Charlie Sheen Admits He Didn't Tell Women About His HIV, Regrets Ruining 'Men'
"Protection was always in place," the 50-year-old actor told Matt Lauer on the 'Today' show. Sheen said he didn't always come clean because he was scared the secret would be used against him. "Everyone I had told up to that moment had shaken me down," he said as he spoke about a prostitute who took a photo of his antiretroviral medication and threatened to out him. Asked about his regrets, Sheen also admitted that he played with fire and didn't always use a condom. "I regret not using a condom the one or two times when this whole thing happened," he said. "I regret ruining Two and a Half Men. I regret not being more involved in my children's lives growing up, which I am now." "That's about it. We can only move forward from today. They wouldn't call it the past if it wasn't." Sheen said revealing his battle with HIV has been "like being released from prison." He's part of a study for a drug called PRO 140, in which he takes one shot per week as opposed to several pills daily. "The change is not just physical, but it's psychological, it's emotional," he said. "There's no depression, there's no shades of dementia. This is the future of treatment, what I'm doing now."
Charlie Sheen is admitting that he didn't always tell women about his HIV-positive status but insists he didn't put any partners at risk.
June 22, 2016 | |
