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Topics: Charlie Sheen, Netflix, Podcast
Joe Yates
Warning: This article contains discussion of drug addiction which some readers may find distressing.
Charlie Sheen has opened up in some detail about his past sexual encounters with men, getting brutally candid about what really went down - and what didn’t.
The 60-year-old actor, who recently released his memoir, The Book of Sheen, alongside a Netflix docuseries, has been making headlines over the past few months as he gets candid about his experiences during an extremely tumultuous time in his life.
Sheen previously revealed how he had sexual encounters with men, describing it as 'flipping over the menu', and in his book and docuseries, he said he'd begun using crack at the time.
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He told Good Morning America: "That's what started it. 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 f***ing fun. And life goes on."
However, on the In Depth with Grant Bersinger podcast, the Two and a Half Men star shared that there's a 'major misconception' about what those experiences actually involved.
"When people say 'sex with men', you immediately think of like butt sex - I mean, sorry to be graphic, but that's kind of like where the mind goes, right? And it wasn't that," the New Yorker explained.
"So, I don't want to be like, 'okay, I did this thing, but that part of it didn't happen' because it didn't, you know what I'm saying? And so, I don't know if that matters, but that's the only part of it that I'm like, 'it wasn't full-fledged, man! It was that s*** like you'll experiment with in college', you know? I never went to college, so maybe that explains it.
"But it's not a shame thing, it's just kind of like a huh, that's that's a bit of a broad category that was more specifically - the curiosity about that was more specific than that."
Bersinger then asked Sheen whether it was something that had already been on his mind or if the drugs he was consuming at the time gave him the 'confidence' to experiment with men.
"Sitting here, I don't really know," the father of five replied. "I'm not going to say, 'oh, yeah, it was absolutely the drugs', because there's two schools of thought - that the drugs, you know, open doors that are already somewhere in that house, or that they create them.
"So I don't know. It never happened without... without the, you know, insane amounts of of crack."
After breaking the taboo and revealing to the world his experience, Sheen described the feeling both in his book and Netflix series as: "Liberating. It's f***ing liberating."
The Book of Sheen and aka Sheen were released in September.
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