Charlie Sheen: Crack use led me to gay encounters
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Charlie Sheen, star of Two and a Half Men, revealed in a new interview that after using crack, he developed a tendency toward sexual relations with men.
The 60-year-old New York-born actor, speaking ten years after disclosing his HIV diagnosis, told ABC’s Good Morning America: “It started with [crack]. It was born of that, or sparked by it.”
He went on to explain that during his crack use he tried to come to terms with his homosexuality: “[I thought:] ‘Where did this come from? Why did it happen?’ — and then finally I said: ‘What does it matter?’”
The Young Guns actor, who recently published his memoir The Book of Sheen, told People magazine: “I won’t run from my past or let it own me.”
Sheen added that some men who stayed at his house took photographs of his drug use in order to blackmail him later. At first, he paid them off, until in 2015 he disclosed publicly that he was HIV positive.
The Wall Street star also told Variety in another interview that a drug dealer once helped him in his recovery by cutting his drugs with baking soda.
