{"id":136647,"date":"2025-09-06T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136647\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:20:08","slug":"charlie-sheen-opens-up-on-sexual-encounters-with-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/136647\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Sheen opens up on sexual encounters with men"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Sheen<\/a>\u00a0is getting candid about his past sexual encounters with men<\/a>, saying it feels \u201cf\u2014ing liberating\u201d to not hold anything back.<\/p>\n

The former \u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d star, 60, spoke to People about laying his cards on the table, both in his upcoming memoir \u201cThe Book of Sheen\u201d<\/a> and the Netflix documentary \u201caka Charlie Sheen.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The Emmy winner, who\u2019s now eight years sober<\/a> after decades of drug and alcohol abuse, said those sexual experiences were \u201cborn or sparked\u201d when he was using crack.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what started it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, [I was] trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it \u2014 \u2018Where did that come from?\u2026 Why did that happen?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Sheen just accepted the encounters for what they were, finally getting to a place of \u201cbeing like, \u2018So what?\u2019 \u2026 Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f\u2014ing fun, and life goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also speaking to \u201cGood Morning America\u201d in an interview that aired Friday, Sheen acknowledged that he was \u201cprobably\u201d a sex addict while at the height of his substance abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt did come with a tremendous amount of extortion,\u201d Sheen said, adding that he\u2019d \u201cpay [people] to keep it quiet and just hope it just stays over there. Make it go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trying to hide his behavior made him feel like a \u201chostage,\u201d he said, particularly when people \u201chad stuff over [him],\u201d including photos and videos they\u2019d threaten to release if he didn\u2019t pay up.<\/p>\n

Sheen also contracted HIV during his drug-fueled exploits \u2014 another aspect of his life he attempted to keep private. He said it was \u201ca tremendous relief\u201d to finally reveal on the \u201cToday\u201d show in 2015 that he had the virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s f\u2013king liberating\u2026 [to] just talk about stuff,\u201d he says in the documentary, while telling People that he\u2019s no longer running from his past, but instead deciding to own it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Book of Sheen\u201d will be released on Tuesday, Sept. 9 and is currently available for preorder. His Netflix documentary hits the streamer the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Sheen\u00a0is getting candid about his past sexual encounters with men, saying it feels \u201cf\u2014ing liberating\u201d to not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,2558,85625],"class_list":["post-136647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-snyde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}