Charlie Sheen Defends Sobriety, Rebukes Health and Money Questions in Netflix Documentary Push at 60
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 18
Charlie Sheen Defends Sobriety, Rebukes Health and Money Questions in Netflix Documentary Push at 60
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 18
Summary
Charlie Sheen used a Hollywood Reporter interview to promote Netflix’s “aka Charlie Sheen,” but pushed back when asked about his health and finances, saying his “presence” answered one and insisting, “I’m fine.”
The 60-year-old said he agreed to the documentary because director Andrew Renzi avoided tabloid exploitation and instead made what Sheen called a “love letter” to his father, Martin Sheen.
Family participation stayed limited: brother Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen declined to appear, even after Renzi showed them a rough cut; Martin told him the archive footage already had the “interesting, handsome” version of him.
Sheen framed the project around recovery rather than scandal, saying he has been sober for nearly eight years after getting clean in December 2017 and still deals with occasional “shame shivers” over his past.
The documentary and his memoir revisit the arc from a career that once paid him a reported $1.8 million per “Two and a Half Men” episode to addiction, rehab and his 2015 disclosure that he is HIV-positive.