At age 60 and eight years sober, Charlie Sheen is stripping away the façade in his memoir The Book of Sheen and the accompanying Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen. For the first time ever, he openly discusses his past sexual experiences with men—something he describes as “liberating,” marking a turning point in his journey from chaos to clarity.
These encounters, Sheen reveals, began amid drug use, particularly crack cocaine. As he puts it, “I flipped the menu over”—embracing a chapter of his life that was long suppressed. He candidly calls parts of it “weird,” but also acknowledges that “a lot of it was f—ing fun,” ultimately asking, “So what?”.
Sheen also reflects on the HIV diagnosis he publicly disclosed in 2015, revealing he was extorted by people who photographed his medication. Though he initially paid them to keep things quiet, he says coming clean brought relief.
Now focused on raising his children and living quieter, Sheen says he’s no longer hiding—and won’t let his past own him.
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