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Good Lord. As you probably know, Denise Richards is back on TV on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, so now she’s got more opportunities to give interviews about her scintillating personal life and pimp out her poor dead mother’s memory for some sympathy.

Richards hit up Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show and pretended to play coy about her love life, claiming that she’s only “dating-ish,” whatever that means. He must not be married.

Denise talked about her mom (of course) and how difficult and COMPLICATED her life has been and how her two daughters helped her get through the hard times. “Before my Mom passed away, during the public humiliation of different
things I was dealing with, my mom would always say, ‘You’re a lot
stronger than you think. You’ll get through it.’ ” And in the most classy way possible.

Trying to keep Denise away from reality TV is like trying to keep Charlie Sheen from sleeping with hookers. It’s possible, but you’ll probably end up with two black eyes in the process.

Gallery Info: Denise Richards leaving the 3rd Street Dance Studio.