Charlie Sheen Opens Up About Sexual Experiences With Men

Charlie Sheen isn’t holding back.

The former “Two and a Half Men” star spoke with People on Friday about his upcoming Netflix documentary, “aka Charlie Sheen.” In the two-part series, Sheen opens up about his past sexual experiences with men.

“Liberating. It’s fucking liberating… [to] just talk about stuff,” he says in the documentary, per People. “It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A fucking piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me.”

Sheen went on to unpack the context behind his exploration. According to him, his same-sex experiences began during a period when he was using crack cocaine — a time he described as both chaotic and revealing.

“That’s what started it,” he said, explaining how drug use opened the door. “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 fucking fun, and life goes on.”

It was during his years of intense drug usage that Sheen contracted HIV, which he revealed in a now-famous interview with Today in 2015. Sheen said he learned he was HIV positive four years before the interview aired, and had paid millions of dollars to “unsavory” people who had blackmailed him by threatening to reveal his diagnosis.

Initially, Sheen said he feared he had a brain tumor, but after extensive testing, he was finally given the real diagnosis — something he called a “turning point” in his life.

As for whether he’s ever transmitted the virus to another person?

“Impossible,” he told Today.