Denise Richards has accused Aaron Phypers of physically abusing her during their marriage

In court documents obtained by Us Weekly magazine, she said: "Throughout our relationship, 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.

"Aaron regularly threatened to 'break my jaw' and would cry, beg me to stay, and promise to get help - none of which ever happened.

"Aaron 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."

On 4 July, just five days before he filed for divorce, Denise alleged her spouse "repeatedly got within two inches of [her] face and screamed... degrading profanities, including calling me a '**** w****' and a 'piece of s***.'

"Aaron repeatedly grabbed my left arm tightly."

She said the next day, Aaron arrived at her house and yelled similar insults, as well as having "violently hit the bill of my hat with the back of his hand which caused my hat to fall off my head."

She added: "Later that day, Aaron chased me and grabbed both of my arms forcefully and pushed me and dragged me to the ground.

"I landed on the stairs, causing immense pain. Aaron stole my laptop and sent private messages he had stolen from my laptop without my permission.

"Aaron threatened that I would 'disappear' if I called the police."

In her petition, Denise accused Aaron of downloading the contents of her iCloud - including her private messages - onto her laptop, before transferring them to his, while she was asleep.

She alleged he woke her up screaming: "You f****** b****. I went into your computer and saw your text messages because your laptop were open while you were watching the movie on Netflix. I clicked sync iMessage so that your text messages would appear on your laptop and everything downloaded and I took photo of everything you lying b****."

She added: "Later, while I was on the toilet peeing, Aaron smashed me on the top of my head with the palm of his hand while screaming at me, 'Give me your f****** phone.'"

Denise alleged she initially moved out of their home in 2023 and leased three townhouses, but accused Aaron of having "repeatedly entered the townhouses unexpectedly".

She has asked the court to order Aaron - who she alleged owns eight unregistered guns - be ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from her and return her laptops and everything he downloaded from her phone.