Sheen confirmed he is HIV-positive in a headline-grabbing interview with USA newsman Matt Lauer on the Today show on Tuesday (17Nov15), when Rogen was also at the NY studio to record a segment promoting his new film, The Night Before.
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Explaining that actors have to disclose health issues such as cold sores, she said: “I don’t even know how to feel about that”.
She said: “I wouldn’t sleep with anybody until I got the right paperwork, so the fact that playing his love interest on the show, I go like “ick, ugh, that’s not fair”. The previous Playboy model – who played Charlie Harper’s on-off lady mate, pal within the sitcom – has instructed the actor ought to have knowledgeable the women taking part in his lovers on the show. “I’m like, wait a second, ‘If I have to be up front about a herpes, how could you not be up front about HIV?'”.
“The point I raised about Charlie Sheen on my Sirius radio show, had nothing to do with whether or not I think he put me at risk”, she posted on Thursday. If I have to be upfront about a herpes, how could you not be upfront about HIV?’ I look back and I’m like, that would have been valuable information. The actress later expanded on her previous statements noting a double standard in Hollywood.
She said that she met Sheen’s doctor Robert Huizenga and that, after being told Sheen had “undetectable” levels of the virus in his blood, she took medication to help prevent the transmission of disease.
Sheen’s manager, Mark Burg, has responded to McCarthy’s comments by saying that Sheen was not HIV positive when they worked together.
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“Yet an actor who interacts physically with dozens of actresses in intimate scenes, is not required to disclose that he has HIV? I am not one of them”.
