Denise and Brooke with their kids in September, 2012
Last week we heard that Charlie Sheen’s ex wife, Brooke Mueller, had her four year-old twin boys taken away by child protective services. We didn’t report it because I assumed the boys were being cared for by Charlie’s other ex, Denise Richards, for some time and that it was just a formality. Brooke has been a drugged-out mess for years, and she’s been in and out of rehab while relatives have been watching her kids. It sounds like the boys were still with Brooke though, and it was reported that social workers had to step in to formally remove them and place them in Denise’s care. Denise has been appointed a temporary guardian, which Charlie says was the right decision. (I would say who cares what Charlie thinks, but he’s their dad. His goddesses were probably better babysitters than Brooke.)
It turns out there was a lot of drama behind the scenes. According to Radar Online, Brooke lost custody of the twins after she was placed on an involuntary 5150 psychiatric hold at UCLA medical center. She was strung out on crystal meth when they took her in. She refused to stay past the two days they were legally allowed to hold her and then she went missing, turning off her cell phone so her friends and family had no way to contact her. She finally checked into some kind of treatment, and it sounds like she’s going to get short term treatment for detox and then will transition into a residential rehab. She’s done that several times in the past and we’ve seen how well that’s worked out for her. Here’s more:
“Brooke was released from the hold last week but she made the decision that it’s in her best interests to seek treatment for her drug addiction at UCLA, at least, in the short term,” a source close to the troubled socialite revealed.
“The plan is for Brooke to stabilize and then she’ll move to to another treatment facility soon.”
Added the source: “It was Brooke’s sole decision to check back into UCLA.”
In a statement, a rep for Mueller, said she’ll “likely transition directly into a residential treatment facility to get help for prescription drug abuse.”
“Brooke misses her children and wants to get healthy so she can resume her life and get back to being a mom,” Steve Honig added.
Well I hope it sticks this time for her, but she keeps relapsing hard. Meanwhile the boys will stay with Denise for some time.
DCFS had been investigating and monitoring Brooke Mueller’s care of her twins for at least four months. An investigation was opened because of her ongoing alleged drug use around the boys, and her inability to care for them,” the source tells us.
“The boys will stay with Denise for the foreseeable future, and social workers just won’t hand the boys over to Brooke if she finally decides to get help. Brooke is going to have to jump through hoops just to get supervised visitation with the boys. Brooke was given every opportunity to clean up her act to avoid this, but she is just lost to the disease at this point.
“Denise has told social workers that the boys can stay with her for as long as necessary. She has stepped up big time and the social workers are amazed at the love she has for the boys,” the source reveals.
Denise is now a single mom to five kids! She surely has help since she gets a lot of cash from Charlie still, but that’s so much for one person to take on. She has daughters Sam, 8, Lola, who turns 7 next month, and she adopted daughter Eloise about two years ago. Charlie is so lucky that Denise is watching his boys. She’s proven herself over and over again since their divorce.
Brooke in February
Photo credit: WENN and FameFlynet
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