Charlie Sheen needs to free himself from feeling like he’s being held hostage by his non-public life.
To shed that sensation, the “Wall Avenue” star determined to speak about his sexual previous in his memoir, “The E book of Sheen,” which comes out Tuesday.
Folks from his previous “had video issues or no matter and had stuff over me,” the actor informed Michael Strahan on “Good Morning America.” “So I used to be form of held hostage, , and that’s only a unhealthy feeling.”
Sheen talked Friday on the morning present about how his drug dependancy led him to have intercourse with males — he known as it “the opposite facet of the menu” — and the way he was compelled to pay folks to maintain these sexual encounters out of the general public eye.
Cherlie Sheen on his sexual encounters with males and feeling hostage by his non-public life.
He additionally hit on much less salacious revelations just like the connection between his stutter and his consuming. Within the guide, Sheen writes about masking his lack of ability to pronounce sure phrases and sounds with consuming alcohol. “Ingesting soften the perimeters,” he informed Strahan. “It gave me freedom of speech.”
After becoming a member of the ABC present “Spin Metropolis” in 2000 and studying the script, he mentioned, Sheen stopped hiding his speech obstacle and requested for assist.
“When unsure, simply be human sufficient to be weak,” he informed “GMA.”
Sheen additionally reveals within the guide that some people wished to show his HIV-positive prognosis earlier than he went public with it in 2015, in response to Folks. Sheen mentioned on “GMA” that lastly revealing his prognosis was a “large reduction.”
The “Two and a Half Males” actor — whose paycheck for the sitcom was estimated at as a lot as $2 million per episode — infamously landed in rehab in 2010 after threatening his ex-wife Brooke Mueller with a knife, trashed his room on the Plaza Lodge in New York and in 2011 was fired from his CBS sitcom amid a meltdown of epic proportions.
Through the “GMA” interview, Strahan requested the actor if he had any regrets.
“I do,” Sheen mentioned, “however there’s no worth in them.”
A documentary concerning the actor’s life, “aka Charlie Sheen,” will premiere Wednesday on Netflix. Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, informed Folks he determined to be weak about his previous as a result of he needs to personal his reality and his tales.
“The tales I can bear in mind anyway,” he mentioned.
