Charlie Sheen has expanded on his previous revelations about engaging in sexual experiences with men, a topic he first introduced in his memoir earlier this year.
The star of “Wall Street” explained that these encounters were not what he considers “full-fledged” sexual experiences.
The 60-year-old actor’s memoir, “The Book of Sheen,” released alongside the Netflix docuseries “aka Charlie Sheen” last month, has generated significant buzz due to his candid discussions about these same-sex interactions.
However, Sheen feels that his statements have been misunderstood by the public.
“When people hear ‘sex with men,’ they immediately think of, well, anal sex. I apologize for being blunt, but that’s often where people’s minds go,” he explained during an appearance on “In Depth with Grant Bersinger.”
Sheen clarified further, stating, “That wasn’t the case.”
Charlie Sheen has gone into more detail about having sex with men after breaking the news in his memoir earlier this year. The Wall Street star clarified his sexual experiences with the same sex weren’t ‘full-fledged.’ Seen in 2011
The 60-year-old actor released his memoir The Book of Sheen and Netflix docuseries aka Charlie Sheen last month and caused a stir with his revelations about same-sex encounters. But he believes his disclosure has led to a major misconception
The ex of Denise Richards continued: ‘I don’t want to be like, “Okay, I did this thing, but this and that part of it didn’t happen.” But it didn’t.
‘I don’t know that that matters, but that’s the only part of it that I’m like, it wasn’t full-fledged, man… They say you experiment in college, you know? I never went to college, so maybe that explains it.’
The former Two and a Half Men star – who has Sami, 21, and Lola, 20, with second wife Richards, 16-year-old twins Max and Bob with third spouse Brooke Mueller, and daughter Cassandra Estevez, 41, with a high school girlfriend – insisted he wasn’t trying to clarify the situation out of regret or judgement.
He added: ‘It’s not a shame thing. It’s just kind of like a, “Huh, [sex with men] is a bit of a broad category.”‘
Charlie previously admitted he first started experimenting with men in the midst of his drug addiction and said: ‘Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f****** fun’.
Speaking on Good Morning America, he added: ‘That’s what started it. That’s where it was born, or sparked. And in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it – “Where did that come from?… Why did that happen?” – and then just finally being like, “So what?’ So what?”Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f****** fun, and life goes on.’
However, he admitted he was extorted by people who knew his secret.
He said: ‘It did come with a tremendous amount of extortion. And so at the time, I was just like, “Alright, let’s just pay to keep it quiet. And just hope it just stays over there, make it go away, you know? Make it go away.”‘
‘When people say “sex with men,” you immediately think of, like, butt sex. Sorry to be graphic, but that’s kind of where the mind goes, right?’ he shared on Speaking on In Depth with Grant Bersinger
Sheen then said, ‘It wasn’t that.’ A look at his book cover
He was wed to Playboy pinup and former Bond girl Denise Richards; seen in 2002 in Beverly Hills
‘I just need to be free of that … and then see how the world feels if people know that stuff.
‘Because I’ve written a story all these years about, “Oh jeez, if I ever reveal that, then this has to be how I’d be dealt with, how I’d be treated, how they’d feel.”‘
And the son of actor Martin Sheen admitted it was ‘liberating’ to speak out.
When asked in his documentary how it felt to be talking for the first time about having sex with men, Charlie answered: ‘Liberating. It’s f****** liberating… [to] just talk about stuff. It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me.’
