The 50-year-old actor said he was diagnosed with the HIV virus that causes AIDS roughly four years ago.
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While claiming he has previously shared the news with those he felt could handle it, he admitted that he has also paid out “upwards of $10 million” to keep the illness a secret.
“I have to stop this onslaught of attacks and sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories about the threatening the health of so many others which couldn’t be further from the truth”, the actor revealed. Instead, “my trust turned to their treason”.
He has five children from his marriages to model Donna Peele, actresses Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller, and other relationships. “I was making a lot of bad decisions”. His doctor Robert Huizenga, confirms that Sheen is on a healthy path right now taking four pills a day, but admits those close to him worry about a relapse into drugs and alcohol.
Sheen, who has previously boasted about sleeping with thousands of women and has been in and out of rehab for drink and drugs, said it was “impossible” that he could have transmitted HIV to anyone since his diagnosis. I’ve paid those people, not that many, but enough to bring it into the millions. He went on to say that after today, he would no longer continue paying these people. He said on the interview, he admitted that this [his diagnosis] was at the “Tiger Blood” time and that’s when I was with him.
For weeks there had been rumours circulating about a Hollywood actor who was HIV positive and have possibly infected his numerous sexual partners or put them at risk by not informing them of his status. “AIDS is a condition where the HIV virus markedly suppresses the immune system and you are susceptible to rare, hard cancers and infections”.
Charlie on Today on Tuesday, November 17.
He said that with the revelation he releases himself “from this prison”.
“I’m sure that’s next”, Sheen said.
The CEO of gay men’s health charity GMFA has responded to Charlie Sheen’s disclosure that he is living with HIV.
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In spring 2012, Sheen appeared to pull his act together and returned to TV as star of the FX comedy series Anger Management, which aired until December 2014.
