For the first time in his tumultuous life, Charlie Sheen is revealing his past sexual experiences with men. Charlie has a memoir coming out on September 9, The Book of Sheen. The following day, Netflix will release a two-part documentary, aka Charlie Sheen. In both the book and the documentary, he confesses some previously unknown information.
“I flipped the menu over,” he admits in both projects, about trying something new after previously only having sex with women.
In the documentary, an interviewer asks him how it feels to be going public with this very personal information. “It’s f*cking liberating,” he responded. “It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A f*cking piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me.”
Charlie Sheen opens up on experiences with substance abuse and sexual encounters with men
“I’m not going to run from my past, or let it own me,” the Two and a Half Men alum told People.
He elaborated that his sexual encounters with men began while he was using crack. “That’s what started it,” he told Michael Strahan on Good Morning America. “That’s where it was born.”
But when he was sober, he would wonder, “Where did that come from? … Why did that happen?” Finally, he just came to a place of acceptance, thinking, “So what? Some of it was weird; a lot of it was f*cking fun. Life goes on.”
Sadly, somewhere during his drug-fueled sexual exploits, the Wall Street star contracted HIV. At first he tried to keep his diagnosis private, but after several of his overnight guests noticed his medication and threatened to expose him, he decided to go public. He announced his HIV status in 2015 on the Today show. Fortunately, “I do know for a fact that I never passed it on,” he says now.
Charlie’s purpose behind both the book and the documentary is to tell the truth in his own way. And he wanted to tell the whole story, not censoring anything – at least “the stories I can remember,” he laughed.
After spending the past eight years making amends to everyone he hurt through his addiction, he’s not playing the victim card. “It takes two to tango,” he said.
These days, Charlie lives a much quieter life, away from the spotlight. He’s been single for years, following his two divorces from exes Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller.
“My romantic life is as uneventful as it possibly could be,” he confessed. “I had to get to a place where I could be alone, but not lonely.”
“But I am open to love again,” he admitted. “Probably not marriage, though!”
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