As reported earlier, Charlie Sheen went on the Today Show to talk about his HIV-positive diagnosis after he was extorted out of millions of dollars by people he trusted, whom were threatening to go to the press about the news of his illness.
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Instead, his discussion of his health condition on national TV only served to confirmed what, as it appeared, many already knew.
Sheen went on to say that it was his son who had got in contact with the Today Show to do the interview.
Martin Sheen is now opening up about Charlie Sheen’s HIV diagnosis.
He said he had paid “enough to bring it into the millions”, perhaps as much as $10m, to buy their silence and now was seeking to “put a stop to this barrage of attacks and sub-truths”. The “Human Centipede III” actress said that after hearing reports on Monday about Sheen’s rumored diagnosis, she immediately had an HIV test, which came back negative.
“It’s a hard three letters to absorb”.
Charlie Sheen’s manager has denied claims made by the actor’s ex-girlfriend Bree Olson that he never disclosed his HIV-positive status during the course of their relationship in 2011.
Magic Johnson, who announced in 1991 that he was infected, says the virus is no longer detected in his blood. The Hollywood star further said that it is “impossible” that he has knowingly passed the virus on to anyone else.
“I have a responsibility now to better myself and to help a lot of other people”, he said. But Sheen claims Olson, 29, doesn’t have a case because he only found out after he returned to Los Angeles from his Violent Torpedo of Trust US tour, which ended on May 3, 2011, nearly two weeks after she broke up with him.
“I mean, if I had met him on one night, and we had chose to engage in this, I’d say, ‘That’s Russian Roulette.’ The reality is, we had known each other for many months before we engaged in [sexual relations], and we were a couple, I was in love with him”. I was living with him.
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When asked why she thought her ex allegedly kept the information from her, Olson simply answered that she believes Sheen “doesn’t care”.
