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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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  • Charlie Sheen On Sobriety: It Had To Be Done

    Charlie Sheen On Sobriety: It Had To Be Done

    “I made some changes to give myself a shot to do some cool things professionally. And I’m proud of finally being consistent. And reliable. And noble,” Sheen said.

    Charlie Sheen, who celebrated one year of sobriety in December after one of the most infamous public relapses in recent years, said that getting sober was a necessity. 

    Talking about his announcement of being one year sober, Sheen told Extra, “That was good, that was good, yes, indeed — had to be done, had to be done.” 

    Two weeks before Christmas, Sheen posted a picture of his one-year chip from Alcoholics Anonymous, adding a caption “so, THIS happened yesterday! a fabulous moment, in my renewed journey. #TotallyFocused.”

    He had formerly revealed that he had started drinking and abusing drugs after being diagnosed with HIV in 2012. However, he said that today he is in good health, physically, mentally and emotionally.  

    “I feel good,” he said. 

    Sheen was speaking at the California Strong Celebrity Softball Game, which was organized to help fund recovery efforts from natural disasters, including the fires in California. Sheen said that supporting his community in Malibu was important to him. 

    He said, “It’s where I grew up, been here since, jeez, 1970.”

    Sheen told Us Weekly, “I made some changes to give myself a shot to do some cool things professionally. And I’m proud of finally being consistent. And reliable. And noble.”

    Before his diagnosis of HIV, Sheen had been sober for 11 years, so he knows that long-term sobriety is possible, he said during an interview with Dr. Oz in 2016. 

    “There was a stretch where I didn’t drink for 11 years. No cocaine, no booze for 11 years. So I know that I have that in me,” he said, according to People.

    Despite his long-term sobriety, Sheen said that he didn’t have adequate healthy coping mechanisms to help him deal with his HIV diagnosis and the worries about what the disease would mean for his life. 

    “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,” he said. “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’s father, Martin Sheen, who is in recovery from alcoholism, has spoken publicly about how hard it was to watch his son relapse, knowing there was nothing he could do to intervene. 

    “What he was going through, we were powerless to do much, except to pray for him and lift him up,” Martin Sheen said in 2015.

    However, he said that his experience with addiction has helped him to understand what his son was going through in active addiction. 

    “The best way to heal is to help healing someone else, and it takes one to know one, so you can appreciate what someone’s going through if you’ve gone there yourself,” Martin Sheen said. 

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  • Charlie Sheen Is One Year Sober

    Charlie Sheen Is One Year Sober

    Charlie Sheen announced his sober milestone on Twitter this week.

    After one of the most well-publicized relapses in history, actor Charlie Sheen revealed this week that he has been sober for one year. 

    Sheen, 53, posted a picture of his one-year AA chip on Twitter, writing, “so, THIS happened yesterday! a fabulous moment, in my renewed journey. #TotallyFocused.”

    It’s an important step for Sheen, who has a long and complicated history with both substance abuse and recovery. In 2016, Sheen spoke with Dr. Mehmet Oz, who asked how many times the actor has tried to stop drinking. 

    “About 2,000,” Sheen said, according to People. “There was a stretch where I didn’t drink for 11 years. No cocaine, no booze for 11 years. So I know that I have that in me.”

    Sheen said he initially relapsed after receiving an HIV diagnosis in 2012. 

    “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 said. “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 told Oz then that he is committed to helping find a cure for HIV and wants his children to see that he inspired others, despite his demons. 

    “They’re going to see that dad is a true hero. That he helped a lot of people and continues to help people who can’t help themselves,” Sheen said.

    He added that when he was using he was “hammered, fractured, crazy,” but in recovery he is “focused, sober, hopeful.”

    Sheen’s father, Martin Sheen, who is in long-term recovery himself, has spoken about supporting his son through the tough times but also knowing when there is nothing left to do. 

    “What he was going through, we were powerless to do much, except to pray for him and lift him up,” Martin said in 2015.

    However, once Sheen was ready for help, his father was able to draw on his recovery and AA experience to help his son. 

    “The best way to heal is to help healing someone else, and it takes one to know one, so you can appreciate what someone’s going through if you’ve gone there yourself,” Martin said in September of this year. 

    He added that getting sober in the spotlight adds another challenge to an already fraught situation. 

    “The bigger your celebrity, the more difficult it is to lead an honest life, because your past is always present,” Martin said. “I think today makes it that much harder for people because there’s no privacy. I think that the idea of anonymity is very important to the [recovery] program, and it has an energy all its own.”

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  • Martin Sheen On Sobriety, Supporting Charlie Sheen

    Martin Sheen On Sobriety, Supporting Charlie Sheen

    “I think all of us are striving to lead honest lives. That’s a requirement of every human being.”

    Actor Martin Sheen addressed the many challenges experienced by his son, Charlie Sheen, at a charity event in Los Angeles on September 24.

    The 78-year-old actor, who currently appears in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, folded his son’s experiences with alcohol, drugs and his very public meltdown into statements about selflessness, family unity and the importance of finding a means of giving back to the world at large at an benefit for the nonprofit The People Concern by LA Chefs for Human Rights.

    Sheen, who was being awarded with LA Chefs’ Human Rights Hero Award for his work with the homeless in Los Angeles, said that he was proud of his son’s efforts to follow a healthier path and admit to his past discretions. “I think all of us are striving to lead honest lives,” said Sheen. “That’s a requirement of every human being.”

    Sheen, who also battled alcoholism, said that charity and helping others can also be beneficial to one’s own problems. “The best way to heal is to help healing someone else, and it takes one to know one, so you can appreciate what someone’s going through if you’ve gone there yourself,” he noted.

    In an interview with AARP Magazine, Sheen said that upon getting sober through his Catholic faith, he turned to Alcoholics Anonymous to gain perspective on how to help Charlie with his dependency issues, which ultimately entailed him turning over his son to authorities for probation violation in 1998 as a last-ditch attempt to get him into rehabilitation.

    Martin Sheen admitted that bringing his son to help felt, at times, almost insurmountable. “What he was going through, we were powerless to do much, except to pray for him and lift him up,” he told Radio Times in 2015. Being in the glare of the celebrity spotlight also posed its own set of unique roadblocks. “The ego, the cover, the availability of stuff – it’s bread for destruction, the celebrity’s life,” he explained.

    To counter the siren call of the dangerous side of fame, Sheen said that giving over one’s most precious commodities – time and ability – can become an oasis.

    “When you come to understanding that the only thing you can ever possess is the thing that you cherish, and you give away with love, including your precious time and talent,” he explained. “That’s why volunteering is so important, because that’s the only thing we can take with us when the job is over. The only things you can take with you are the things which you cherish and gave away with love.”

    Sheen expressed pride and gratitude in Charlie’s latest attempt to live a clean and sober life. “The bigger your celebrity, the more difficult it is to lead an honest life, because your past is always present,” said the elder Sheen. “I think today makes it that much harder for people because there’s no privacy. I think that the idea of anonymity is very important to the [recovery] program, and it has an energy all its own.”

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