{"id":2007408,"date":"2025-09-08T21:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2007408"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:51:03","slug":"charlie-sheen-says-he-was-held-hostage-by-his-private-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/charlie-sheen-says-he-was-held-hostage-by-his-private-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Sheen says he was &#8216;held hostage&#8217; by his private life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>Charlie Sheen wants to free himself from feeling like he\u2019s being held hostage by his private life.<\/p>\n<p>To shed that sensation, the \u201cWall Street\u201d star decided to talk about his sexual past in his memoir, \u201cThe Book of Sheen,\u201d which comes out Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>People from his past \u201chad video things or whatever and had stuff over me,\u201d the actor told Michael Strahan on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/video\/125356770\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning America<\/a>.\u201d \u201cSo I was kind of held hostage, you know, and that\u2019s just a bad feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheen talked Friday on the morning show about how his drug addiction led him to have sex with men \u2014 he called it \u201cthe other side of the menu\u201d \u2014 and how he was forced to pay people to keep those sexual encounters out of the public eye. <\/p>\n<div class=\"enhancement\" data-click=\"enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"video-enhancement\" data-video-disable-history=\"\">\n<div class=\"video-enhancement-player\">  <ps-youtubeplayer data-video-player=\"\" class=\"youtube-video-player video-player youtube-video-player-facade\" data-player-id=\"fc8a7862e5c1046f6a3b5b2105a49e65f\" data-video-id=\"cXLVBEZHCng\" data-video-title=\"Charlie Sheen on his stutter and its connection to him drinking\" data-slot-name=\"\/21787098806\/web.latimes\/entertainment-arts\/video\" data-lazy-offset=\"1.0\" data-autoplay-threshold=\"50\" data-miniplayer=\"\" data-internal-video-id=\"cXLVBEZHCng\" data-ad-slot-name=\"\/21787098806\/web.latimes\/entertainment-arts\/video\" data-ad-provider=\"ima\" data-ima-sdk-url=\"https:\/\/imasdk.googleapis.com\/js\/sdkloader\/ima3.js\" data-ima-ad-tag-url=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ads?sz=640x480&amp;gdfp_req=1&amp;env=vp&amp;output=vast&amp;unviewed_position_start=1&amp;cmsid=2652439&amp;ad_rule=0&amp;plcmt=1\">  <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi_webp\/cXLVBEZHCng\/maxresdefault.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/cXLVBEZHCng\/maxresdefault.jpg\"\/> <\/picture> <button type=\"button\" class=\"youtube-video-player-facade-button\" aria-label=\"Play\"> <svg class=\"icon\"><use xlink:href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/styleguide\/assets\/misc-icons.svg#icon-youtube-play\"\/><\/svg> <\/button>      <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div>\n<p class=\"video-enhancement-title\">Cherlie Sheen on his sexual encounters with men and feeling hostage by his private life. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>He also hit on less salacious revelations like the connection between his stutter and his drinking. In the book, Sheen writes about masking his inability to pronounce certain words and sounds with drinking alcohol. \u201cDrinking soften the edges,\u201d he told Strahan. \u201cIt gave me freedom of speech.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>After joining the ABC show \u201cSpin City\u201d in 2000 and reading the script, he said, Sheen stopped hiding his speech impediment and asked for help. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen in doubt, just be human enough to be vulnerable,\u201d he told \u201cGMA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheen also reveals in the book that some folks wanted to expose his HIV-positive diagnosis before <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/gossip\/la-et-mg-martin-sheen-charlie-sheen-hiv-announcement-20151118-story.html\">he went public with it<\/a> in 2015, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/charlie-sheen-opens-up-about-sexual-encounters-with-men-in-new-memoir-and-documentary-11801842\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. Sheen said on \u201cGMA\u201d that finally revealing his diagnosis was a \u201ctremendous relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d actor \u2014 whose paycheck for the sitcom was estimated at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/tv\/la-xpm-2011-jan-31-la-et-0131-charlie-sheen-20110131-story.html\">as much as $2 million per episode<\/a> \u2014 infamously landed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/blogs\/ministry-of-gossip\/story\/2010-02-23\/charlie-sheen-enters-rehab-as-a-preventative-measure\">in rehab in 2010 after <\/a>threatening his ex-wife Brooke Mueller with a knife, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/blogs\/show-tracker\/story\/2010-10-26\/two-and-a-half-men-feels-heat-again-after-latest-charlie-sheen-meltdown\">trashed his room<\/a> at the Plaza Hotel in New York and in 2011 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/blogs\/ministry-of-gossip\/story\/2011-03-07\/charlie-sheen-is-fired-bring-on-the-moral-turpitude\">was fired from his CBS sitcom<\/a> amid <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/blogs\/ministry-of-gossip\/story\/2011-03-08\/charlie-sheen-are-we-witnessing-the-crash-in-sheens-korner\">a meltdown of epic proportions<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>During the \u201cGMA\u201d interview, Strahan asked the actor if he had any regrets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do,\u201d Sheen said, \u201cbut there\u2019s no value in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A documentary about the actor\u2019s life, \u201caka Charlie Sheen,\u201d will premiere Wednesday on Netflix. Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, told People he decided to be vulnerable about his past because he wants to own his truth and his stories. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stories I can remember anyway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Sheen wants to free himself from feeling like he\u2019s being held hostage by his private life. To shed that sensation, the \u201cWall Street\u201d star decided to talk about his sexual past in his memoir, \u201cThe Book of Sheen,\u201d which comes out Tuesday. 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