Charlie Sheen has claimed that he was extorted after having sexual encounters with males.
The previous Two and a Half Males star has lifted the lid on his turbulent private life, his struggles with habit and the way he has managed to remain utterly sober for seven years.
Sheen, who was as soon as the very best paid sitcom actor on the planet, has a brand new memoir, The Guide of Sheen, popping out on 9 September, in addition to a two-part Netflix docuseries, aka Charlie Sheen, on the next day.
On the age of 60, he has come clear about his previous sexual encounters with males, and has defined why he needed to preserve it a secret.
In an interview with Good Morning America, which aired on Friday (5 September), Sheen stated he was being ‘held hostage’ by a few of his sexual companions.
“It did include an incredible quantity of extortion,” he instructed Michael Strahan.
“And so on the time, I used to be similar to, ‘Alright, let’s simply pay to maintain it quiet. And simply hope it simply stays over there, make it go away, you already know? Make it go away.’”
“That they had videoed issues or no matter, or had stuff over me,” he defined.
On why he has determined to talk about it brazenly in his e-book and documentary sequence, Sheen stated: “I simply must be freed from that … after which see how the world feels if folks know that stuff.
“As a result of I’ve written a narrative all these years about, ‘Oh jeez, if I ever reveal that, then this needs to be how I’d be handled, how I’d be handled, how they’d really feel.’”
Sheen was identified with HIV in 2011, the identical yr he was fired from Two and a Half Males. Nonetheless, he solely made the well being problem public in 2015.
“The one couple of instances I did not inform any person was as a result of the final 25 instances I’d instructed any person, they used it in opposition to me, they usually used my medical situation for their very own folly and monetary acquire,” Sheen instructed Piers Morgan at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2016.
“And the quantity of despicable charlatans that I assumed had been allies, that then turned in opposition to me, they had been popping out of the woodwork, it was loopy.”
The actor, recognized for his roles in Platoon and Wall Road, has insisted that he is by no means contaminated anybody with HIV.
Sheen has a complete of 5 youngsters, as his his eldest, Cassandra Estevez, was with high-school girlfriend Paula Revenue.
He and Denise Richards, married in 2002 and divorced in 2006, share daughters Sami and Lola.
Then in 2009, with third spouse Brooke Mueller, he welcomed twin sons Max and Bob.
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