 |
| Image:X |
Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen has opened up like never before about his past, admitting publicly for the first time that he had sexual encounters with men.
The 59-year-old star of Two and a Half Men revealed the deeply personal details ahead of two major projects about his life his memoir The Book of Sheen, set for release on September 9, and a Netflix documentary titled aka Charlie Sheen, which premieres on September 1.
Sheen explained that after years of relationships with women, he decided to experiment. “I’m not going to run from my past, or let it own me,” he told PEOPLE magazine in a new cover story. “Liberating.
It’s fing liberating… to just talk about stuff. It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A fing piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me.”
The actor disclosed that his experiences with men began during a period when he was heavily addicted to crack cocaine. “That’s what started it,” Sheen admitted.
“That’s where it was born, or sparked. And in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it ‘Where did that come from?... Why did that happen?’ and then just finally being like, ‘So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f***ing fun, and life goes on.’”
During those years of drug use, Sheen contracted HIV, a diagnosis he kept private for some time. He recalled how some of his overnight guests discovered his medication, photographed it, and then threatened to expose him unless he paid them. Initially, he gave in to the blackmail, but later decided to publicly confirm his HIV status in 2015 during an appearance on NBC’s Today show. “I do know for a fact that I never passed it on,” he emphasized.
Reflecting on his decision to bare it all in his book and documentary, Sheen said he no longer wanted to hide or censor his life story.
“With the book and the documentary I just wanted to tell my full truth and own my stories,” he explained. “The stories I can remember anyway,” he joked, acknowledging the foggy years of drug and alcohol abuse.
The actor also revealed that the past eight years have been a period of making amends to those he hurt while spiraling. Yet, he stressed that he doesn’t view himself solely as a victim. “It takes two to tango,” Sheen said.
Today, Sheen says his life is much calmer. Having gone through two highly publicized divorces from actresses Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller, he has chosen to live quietly.
“My romantic life is as uneventful as it possibly could be, and it’s been that way for a long time,” he admitted. “But I am open to love again. Probably not marriage, though!”
With his memoir and documentary set for release, Charlie Sheen appears ready to reclaim his narrative, confront his past, and share his journey with honesty, no matter how messy it might have been.
#Exclusiveupdate
#Viralcontent
No comments:
Post a Comment