Denise Richards wants ex-husband Charlie Sheen to stop publicly bad-mouthing her.

The pair split in 2006 and have since been embroiled in a bitter custody dispute over their two daughters. And there has been no limit to the insults they have slung at each other: Sheen has accused Richards begging him to donate his sperm so that she could have another child by him, which she denied telling Page Six, "I don't want Charlie's prostitute-tranny-infested sperm."

Comedy actor Sheen also recently referred to his marriage to Richards as "a con" while calling his relationship with new wife Brooke Mueller "the real deal."

Richards, who has a reality show in the US called Denise Richards - It's Complicated, now wants the public feuding to end and hopes that marriage will mellow him.

She says, "He loves to trash me in the press and discredit me and has tried to sabotage my show. I can't change that, so I just keep living my life.

"I hope that now that he's married, he can move forward and be civil."