hack into my laptop and phone and download all of my text messages,” Richards wrote, according to People.

In the legal documents, Richards also detailed a recent incident that she claims took place over the July 4 weekend. She alleged that Phypers beat her and hacked into her private messages. She urged the judge to take into account the seriousness of the alleged attacks and said she feared it would happen again.