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Charlie Sheen Says Mexican Cartel Cut Him Off Over Massive Drug Buys

He disclosed the claim in a 60 Minutes Australia interview promoting a memoir alongside a two-part Netflix documentary on his addiction and recovery.

Overview

  • Sheen says traffickers stopped selling to him after concluding the unusually large quantities he purchased meant he must be distributing on his own.
  • He recounted smoking crack cooked into roughly seven-gram rocks and quipped that he once thought he needed a bigger pipe.
  • The Book of Sheen and Netflix’s two-part aka Charlie Sheen anchor his public reckoning, with the actor stating he has been sober for about eight years.
  • Documentary director Andrew Renzi relays an ex-dealer’s account that product was increasingly cut with baking soda until none remained, a claim presented within the film.
  • Coverage revisits how Sheen’s substance abuse precipitated his 2011 firing from Two and a Half Men and the enduring personal and professional consequences.