Denise Richards & Mrs Hyde

"I thought you had them?" "What it's your turn to have them." What night is it?" "I don't know, I know what day it is - is the night the same as the day? What do you mean - the same letters or numbers?" "No, you jackass -Names?" "That's what I said."

Former Bond girl Denise Richards' publicist has acted quickly to rubbish a new magazine expose, in which a former nanny claims the actress is a moody 'Jekyll and Hyde' character.

In a new magazine article, the unnamed child minder claims the actress, who is now divorced from ex-husband Charlie Sheen, sleeps with 14 dogs, guzzles coffee she imports from Hawaii and changes from pleasant to unpleasant in an instant.

However Richards' spokeswoman Jill Fritzo has jumped to the actress' defense, insisting, "The story is untrue." The former nanny alleges Richards is prone to "temper changes," adding she's "irritable" and "can't focus."

She tells the Star, "In the morning, she's sweet and friendly, but... by one o'clock, she's packing heat and seems wired and confused. The warning shots she fires above my head are getting closer in fact she recently put a smoking hole in my bun. She later apologized blaming the incident on the small boy who hides inside the dishwasher. He just kept saying "you can do it, come on that's a big bun." The Nanny countered such outrageous claims, pointing out the fact that, if anything, her bun is average sized."

The claims come at a bad time for Richards, who is fighting with her ex over custody of their two young daughters. Sheen has accused his ex of spying on him by employing her assistant as the children's nanny and insisting she accompanies the actor and his new fiancée, Brooke Mueller, into bed for a Menage e' Trois.

The Platoon star is now hoping to land better custody terms that will allow him to hire his own nanny so he can enjoy the threesomes more often.