Sheen said Monday<\/a>, telling an audience that once he \u201cfinally put down the bottle,\u201d his children started coming to his home.<\/p>\nSheen sat down with actor and writer David Duchovny during an event at 92nd Street Y, New York on Monday to discuss the writing process behind his memoir, \u201cThe Book of Sheen,\u201d his journey through sobriety and his passion for acting.<\/p>\n
The actor battled addiction throughout his decades-long career. Writing about it candidly, as he does in his book set to be released Tuesday, took years of self-reflection, he said.<\/p>\n
Sheen grew up on film sets and began creating home movies as a young child, before getting his big break starring in movies like \u201cPlatoon\u201d and \u201cWall Street.\u201d His decorated career in Hollywood, however, was accompanied by decades of drug abuse, legal battles, an HIV diagnosis and messy divorces.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a good guy,\u201d Sheen said. \u201cGood guys sometimes do some bad things but the only way to stay a good guy is to own that (expletive) and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
How Sheen’s memoir was brought to life<\/h2>\n
Amid jokes and lighthearted prodding, Duchovny applauded the memoir, which he described as \u201cnot vindictive at all. There\u2019s no animus against any other person in the book, even yourself, which I really appreciate. Not just your gentleness with other people, but your gentleness with yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
The book chronicles Sheen’s life from a near-death experience during his birth in 1965 to the moment he decided to get sober in 2017. It carries a unique writing style, with certain words purposefully misspelled and instead written the way Sheen sees them in his mind, he said. Dude, for instance, became \u201cdood.”<\/p>\n
Sheen said he was inspired by the narration and rhythm in \u201cApocalypse Now,\u201d the 1979 film his father, Martin Sheen, starred in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted it to feel like the reader was kind of in the room with me or at the small dinner party hearing this story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
His drug addiction and recovery is at the center of the book and addressed in the latter half of the discussion. Sheen spoke on the \u201cintense sexual component\u201d of a lot of the drugs he grew reliant on, including cocaine. When substance abuse is \u201cthe first bridge you build,\u201d the actor said, \u201cthat’s the one you’ll keep walking across.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sheen said he figured out early on that alcohol helped calm his stutter, which had negatively impacted his acting, and it turned into \u201cthe most difficult drug for me to deal with.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only part of the drinking that I could navigate was the first hour,\u201d Sheen said. \u201cBut, it\u2019s the next 500 hours or just the next 12 hours. So, once I can just abandon that fantasy of living inside that hour, then it is not a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sheen struggled to answer whether he\u2019d be open to acting in the future, noting that \u201cwriting the book was the most challenging job I\u2019ve ever had and hands down the most rewarding one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was incredible to have a job where I didn\u2019t have to get approval … it\u2019s just you and the page,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe I need to write the next thing I act in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLike daughter, like mother! Denise Richards is following in Sami Sheen’s footsteps. The “Real Housewives” alum has joined OnlyFans just days after her eldest child’s debut on the platform. Denise announced the news on Instagram and invited followers to check out her page, which costs $25 a month or $67.50 for a three-month subscription bundle. The actress previously defended Sami’s OnlyFans presence, and said on Instagram she wished she had the “confidence” the 18-year-old does.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Netflix documentary will unveil never-before-seen home movies<\/h2>\n
Sheen\u2019s career began young, making home movies with childhood friends like the Penn brothers, Chris and Sean, in the Malibu, California, neighborhood he grew up in.<\/p>\n
Clips from the movies, which had previously only been enjoyed by family and friends, will be featured in Sheen\u2019s upcoming Netflix two-part documentary, \u201caka Charlie Sheen,\u201d which will be released Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The movies, Sheen said, had simple plots, often revolving around a crime, a villain and someone seeking revenge. They were filmed on old cameras with props handed down by his father, Martin Sheen, and the Penn brother\u2019s parents, who were actors and directors themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody was surfing or skateboarding or doing other stuff and we just found a way to, just kind of emulate or mimic or copy what our parents were doing,\u201d Sheen said.<\/p>\n
The documentary, which includes interviews with Sean, felt like \u201cthe perfect place for them to finally be put on full display,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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