Charlie Sheen knows how to deliver shock and awe when it comes to describing his colourful life.
The American actor appeared on Australia’s edition of 60 Minutes on Sunday night and left reporter Amelia Adams stunned when he admitted that his mammoth consumption of cocaine once led to him being cut off by a Mexican cartel.
‘The cartel cut you off?’ a shocked Adams asked, to which the 60-year-old replied, ‘They did, they did.’
‘They had never seen someone acquiring that kind of weight. The only other people that they were delivering that kind of weight to, were dealers,’ Sheen continued.
‘They thought I was dealing on the side.’
‘Is it true that you were smoking seven-gram rocks of crack cocaine?’ an amazed Adams asked.
Charlie Sheen (pictured) knows how to deliver shock and awe when it comes to describing his colourful life
‘Well, we never took one out and put it on a scale,’ Sheen explained.
‘But that was the amount that was cooked to get it into that form.’
Sheen added that at one stage he said, ‘We’re going to need a bigger pipe’ before laughing and saying, ‘It’s kind of funny, no?’
A bemused Adams replied, ‘It is funny, but also, you are lucky to be alive.’
Sheen admitted, ‘I know.’
Elsewhere in the chat, Sheen said that he confessed to having slept with men in his eye-opening book and Netflix documentary partly because he was being blackmailed and wanted to ‘take the bullets out of some guns that were still pointed in my direction.’
Sheen said his message was, ‘You no longer have any control over me with your extortion demands.’
‘That’s not what led the charge. That’s more of an off-label benefit to making that decision,’ he added.
The American actor appeared on Australia’s edition of 60 Minutes on Sunday night and left reporter Amelia Adams stunned when he admitted that his mammoth consumption of cocaine once led to him being cut off by a Mexican cartel
‘The cartel cut you off?’ a shocked Adams (pictured) asked, to which the 60-year-old replied, ‘They did, they did’
The actor who was supported by ex-wife Denise Richards at the premiere of the Netflix docuseries Aka Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles, opened up about his past liaisons in his projects.
‘I flipped the menu over,’ the Wall Street actor revealed in the upcoming book and TV show of his decision to have sexual encounters with members of the same sex, according to People.
‘I’m not going to run from my past, or let it own me,’ he told People in an interview promoting both projects.
Sheen said he was using crack when his sexual escapades with men occurred.
‘That’s what started it,’ Sheen told the publication.
‘That’s where it was born, or sparked. 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.’
In an appearance on Good Morning America, Sheen was asked about why he kept these particular experiences with men a secret.
‘It did come with a tremendous amount of extortion. So, at the time, I was just, “All right, let’s just pay to keep it quiet, and hope it stays there, make it go away,”‘ he said of his reasoning.
In Aka Charlie Sheen, when he’s asked how it feels to be talking publicly for the first time about having sex with men, The Platoon actor replied, ‘Liberating. It’s f-cking liberating’
‘They had videoed things or whatever and had stuff over me, so that was kind of held hostage, you know, and that’s a bad feeling.’
He said he decided to reveal his HIV status in 2015 because ‘I just need to be free of that and then see how the world feels if people know that stuff.’
Sharing the news he said, ‘was a tremendous relief.’
In Aka Charlie Sheen, when he’s asked how it feels to be talking publicly for the first time about having sex with men, The Platoon actor replied, ‘Liberating. It’s f-cking liberating… [to] just talk about stuff. It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A f***ing piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me,’ per People.
Sheen has since quit drugs and said he has been completely sober for eight years.
He has since tried to make amends to those he hurt, and is adamant he doesn’t want those reading his book or watching the docu-series to feel like he’s trying to play the victim.
Sheen, born Carlos Irwin Estévez, is the son of Emmy winner Martin Sheen, 85. He began acting in small parts in his father’s movies, but made a name for himself in 1983’s Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, and had his breakout performance in 1986’s Platoon, as a young recruit sent to fight in the Vietnam war.
He played a morally challenged stock broker in 1987’s Wall Street, a film which earned co-star Michael Douglas the Academy Award for Best Actor.
The Book of Sheen was released September 9 and Aka Charlie Sheen debuted on Netflix September 10
The actor became a household name as a wild bachelor in the hit series Two and a Half Men, until he was fired in 2011 for erratic behaviour due to his drug use.
Today, Sheen, who is the father of five, is living a much quieter life.
He shares Cassandra, 40, with his high school sweetheart Paula Profit. He and ex-wife Denise Richards share daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 20.
The Young Guns star is dad to twins Bob and Max, 16, from his marriage to ex Brook Mueller.
‘My romantic life is as uneventful as it possibly could be, and it’s been that way for a long time,’ he told People.
‘It wasn’t even by choice, but the girls [Sami and Lola] moved in and then when they moved out, the boys moved in, and there wasn’t enough room in the car,’ he explained.
‘Plus, I spent so much time and energy chasing that for so long. I had to get to a place where I could be alone, but not lonely.’
The Book of Sheen was released September 9 and Aka Charlie Sheen debuted on Netflix September 10.
