Charlie Sheen discussed his Two and a Half Men experience and the regrets that followed his decisions.
Seven months after he revealed he was HIV-positive, Charlie Sheen went back on “Today” to talk about living with the illness and what has changed since the initial interview. His HIV-positive status was like “being released from prison,” the “Two and a Half Men” actor said.
Sheen maintained his affinity for honesty when he admitted to some regrets. Since his public reveals, Sheen’s former fiancee has filed a lawsuit accusing him of assault, battery, false imprisonment, and failure to disclose to her that he was HIV-positive. When Lauer asked if any of the cases presented against him had merit, Sheen said “they do not” and that they were “baseless.”
Sheen also explained that his trip to Mexico to seek a controversial treatment from Dr. Sam Chachoua was in part due to what Lauer described as “pill fatigue” – an exhaustion from taking pills every day and from their side effects. “That man is a criminal,” Sheen said. “He’s hurting a lot of good and decent people.”Now, Sheen is in the third phase of a FDA trial in which he receives one shot per week as opposed to pills daily. “The change is not just physical, but it’s psychological, emotional,”
he said. “This is the future of treatment.” During an interview with Today‘s Matt Lauer, Sheen revealed his biggest regrets concerning his life, career, and behavior. “I regret not using precaution one or two times when this whole thing happened,” he said. “I regret ruining Two and a Half Men. I regret not being more involved in my children’s lives growing up… But, we can only move forward from today, and they wouldn’t call it the past if it wasn’t.”
He further elaborated on the alternative treatment method he sought south of the border, one that made headlines for its unusual methodology. “That didn’t go so well. That man is a criminal; he’s a charlatan,” the 50-year old said, revealing that, while under Dr. Sam Chachoua’s care, the virus count in his bloodstream jumped from 0 to 7,000. “He’s hurting a lot of good and decent people.”
Sheen rose to prominence in the late 1980s, after roles in films like Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), and Major League (1989). He later made waves in 2011 after a public meltdown that resulted in his firing from the hit CBS series Two and a Half Men. The 50-year old later returned to TV on the FX sitcom Anger Management, which ran for 100 episodes between 2012 and 2014. Though it notched the most-watched premiere for a series in the network’s history, the show made headlines for the alleged on-set conflict between Sheen and costar Selma Blair, who left the series into its second season after reportedly clashing with the actor during production.
