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  • Charlie Sheen Graduates From Rehab, Recalls "Chaos" Of Addiction

    Charlie Sheen Graduates From Rehab, Recalls "Chaos" Of Addiction

    “You get tired of apologizing for things that you can’t remember doing. The amends can’t just be words, they have to be actions,” Sheen said.

    Charlie Sheen, speaking in an interview on Loose Women, announced he has graduated from rehab. On the show, he revealed his biggest motivator for getting sober: being unable to take care of his daughter. At times, he admitted, he felt like he was “possessed by a demon” when he craved alcohol.

    “To this day, I am not sure how I created such chaos and wound up in that headspace. It’s as though there was some alien or demonic possession going on,” he said.

    Sheen’s trouble with drugs and alcohol were highly public, including one infamous 2011 interview where he declared he was indeed on a drug—that he was all too familiar with.

    “I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen,” he told ABC News. “It is not available because if you try it once you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.”

    Now, after rehab and therapy, Sheen is 16 months sober. He spoke about how he feels about recovery in his recent interview with Loose Women.

    “You get tired of apologizing for things that you can’t remember doing. The amends can’t just be words, they have to be actions. It’s hard but not impossible,” Sheen said. “I said to the [therapist], ‘Is there an end point here?’… and there isn’t. It’s an ongoing thing. You make the amends when it is appropriate, it’s not about making them on your terms, it’s about approaching others on theirs.”

    Sheen’s decision to get sober came after one fateful day where he realized he was simply too drunk to help raise his own daughter.

    “I couldn’t get my daughter to an appointment that she had. I don’t drink and drive ever, I have never had a DUI,” he explained. “’I was like, ‘Wow, I am not even responsible enough to be available for my children’s needs.’ The next morning I woke up and was like, ‘Today is the day.’”

    Sheen believes he’s in a much better and safer state of mind now and doesn’t fear that he will relapse.

    “I have a game plan and I stick to it,” he said. “There is nothing left in that world, I exhausted it completely. The only thing left would be something catastrophic.” 

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  • Emilio Estevez Discusses Brother Charlie Sheen's Road To Recovery

    Emilio Estevez Discusses Brother Charlie Sheen's Road To Recovery

    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. 

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  • Charlie Sheen Shares Moment That Led Him To Become Sober

    Charlie Sheen Shares Moment That Led Him To Become Sober

    “If you can’t be available for the basic necessity of being there for your children, then something really needs to shift,” Sheen explained. 

    Actor Charlie Sheen’s drug use—and sobriety—has been a pursuit held in the public eye for years, but in a recent interview, he shared the very private moment which inspired him to change his life for the better for his family and himself.  

    Speaking with Us Weekly, Sheen said it was a request from his daughter for help, and his inability to provide it due to his inebriated state, that forced him to take a look at his behavior.

    “If you can’t be available for the basic necessity of being there for your children, then something really needs to shift,” he explained. Sheen, who recently reached a year of sobriety, added that he is putting his newfound focus and energy into “daily responsibilities,” including his children and his own health.

    In the interview, Sheen recalled the moment when one of his daughters asked him for help in getting to a pressing appointment. “I’d already had a few drinks,” he said, and was forced to call a friend to take him and his daughter to her destination. On the way back, Sheen said, he began to turn over the situation in his head.

    “On the drive back, I was just like, ‘Damn, man, I’m not available,’” he recalled. “‘I’m just not responsible and there’s no nobility in that.’” Sheen said that after pondering the reality of his condition, he decided to take matters seriously. “It was the next day that I said, ‘All right, it’s time. Let’s give this a shot.’”

    With the help of parents, Martin and Janet Sheen, his ex-wives, and friends, Sheen began to amass days of sobriety. “A month went by, a couple of months went by, I’m like, ‘All right. This feels good,’” he said.

    After marking his year in sobriety in December of 2018, Sheen said that he feels “excited to be excited again,” and has devoted his time and energy to his family and his own well-being.

    As for acting, Sheen told Us Weekly that he would like to do a Two and a Half Men revival to gain “closure” on the series, from which he was fired under a cloud of controversy in its ninth season.

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