Overview

• A two-part Netflix documentary, Aka Charlie Sheen, charts his rise, public collapse and recovery while addressing addictions, sexual history and his 2015 HIV disclosure.
• Participants include Denise Richards, Jon Cryer, Sean Penn, Brooke Mueller and an ex-dealer, while Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez backed the project off camera and attended a private screening.
• In new interviews, Sheen describes extreme cocaine and crack use, claiming a Mexican cartel stopped selling to him because of the quantities he sought.
• He says he had sexual encounters with men during drug binges and previously paid under extortion threats, presenting the disclosures as removing others’ leverage.
• Sheen reiterates roughly seven to eight years of sobriety and says revealing his HIV status was a tremendous relief, as Cryer recalls watching him unravel during Two and a Half Men.