Overview

• The Book of Sheen was published Sept. 9, with two-part documentary aka Charlie Sheen set to stream on Netflix Sept. 10.
• Sheen told Good Morning America he used alcohol to blunt a lifelong stutter, saying drinking “softened the edges” and gave him “freedom of speech.”
• In his memoir and recent interviews, he discloses having sex with men during a drug-fueled period and says he paid to keep encounters private due to extortion threats.
• Sheen writes that heavy use of a topical testosterone cream contributed to the erratic behavior surrounding his 2011 Two and a Half Men meltdown, a detail he presents as explanation rather than excuse.
• He says he has been sober since 2017, credits fatherhood with reshaping his priorities, reports being celibate since getting clean, and maintains he never transmitted HIV after his 2011 diagnosis and 2015 disclosure.