To promote his memoir, “The Book of Sheen,” and a new Netflix documentary, Charlie Sheen has been dropping lots of salacious bombshells about his formerly out-of-control, drug-fueled lifestyle, which included indulging in various sexual escapades with all kinds of people, often in situations that were not conducive to a healthy, sane lifestyle.
At 15, Sheen lost his virginity to a Las Vegas sex worker, using his famous father’s credit card, according to Page Six and other outlets. After he became a hot young movie star, he began relying on the services of escorts, provided to him by his friend, Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. There also were nights at the Playboy mansion and flings with men while high. During his very public flameout in 2011, he boasted about his “tiger blood” and two live-in girlfriends, who in turn told the New York Post about their big shared bed and “triple-decker” sex life. Sheen later revealed that he kept his libido primed for ménages à trois with his two “goddesses” by slathering himself with testosterone cream
But an overriding theme of Sheen’s interviews, book, and his docuseries, “aka Charlie Sheen,” is that he’s still alive at 60 because he stopped abusing alcohol, drugs and testosterone cream and has dedicated himself to being a healthy, balanced human being and a present father to his five children and one grandchild.
Sheen also revealed to Page Six that his eight years of sobriety extends to his sex life, meaning he’s been celibate for about the same amount of time. He said there’s “not enough room in my car” right now for dating and that there have been no girlfriends since he got sober.
Asked if that means he is celibate, Sheen said, “If I don’t have a girlfriend and I’m not paying for it, then I think the math is pretty simple. The math is pretty simple.”
Still, Sheen, who revealed in 2015 that had been diagnosed with HIV, would like to make room in his life for romance and sex.
“Oh my gosh, for so long (sex) was all I cared about, or it was near the top of the priority list,” Sheen told Page Six. “And so I just saw (celibacy) as a needed break from those pursuits. That’s not me slamming the door on anything in the future. No, I would absolutely welcome some type of companionship.”
Sheen is the third child of “Apocalypse Now,” “The West Wing” and “The Departed” star Martin Sheen, 85, and his wife Janet Templeton. His older brother is actor and director Emilio Estevez, a member of the so-called Brat Pack of hot, young ’80s actors. Charlie Sheen soon rose to fame on his own, with starring roles in “Platoon,” ‘Wall Street” and “Major League.”
Growing up in Malibu, Sheen first became a father with his high school girlfriend, Paula Profit. Their daughter, Cassandra, is now 40. In 1995, he married model Donna Peele, the same year he was publicly named as one of Fleiss’ escorts. That marriage only lasted one year.
Sheen met actor Denise Richards on the set of the 2001 rom-com “Good Advice,” and they married the following year, when Sheen was starring in the TV comedy, “Spin City.” They had two daughters together, Sami and Lola, but divorced in 2005. They appear to have mostly resolved their differences and become friends. Sheen next married his third wife, Brooke Mueller, and they had two sons before divorcing in 2011.
That year, Sheen’s out-of-control behavior reached its peak, when he said in his memoir that his consumption of drugs increased to such a level that his dealers assumed that he himself was dealing, according to Vulture. That year, filming on his CBS sitcom, “Two and a Half Men,” had to stop so that he could check into rehab, Page Six added. He didn’t stay very long and came out to publicly slam the network and the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre, leading to his firing. That year, Sheen also was diagnosed with HIV.
Sheen hasn’t worked much in recent years but told Page Six: “I’m reading the best material that I’ve read in 20 years.”
According to Page Six, Sheen is taking responsibility for his poor life choices.
“I think one of the running themes in the book is that it is really all about choices,” Sheen told Page Six. And so everything I did leading up to those consequences, results, whatever you want to call ’em, were done by choice. I always kept this as my north star … it can’t be written from the standpoint of the viewpoint of a victim.”