This weekend Bill Maher talked to Charlie Sheen on his first live comments about his sexual experiences with me. They talked about the new documentary where for the first time, Charlie Sheen is openly discussing his past sexual relationships with men. The 60-year-old actor, best known for Two and a Half Men, is sharing details in a new Netflix documentary, Charlie, and in his upcoming memoir, The Book of Sheen.
Sheen said in the documentary, “Liberating. It’s f—ing 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.”
Speaking to People for this week’s cover story, Sheen said that after years of being with women, he decided to explore. On Good Morning America, Sheen admitted his sexual experimentation with men began during his years using crack. “That’s what started it…Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f—ing fun.”
Sheen also revisited his HIV diagnosis, which he revealed publicly in 2015 after years of secrecy and blackmail. He told people, “I do know for a fact that I never passed it on.”
His past, however, remains complicated. In 2020, Corey Feldman alleged in the film My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys that the late Corey Haim once described being abused by Sheen as a child star. Sheen has firmly denied those allegations, calling them “sick, twisted and outlandish,” and urging people to consider Judy Haim’s defense of him.
Now, Sheen says the documentary and memoir let him finally share his story. As for romance, the actor describes his love life today as “uneventful as it possibly could be.” Still, he adds with a smile, he’s “open to love again. Probably not marriage, though!”
This weekend Sheen had an hilarious interview on Bill Maher’s Real Time show on HBO discussing whether he was top or bottom and his experimentation that may have lead to HIV, which Maher called AIDS and Sheen corrected him as HIV.
