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Charlie Sheen’s coming clean about his struggles in life after nearly eight years of sobriety.<\/p>\n
Sheen admitted he “lit the fuse” that blew his life apart in the early 2000s in the trailer for the upcoming Netflix documentary, “aka Charlie Sheen<\/a>.”<\/p>\n The two-part series, which debuts Sept. 10, will track the rise and fall of Sheen’s stardom during his drug use and violent past.<\/p>\n Charlie Sheen’s Ex Denise Richards Admits She Lied To Their Kids To Hide Star’s Scandalous Beavior<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “When you got a lot of shame about a lot of stuff … shame is, shame is suffocating,” Sheen explained in the trailer. “I lit the fuse, and, you know, my life turns into everything it wasn’t supposed to be.”<\/p>\n The documentary will feature prominent people in Sheen’s life, including ex-wives Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller<\/a>, and “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorre and his former co-star Jon Cryer. One of Sheen’s daughters with Richards also appears in the trailer, stating, “You can’t really have a relationship with someone going through addiction.”<\/p>\n Read On The Fox News App<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The TV star’s former drug dealer also makes an appearance.<\/p>\n “When Charlie said he was smoking seven\u2011gram rocks, he was smoking seven\u2011gram rocks,” the dealer said.<\/p>\n Actors Sean Penn and Chris Tucker are featured as well, with Penn stating, “Now, Charlie’s sober. He’s going to tell you the truth.”<\/p>\n Public scrutiny of Sheen’s behavior<\/a> seemingly first began in the late 1980s after he filmed “Wall Street.” Sheen, who was in his 20s, had begun drinking all the time.<\/p>\n “We shot in New York City, so I’d be out to the bars every night till 3 or 4 a.m., then try to show up for a 6 o’clock call to stand toe to toe with Michael Douglas and handle 50% of a scene,” Sheen once admitted, according to Imdb<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tori Spelling Claims Charlie Sheen Once Handed Her A \u2018Hot Crack Pipe\u2019 When She Walked Into His Condo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “How could that work? Yet there I was, the guy that struck gold, looking around at dawn to find that the only one still partying was me. I’d be drinking away, doing blow [cocaine], popping pills and telling myself I wasn’t an addict because there wasn’t a needle stuck in my arm. Talk about mixing up fantasy and reality. My true addiction was alcohol.<\/p>\n “The extra-toxic boosters just helped me shore up the wall between my celebrity self and my real self. The questions I was running from were: ‘Is this success all a fluke? Had I been fooling everybody so far? Will I get caught?’ It was easy to get hammered and messed up. But, in doing so, I buried my self-respect, I buried my self-esteem, I buried my creative drive and I damned near buried myself.”<\/p>\n Despite multiple rehab stays throughout the next 10 years, Sheen overdosed<\/a> on cocaine in 1998.<\/p>\n The “Hot Shots!” actor had a stroke and was treated at the critical care unit at Los Robles Regional Medical Center, according to CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We are in the stages, right now, of recovery,” his father, Martin Sheen, told reporters at the time. “It is my hope that he will accept recovery and become free. I am asking all of his friends and fans to pray for him.”<\/p>\n Charlie Sheen’s Daughter Sami Claims She Was Nearly Sex Trafficked<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n