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Charlie Sheen Spills the Tea: “Liberating” Confessions of Secret Trysts and a Wild Past as a ‘Probable Sex Addict’—Is This the Real Madman Unmasked?

Added on September 7, 2025 inCelebrity News Cards

Is it just me, or does it feel like the cosmos decided to stir the pot when Charlie Sheen chose to lay it all out in the open? Under today’s starry skies, while Mercury might be shaking up communication, Charlie’s talking about flipping his own life’s menu in a way none of us saw coming. At 60, the “Two and a Half Men” star breaks his silence about past sexual encounters with men—stuff he’d kept locked away, partly out of fear and partly because the universe (and some less-than-friendly humans) weren’t ready to hear it. From crack-fueled awakenings to battling extortioners who held his secrets hostage, Sheen’s new memoir, The Book of Sheen, and Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen serve up a raw, unfiltered look at a man who’s finally refusing to be owned by his past. It’s messy, it’s honest, and frankly, it’s downright liberating. Just goes to show—even when life’s an astrological rollercoaster, the real magic’s in owning your story. LEARN MORE

Charlie Sheen has opened up about how ‘liberating’ it is to talk about his past sexual encounters with men.

The Two and a Half Men actor, 60, has lifted the lid on his personal life in memoir The Book of Sheen, and new Netflix documentary, aka Charlie Sheen.

While his 2011 HIV diagnosis and troubles with addiction have been well documented, it is the first time he has revealed that he ‘flipped the menu over’, as he calls it.

“I’m not going to run from my past, or let it own me,” he said in a recent interview with People.

Sheen – who has been sober since 2017 – revealed that his first sexual experience with men came after using crack.

“That’s where it was born, or sparked,” he told Good Morning America.

“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 f**king fun, and life goes on.”

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The reason why he didn’t come clean sooner was because he was faced with extortion.

“It did come with a tremendous amount of extortion,” he told Michael Strahan.

“And so at 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.’

“They had videoed things or whatever, or had stuff over me.”

Charlie Sheen explained why he never publicly revealed that he had sex with men (Netflix)

Charlie Sheen explained why he never publicly revealed that he had sex with men (Netflix)

In the documentary, Sheen said it’s ‘f**king liberating just to talk about stuff’.

“It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A f**king piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me.”

Sheen regrets his previous behaviour, such as the the infamous 20/20 interview in 2011 when ABC’s Andrea Canning sat down with him during his battle with Two and a Half Men producers.

Sheen says he doesn't recognise his former self (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

Sheen says he doesn’t recognise his former self (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

“I’m on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen,” was one of his most memorable quotes, as well as: “I was bangin’ seven-gram rocks,” and, “I got tiger blood, man.”

“That tour didn’t have to happen,” he admitted. “I’m not a victim, but somebody should have tapped out for me and said, ‘This is a bad idea.’ I’ve combed through all the mental health manuals, and I’ve never found ‘exploitation’ as a good treatment protocol.”

The Book of Sheen comes out 9 September, and his Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen drops on 10 September.

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