Charlie Sheen desires to free himself from feeling like he’s being held hostage by his personal life.
To shed that sensation, the “Wall Street” star determined to speak about his sexual previous in his memoir, “The Book of Sheen,” which comes out Tuesday.
Individuals from his previous “had video things or whatever and had stuff over me,” the actor advised Michael Strahan on “Good Morning America.” “So I was kind of held hostage, you know, and that’s just a bad feeling.”
Sheen talked Friday on the morning present about how his drug habit led him to have intercourse with males — he referred to as it “the other side 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 personal life.
He additionally hit on much less salacious revelations just like the connection between his stutter and his ingesting. Within the e book, Sheen writes about masking his lack of ability to pronounce sure phrases and sounds with ingesting alcohol. “Drinking soften the edges,” he advised Strahan. “It gave me freedom of speech.”
After becoming a member of the ABC present “Spin City” in 2000 and studying the script, he mentioned, Sheen stopped hiding his speech obstacle and requested for assist.
“When in doubt, just be human enough to be vulnerable,” he advised “GMA.”
Sheen additionally reveals within the e book that some people needed to show his HIV-positive prognosis earlier than he went public with it in 2015, in accordance with Individuals. Sheen mentioned on “GMA” that lastly revealing his prognosis was a “tremendous relief.”
The “Two and a Half Men” 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 Resort in New York and in 2011 was fired from his CBS sitcom amid a meltdown of epic proportions.
Throughout the “GMA” interview, Strahan requested the actor if he had any regrets.
“I do,” Sheen mentioned, “but there’s no value in them.”
A documentary in regards to the actor’s life, “aka Charlie Sheen,” will premiere Wednesday on Netflix. Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, advised Individuals he determined to be susceptible about his previous as a result of he desires to personal his reality and his tales.
“The stories I can remember anyway,” he mentioned.
