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Charlie Sheen’s swaggering return to the spotlight arrives not via a sitcom revival or tabloid fanfare, but with a hard-hitting, deeply personal salvo: “The Book of Sheen,” a debut memoir landing on shelves Tuesday. The book will be accompanied by a two-part Netflix documentary, titled “aka: Charlie Sheen,” debuting Wednesday, Sept. 10.
The Book of Sheen: A Memoir
In the 368-page confessional, Sheen barrels through decades of Hollywood highs and personal lows , framing career tentpoles such as “Platoon”, “Wall Street,” “Two and a Half Men,” inside the shadows that followed each triumph. The book includes a raw glimpse at the wild backstage stories that nearly took his life: wild drug binges, sexual exploits and marketplace insanity that ended with “tiger blood” mantras and the immortal “Winning!” catchphrase.
Unlike some carefully calibrated celebrity memoirs, Sheen doesn’t hold back. His confessions include stories about encounters with men during a crack-fueled spiral. Some of these encounters, he reveals, morphed into extortion nightmares, involving escorts who saw his HIV medications and leveraged the moment. While he broke his HIV-positive diagnosis years ago, the public admission only came after being blackmailed.
Also featured in the book is his infamous 2011 meltdown. In his telling, it wasn’t just cocaine, but a legal testosterone cream — “mind-altering gobs” of it — that twisted his behavior and, he suggests, ushered in the era of erratic tabloid headlines. Now, Sheen credits his eight year-long sobriety and parenting with anchoring him to something steadier than fame.
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