Charlie Sheen is opening up about past sexual encounters with men in two upcoming projects — his memoir The Book of Sheen, out September 9, and the Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, premiering September 10. The Two and a Half Men star gets candid in both about his history of drug use, relationships, and sexual dalliances.
“I flipped the menu over,” Sheen says in both the documentary and the book, according to PEOPLE. The actor has previously spoken about his sexual encounters with women during the height of his addiction struggles.
“It’s fucking liberating…[to] just talk about stuff,” the 60-year-old actor says in the documentary. “It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A fucking piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me.”
Sheen, who also addressed the topic in a recent Good Morning America interview, said he began having sexual encounters with men while using crack, but feels no shame about sharing that now.
“That’s what started it,” he said. “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?’ So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was fucking fun, and life goes on.”
Sheen, who is living with HIV, has previously recalled how some overnight guests spotted his antiretroviral medication, photographed it, and tried to blackmail him for money to keep his status secret. He initially paid them off but later went public with his diagnosis during a 2015 appearance on the Today show.
“I do know for a fact that I never passed it on,” he said of the virus at the time.
Sheen’s doctor, who said he had known the Spin City star for five or six years, also appeared on the 2015 Today interview to explain his HIV regimen and the importance of maintaining an undetectable viral load.
In a more recent Good Morning America interview with co-host Michael Strahan, Sheen said his encounters came “with a tremendous amount of extortion.”
“[A]t the time, I was just like, ‘Alright, let’s just pay to keep it quiet. And just hope it just stays over there, make it go away, you know? Make it go away.'”
He added that he felt “held hostage” by the decision to pay people off, fearing his sexual exploits would be exposed.
Sheen told PEOPLE he’s “not going to run from my past, or let it own me.” He said he wanted to share his full truth and the stories of his life — “the stories I can remember anyway,” he joked — without censoring details.
Sheen, who says he is sober, noted that he has spent the past eight years making amends to people he hurt while battling drug and alcohol addiction, but doesn’t want to portray himself as a victim.
On the evening of July 20, Amylah Majors and Jamaria Gaskins, a married couple from Richmond, were driving to visit Gaskins’ mother in central Virginia when they hit debris on Partlow Road in Spotsylvania County and heard a thumping sound. They pulled to the side of the road to inspect their car. Before they could get out, a man emerged from a nearby home and gave them a "thumbs up" sign.
Believing he was offering help, they were instead met by a torrent of racial and homophobic slurs and threats from him, another man, and a woman. Moments later, the trio allegedly chased the couple while brandishing guns, forcing them into a crash that ejected Majors from the vehicle.
Montero Hill, better known as Lil Nas X, has been charged with four felonies after allegedly injuring police officers during a bizarre incident in Los Angeles.
Last week, the 26-year-old rapper was filmed wandering the streets in his underwear with a traffic cone on his head, talking to himself as bystanders captured videos that quickly spread online.
The Grammy-winning artist, famed for his record-shattering 2018 hit "Old Town Road," had recently wiped his Instagram feed while teasing his next album, "Dreamboy."
New York City has opened Ace's Place, its first shelter dedicated specifically to serving transgender and gender-nonconforming people experiencing homelessness. Operated in partnership with the Bronx-based LGBTQ nonprofit Destination Tomorrow, the 150-bed facility in Long Island City, Queens, will provide transitional housing and wraparound support services for residents.
Fully funded by the city for now, Ace's Place will receive $65 million to remain operational through 2030. In addition to housing, the shelter will offer on-site psychiatric care, medical referrals, culinary and GED classes, job training, financial literacy and life skills workshops, counseling, and other comprehensive services. Destination Tomorrow will manage day-to-day operations.
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