After her daughter “totaled” her Volkswagen, Lola’s mother, Denise Richards has justified her choice to purchase a Mercedes-Benz for her.
“People are going to be like, ‘Oh, you got her another car.’ It was about five or six months later,” the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum said on SiriusXM’s “Jeff Lewis Live” Thursday.
In another part of the interview, the 51-year-old said that the premium car is “very safe,” though she admitted she couldn’t recall which model she had bought.
“It’s like a sedan,” she said.
Lola had been in a car accident; according to the California Highway Patrol, the 17-year-old was trying to drive through the night on a winding road when she fell into an embankment.
“Nobody was taken to the hospital, but the minor driver complained of a headache after the collision,” a police spokesperson said at the time.
Richards, though, asserted on Thursday that Lola was not actually operating the vehicle.
“She protected the person driving,” the “Wild Things” actress said. “I knew she didn’t drive [that night], and then finally [she] came clean.”