Charlie Sheen breaks the silence on his sexual experiences with men: “Talking about it is truly liberating”

Charlie Sheen, 59 years old, former star of Two and a half menhe decided to put his life made of bare of Excess, falls and rebirths In two new projects: the Memoir The Book of Sheento be released on September 9, and the Netflix documentary Aka Charlie Sheenavailable from 10 September.

In the pages of his biography and in the interviews, Sheen He faces the theme of his sexual experiences with men for the first time, and without reticence. “At one point I shot the menu on the other side,” he says irony, explaining that he wanted to experiment after years of relationships only with women. “I won’t run away from my past and don’t allow him to own me.”

When, in the documentary, they ask him how he feels to talk about it publicly for the first time, Sheen has no doubts: «It is liberating. Really liberating. The roof has not collapsed, a piano from the sky did not fall, nobody entered the room. It’s just talking Of things, that’s all. “

The actor explains that those experiences were born in the periods when he used Crack: «It started from there. Later, when I was sober, I tried to understand where that push came from, because it happened … then In the end I thought: So what? So what? Some things were strange, many more fun. And life goes on».

Just during those years, Sheen contracted HIV. For a period he tried to maintain the secret, until some people who attended did not start blackmailing him, photographing the medicines they found at home. At the beginning he paid for silence, then in 2015 he decided to publicly reveal his HIV positive. “I know for sure I have never transmitted it to anyone,” he underlines today.

With book and documentary, Sheen wants to “tell all the truth, without censorship”. He adds with Sarcasm: “At least the stories I remember.” Over the past eight years he has tried to make ancesting with those who had injured during the drug spiral and alcohol, but do not want to present themselves as a victim.

Today his life is much more peaceful. After two stormy divorces, by Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller, Sheen has been single for years. “My sentimental life is more boring than ever, And it has been going on for a while. It was not a choice: at a certain point the girls (the daughters Sami and Lola) came to live with me, then when they left the boys moved (the twins Bob and Max, 16 years old). There was no room for anything else. And then I spent so much time chasing love, that I needed to learn to be alone without feeling alone». This, however, does not mean that he has completely closed: «I am open to love, yes. At the wedding, probably not ».