Overview

• Sheen’s memoir, The Book of Sheen, was published Sept. 9, and the two-part Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen began streaming Sept. 10, featuring interviews with figures including Sean Penn, Denise Richards, Jon Cryer, Brooke Mueller and Heidi Fleiss.
• He told Good Morning America that alcohol once helped him mask a lifelong stutter, saying it "softened the edges" and gave him "freedom of speech."
• Sheen said drug-fueled periods included sex with men and payments to keep encounters private, describing feeling "held hostage" by potential exposure.
• In the book, he attributes some 2011 meltdown behavior to heavy use of a topical testosterone cream, which he says produced steroid-like effects, while stressing it is not an excuse.
• He reports being sober since 2017 and says he has been celibate in that span, emphasizes parenting, claims his past drug use was so extreme a cartel cut off his supply, and hints he may return to acting.