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\nCharlie Sheen has a new memoir out Sept. 9, The Book of Sheen and a two-part Netflix documentary, Aka Charlie Sheen dropping Sept. 10In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, he looks back on partying with The Brat Pack\u201cThere was always that voice of doubt, that it was only a matter of time before it all went away, so to enjoy it as heartily as you can,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Charlie Sheen turned 60 on Sept. 3 and knows he’s got more years behind him than ahead of him \u2014 and that’s OK. But he’s looking back on some of them in two new projects: his debut memoir\u00a0The Book of Sheen<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>(out Sept. 9) and the two-part Netflix documentary\u00a0aka Charlie Sheen\u00a0<\/a>(Sept. 10).\n<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not about me setting the record straight or righting all the wrongs of my past,\u201d Sheen says of releasing both projects at once \u2014\u00a0something he says he didn’t plan that way.\n<\/p>\n \u201cMost of my 50s were spent apologizing to the people I hurt,” he says. “I also didn\u2019t want to write from the place of being a victim. I wasn\u2019t, and I own everything I did. It\u2019s just me, finally telling the stories in the way they actually happened. The stories I can remember, anyway.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Below, in an exclusive excerpt from The Book of Sheen, he recalls one such story from partying with The Brat Pack.<\/p>\n ‘The Book of Sheen’ by Charlie Sheen.<\/p>\n Gallery Books<\/p>\n I\u2019d been tagging along with Emilio and his group of newly fame-minted work pals as they hit the town night after night. They were an all-star lineup of Rob Lowe<\/a>, Demi Moore<\/a>, Judd Nelson<\/a> and Andrew McCarthy<\/a>. Rob\u2019s fianc\u00e9e Melissa Gilbert<\/a> was a steady presence as well. I was rolling with the \u201cit\u201d group, from the most popular films of the moment: Breakfast Club<\/a>, St. Elmo\u2019s Fire<\/a>, The Outsiders<\/a>, to name a few. As a group, they couldn\u2019t have been nicer to me; it was the gauntlet of hysteria they incited that had me constantly seeking shelter.\n<\/p>\n As soon as we\u2019d exit the limo, I\u2019d be relegated by their screaming fans to the role of stray dog, bringing up the rear for their crowd-parting, bar-hopping rambles. The night always began at the Hard Rock Cafe, then sashayed its way across the landscape of the gotta-be-seen popular hot spots. I felt so small and left out as I watched the Emilio-steered throng, redefining what a copious and decadent bask in the limelight could look like.\n<\/p>\n Chris was a passenger as well on many of those nights. We were oarsmen in the same unknown boat, providing cover and comfort for each other when we needed it most. All of that changed when his film Footloose came out and was a giant hit, sending him overnight to the other side of the velvet rope. That one hit me the hardest \u2014 my best friend in life was suddenly one of them. I was torn between hoping he was ready for it and knowing deep down that he wasn\u2019t.\n<\/p>\n Take PEOPLE with you!\u00a0Subscribe to PEOPLE magazine<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest details on celebrity news, exclusive royal updates, how-it-happened true crime stories and more \u2014 right to your mailbox.\n<\/p>\n As those nights escalated, I remained an invisible valet carrying the bags for a clob of celebrity that had the masses hypnotized. I wanted to be told just once by their babe-squad that I mattered too. Knowing it wouldn\u2019t happen until my celebrated film had a line around the block required a patience I hadn\u2019t developed yet. To be in the crush of LA\u2019s insane mid-eighties club scene with Rob Lowe and a bevy of gorgeous gals was like being shipwrecked with a fat guy \u2014 you\u2019re gonna starve.\n<\/p>\n Feeling like an afterthought in those vibrant settings lit a fire in me you could see from the f—n moon. My inner bear had officially been poked.\n<\/p>\n Excerpted from\u00a0THE BOOK OF SHEEN by Charlie Sheen. Copyright \u00a9\u00a02005\u00a0by\u00a0Charlie Sheen. Reprinted by permission of\u00a0Gallery Books,\u00a0 an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC.\n<\/p>\n The Book of Sheen<\/a>\u00a0hits shelves on Sept. 9 and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.\u00a0aka Charlie Sheen<\/a>\u00a0streams on Netflix starting Sept. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Charlie Sheen has a new memoir out Sept. 9, The Book of Sheen and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-6017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}