Denise Richards is opening up about her sexual assault expertise at a younger age and its lasting affect on her life since.

The 53-year-old actress — alongside together with her fellow recruits — was challenged to finish a helicopter extraction on the Season 3 premiere of FOX’s Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Check Wednesday night time.

The problem led to Richards being reminded of the traumatic time, revealing, “I actually need to discover ways to not be overwhelmed by concern. I have been by means of traumatic conditions which were very terrifying for me. I need to discover ways to take care of these points and be stronger.”

Sadly, the actress failed the problem as she tried to leap from a ship onto a hovering helicopter.

“It is laborious. I am utterly out of my consolation zone,” stated Richards earlier than including, “I am not petrified. I am emotional proper now.”

The Directing Workers (DS) famous that she “froze” in the course of the train.

“Sure, I am utterly overcome by sure fearful conditions, and I need to discover ways to keep calm and do one thing,” Richards responded.

“A part of the rationale I wished to do that course is I have been in conditions the place I freeze and I can not perform, I can not even converse to guard myself,” the Wild Issues star stated earlier than sharing a terrifying expertise together with her husband Aaron Phypers.

“We have been driving. He wished to take me to set,” she stated. “He did not need me going alone, thank God, and we have been bodily shot at in his truck, and I sat on the ground and was simply actually, I peed. I used to be so scared … I froze.”

“The primary time I ever skilled that I used to be 15 and I seen a person following me,” she then revealed, as she started to interrupt down in tears.

“He got here up from behind me, put his hand round my mouth, grabbed my vagina, and began dragging me, and I froze, like I could not even scream for assist.”

“It is so scary to have that state of affairs, you recognize, that age and be so susceptible. And I’ve three daughters, and I need them to have the ability to by no means undergo that. And in addition, if one thing, God forbid, occur to be sturdy sufficient,” she stated after admitting she had solely informed Phypers concerning the sexual assault.

The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum is a mom to daughters Sami, 20, Lola, 19, and Eloise, 13.

The actress then added that she would not imagine she has “addressed loads” of what she has gone by means of.

“And it’s totally terrifying. I do not know if I’d have the ability to recover from my previous,” she stated.

Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Check airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

The Nationwide Sexual Assault Phone Hotline — 800.656.HOPE (4673) — gives free, 24/7 assist for these in want.