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Denise Richards’ estranged husband Aaron Phypers is giving people a look inside the pair’s $3.5 million rental home, and it isn’t pretty. 

Phypers invited an Inside Edition TV crew into the home he previously shared with his wife. Cameras captured a chaotic and messy scene, with clothes hanging haphazardly on racks and junk piled on the floor. 

“All her stuff, this is how she left it,” he said.

He also pointed out stained carpets, overstuffed closets, and half-used toiletries covering the bathroom counter. 

“There’s hundreds of thousands of dollars of vintage clothing in here. It’s riddled with moths,” he said. “She buys makeup and keeps buying makeup and gets more makeup.” 

Denise Richards’ ex says abuse claims are ‘bogus’ 

According to Phypers, the upstairs part of the Calabasas home has been a disaster since Richards moved out. He also claims she left him with more than a dozen dogs to care for and suggested that she might have an issue with “hoarding” animals. 

In court filings, Richards said she hasn’t lived in the house for two years. But Phypers still resides there, along with his parents and brother. They’re facing eviction after Richards told them they needed to start paying rent earlier this year but they failed to do so. The Wild Things star also accused her ex and and his family of “severely destroying the property and left the house in a state of disarray.”

Phypers married The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member six years ago. He filed for divorce in July. Richards has since accused her husband of being abusive. He says that just isn’t true. 

“She’s upset,” he said. “I publicly dumped her to the world and she’s mad. So how does she retaliate? File a bogus abuse claim.”

After Phypers filed for divorce, Richards requested a temporary restraining order against her husband. Earlier this month, a judge ordered Phypers to temporarily vacate the house this weekend so that Richards could retrieve personal items as well as her dogs, People reported. 

How to get help: In the U.S., call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788.

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