Celebrities endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process in a new season airing on Wednesday, Jan. 8.

Season 3 of ‘Special Forces’ began with 16 contestants, including Stephen Baldwin and Denise Richards, but several have since exited the show

World's Toughest Test' season 3, which puts celebs like Denise Richards, Stephen Baldwin, Kyla Pratt, Bachelor Nation's Ali Fedotowsky and Trista Sutter, and more through grueling physical challenges.

A day after viewers saw Richards withdraw from the survival competition due to injury, she tells Entertainment Weekly that what happened to her was more complicated than it appear

Denise Richards got extremely vulnerable in the Season 3 premiere of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star referenced a 2022 incident where she was shot at while driving in Los Angeles, comparing it to another “terrifying” moment in her life that she’d never spoken about publicly before.

"I wanted to be able to get out of it what I really, truly could," Richards said of her time on the competition show