Estevez touched on his brother’s recovery in a recent interview.
Post-HIV diagnosis, Charlie Sheen remains committed to staying sober and doing well, according to his brother.
In an interview with People Now, Emilio Estevez, star of Mighty Ducks, stated that he’d like to work with his brother in the future and implied that a new project may even be in progress. He added that Sheen was doing well with his recovery from substance use disorder, post-HIV diagnosis.
“He’s great,” Estevez told People. “Amazing. I mean, he’s very public about where he’s at right now and we’re just proud of him.”
The hosts of People Now also brought up the fact that Sheen had recently been on the cover of Maxim U.K., to which Estevez responded, “It’s good work if you can get it.”
Sheen first announced his HIV diagnosis on Today in 2015, stating he had been diagnosed four years earlier.
“It started with what I thought was a series of crushing headaches,” he said at the time. “I thought I had a brain tumor. I thought it was over.”
According to Today, Dr. Robert Huizenga, Sheen’s physician, spoke to the importance of the actor maintaining sobriety so he could manage his diagnosis and take his medications.
“We’re petrified about Charlie. We’re so, so anxious that if he was overly depressed, if he was abusing substance, he would forget these pills and that’s been an incredible worry,” Huizenga said.
However, some time after his diagnosis, Sheen relapsed. Prior to his diagnosis in 2012, Sheen had been sober for 11 years. But in the aftermath, he returned to leaning on substances to cope for a period of time.
“It was to suffocate the anxiety and what my life was going to become with this condition and getting so numb I didn’t think about it,” Sheen told Dr. Oz at the time. “It was the only tool I had at the time, so I believed that would quell a lot of that angst. A lot of that fear. And it only made it worse.”
Sheen also told Dr. Oz that while using, he was “hammered, fractured, crazy,” but in recovery he remains “focused, sober, hopeful.”
Now, Sheen found his way back to recovery. In December 2018, the actor announced on Twitter that he was celebrating one year of sobriety.
“So, THIS happened yesterday! a fabulous moment, in my renewed journey. #TotallyFocused,” the tweet read.