Charlie Sheen is pleased that he is here to tell his story.
The star’s new memoir, The Book of Sheen, is filled with shocking moments straight from his birth. “I was born dead,” he writes. He was strangled by the umbilical cord and resurrected. At age 15, he lost his virginity to a Vegas prostitute whom he paid with a credit card belonging to his father, Martin Sheen.
The book has enough medication to defeat elephants, leading to 1998’s 7 trips for cocaine overdose near fat and rehabilitation. Not to mention his HIV diagnosis in 2011.
Eight years of drinking – and he told the single on Page 6 – he felt a real “thank you” to celebrate last week’s 60th birthday. (He celebrated with a family lunch and a trip to the spa with one of his sons.)
“A lot of this should be considered gravy,” he said, “and he’s still here.” “I think I get more than all those cats, so it borrowed time or my 10th life.
“It’s absolutely not lost that stories like me are just being told normally… at the memorial, do you know what I’m saying?”
The people around him are grateful, but cautious.
In the documentary, “AKA Charlie Sheen,” his friend and former “Two and a half man” co-star John Kryer admits “anxious” about him taking part in the premiere on Netflix, his friend and former “Two and a half man” co-star, on Wednesday.
“Part of Charlie Sheen’s life cycle was that he was so ruined, he hit the bottom of the rock, he made things happen again, and he brought a lot of positivity into his life.
“And I didn’t want to be part of that cycle… I’m not here to build him, not to dismantle him, but I hope this doesn’t get any worse.”
Sheen thought Kryer’s comment was “incredibly insightful,” but “Well, s-t, John, I might have put it on me decades ago and would have given me half of what I spent on therapy and rehabilitation and more!”
Kryer witnessed the most infamous period of the scene. In 2011, the sitcom had to stop filming the scene to check for drug rehabilitation. Once outside, he publicly denounced CBS and showed creator Chuck Roll multiple times, leading to his firing. And there was an infamous interview that claims he has “tiger blood” in his veins and that he is the “warlock of the Vatican assassin.”
He blames it for being high, but uses too many testosterone creams to increase his libido while living with two girlfriends.
That same year, he was rushed to the hospital with a headache and was informed that he was HIV positive. He then went to Mexico and remained in the “hammer” for the next two years.
The sexual escape of the scene, detailed in the book and documentary, is the three whirlwinds, a prostitute, a night at the Playboy mansion, and collapses with a man while he is high.
He gained fame in “Platoon,” “Wall Street,” and “Major League Baseball” in the 1980s, but quickly admitted that he signed up for unacclaimed films for his drug payments.
“I’ve always been pretty good friends with the dealer,” he said. “I know it’s funny. When you hang out with him, when he stays at the party, you usually get a better rate with dope. But there’s a connection because I only did those shitty movies to keep funding habits.”
Ketamine is a fatal overdose in October 2023, telling slides from weeds to cocaine and cracks, and in his book, his fellow “Friends” star Matthew Perry received a fatal overdose.
“I’ve never done that,” he told Page 6. “I knew a few people, so I saw it. It wasn’t the colour I knew I would look good.”
It’s a miracle that Sheen didn’t follow Perry’s footsteps. The actor hosted a support group where Sheen attended several times (he adds that he “is not violating the code” by talking about it).
“Matt and I shared a deeper truth than we saw with each other. We were both because Bobby Dee Jay was a ‘unspeakable veteran’,” writes Sheen.
Bobby Dee Jay is what he calls Robert Downey Jr., and he had his own amazing comeback story in Hollywood Gutter.
“We had that common position with each other right away,” Sheen said of Perry.
He devoured Perry’s 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and Big Terrible Things” for a day. In it, Perry wrote how he prayed for fame after watching a TV report on the troubles of the scene a few weeks before landing “Friends.”
“It was amazing,” Sheen said. “I turned off the phone, I just said, ‘Okay, this is everything for now.’ And I’m in his book!
“And I was like, ‘You’re going, Matt.’ And I called him and just tried to meet him and do some coffee or something.
Sheen was at a party with Perry when he met his future wife, Brooke Mueller.
Their marriage, which lasted from 2008 to 2011, was devastated by the recognition of drug use on both sides that led to a custody battle between twin sons Bob and Max.
“In Brook, it may seem a little more difficult than I was in Dennis (another original Richards, Richards), but that was justified. “Our kids deserve better than reading a lot of things that happened, but that doesn’t really tell the part of how we all work now.”
He is undoubtedly polite in his book about his wife and partner. Sheen shares her daughter, Cassandra, 40, with the interests of his high school girlfriend Paula, who are grandparents of granddaughter Luna. Her marriage to Richards continued from 2002 to 2006, giving birth to Sami, 21, and two 20-year-old daughters.
They remain friends, and Richards, who appears in the documentary, joined him at last week’s premiere.
However, Sheen said he hasn’t spoken to Sami for a year after falling into a career as the sole fan creator.
“Yeah, that’s awful. I can’t lie to you, but I’m almost unrealistically optimistic.
“It makes me sad, but I have hope and I believe it can be recovered, but it cannot happen until there is a line of communication that will resume.”
His disapproval of her choice must be somewhat ironic, taking into account his own past.
“I think they weren’t lying when talking about the universe having a sense of humor,” he said with a laugh.
Sheen writes that now “I don’t have enough space in my car” to take care of his kids and go on a date.
He’s not got a girlfriend since he calmed down. When asked if that means he is single, Sheen said, “If I don’t have a girlfriend, if I don’t pay for it, I think math is very easy. math is very easy.”
However, the actor who said his HIV is properly managed hopes to find love again someday.
“Oh my well, my well, for so long (sex) I cared because it was at the top of the priorities list, and I just saw it as a necessary break from those pursuits.
Sheen hasn’t worked much in recent years, but he said, “I’m reading the best material I’ve read in 20 years.”
And he is responsible for everything that happened to him.
“I think one of the themes that is running in the book is that it’s really about choices, and that it leads to those outcomes, the outcomes, whatever you want to call, was done by choice,” he said. “I always kept this as a North Star… I can’t write it from the victim’s point of view.
“It really is the story of a little kid trying to find a way home…and I hope people have something to do with it.”
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