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Men, men, men, men, manly men, men, men. Men, men, men, men, manly men, men,

men. Men, men, men, men, manly men.

Men,

men, men, men, manly men, men. I

worked with Charlie Sheen for eight years. And if

you wonder what it's like to work... with Charlie Sheen for eight years.

When I started, I had hair.

I had some trepidation about participating in this, partially because

the cycle of Charlie Sheen's life has been that he messes up terribly, he hits

rock bottom, and then he gets things going again, and he brings a lot of

positivity in his life, and that's when he burns himself out again, and he just

can't help.

that house on fire.

And I didn't want to be a part of that cycle.

You know, I'm not here to build him up, and I'm not here to tear him down.

But I sure hope this doesn't go bad.

It seemed like it was going to be like any other flight.

I wasn't, like, sloppy drunk.

But I was already pretty half in the bag, you know.

It was my first honeymoon.

And Donna was, I guess she was still reeling from the absence of romance in

soggy freaking wine excursion.

Platoon and Wall Street were huge in Japan. And so I was selling Madras

Tokyo gas, air conditioners and heaters, and Parliament cigarettes.

Donna was the model in the Parliament commercial.

But yes, tensions were high. We were both a little bit short with each other.

And I finally just say, fuck it. I needed something quick and strong.

So I power probably four, five, six dots.

You know, of course, a lot of people, like, recognize me.

The navigator was outside the cockpit.

Ah, Mr. Heen, would you like to come meet the captain? And I'm like, hell

right?

I go into the cockpit, and the captain gets up, and...

He says, can we get a photo?

And I said, yes, but it'd be really cool if I was in your captain's jacket.

He's like, yes, we need to show it.

It'd even be cooler if I was wearing your cap.

And he's like, yes, of course.

I said, I mean, if we're going to do this, let's go all the way.

Can I sit in your seat?

But I'm approaching pirate drunk.

The sun is just starting to peek through the horizon.

And just rested my hands on the controls.

George is flying the plane. That's like international code for autopilot, right?

And I said, just making a joke. I said, so is George still flying the plane? And

the co -pilot flicks a switch and says, nothing anymore.

I'm sitting there thinking, fuck.

I'm there, drunk.

Close to 300 people asleep behind me, an angry bride 20 feet behind me, and I

start guiding this plane.

Very, very subtle adjustments.

And this perfect, magical flying machine responded in a way that I

cannot put in words.

And then they saw that maybe this might get away from them.

And the copilot turned

George back on.

And so then I felt the plane just kind of settle back into where it knew that

needed to be, you know.

I sat back down, owning this experience, and I just knew that trouble was on the

horizon. After just five months, Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen and

Peeler calling it quits.

Drunk, off your ass, flying a passenger plane, 400 people behind you. Are you

thinking to yourself, holy shit, I'm untouchable? You know what I mean? Does

that happen? Does that go through a guy's mind when he has that kind of

Yes.

You know the best thing about diners? What's that?

There's no surprises.

If you walk into a diner with unrealistic expectations of what they

offer, go fuck yourself.

Cheers. Are you sober today? How long have you been sober?

I knew you were going to ask me that.

I am sober today. I'm in my seventh year, which is pretty good. But by the

people see this, unless things go tragically sideways, that will still be

case.

How do you imagine structuring the story of

Charlie Sheen?

I think we can break it down into these three portions or these three sections.

It was partying, partying with problems, and then just

problems.

Last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.

What are we talking about, how much?

I don't know, man. I was banging seven -gram rocks and finishing them because

that's how I roll. I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.

Charlie Sheen was among the clients of her $1 ,500 hookers.

Is there going to be anything off -limits?

No. You know there are a lot of rumors out there right now, and you would like

to address them head -on. I'm here to admit that I am, in fact, HIV positive.

When you've got a lot of shame about a lot of stuff, shame is suffocating.

And what's your husband's name?

Charlie. But in the same way, shame can turn into someone's North Star, you

know, or their South Star, or the Death Star, you know?

Where are you with it?

I'm, uh... He spent much of Christmas Day on lockdown.

I mean, the stuff that I plan on sharing, I had made a sacred vow years

only reveal to a therapist.

He judged me, he condemned me, he discarded me.

Well, not anymore.

Winning!

I think there's so many stories and so many ingrained images in people's minds

about the concept of me.

It's not even like think of me as a person. They think of me as a concept or

specific moment in time.

There's only one person alive that has the answers to so many people's

about me.

Fuck it. Somebody call action.

I was born dead.

Yeah, I had the umbilical wrapped.

There was no signs of life.

Dad was a devout Catholic and he was already looking for a priest to deliver

some last rites. And mom was way more optimistic. She had faith.

And the doctor beat me black and blue until there were signs of life.

So, good start.

When your life starts like that, basically doesn't start, it can do a

your head.

Her name is Carlos Erwin Estevez.

And Erwin came from the doctor that delivered me and saved me.

There's four of us.

I'm third.

And Ramon is right above me, Emilio's above him, and my sister's below me.

You must believe me. I'm telling the truth. Oh, you've lied so much.

The mission focus was Dad and his job.

Can you help me?

Listen, I'm going to get a hold of Frank Hamer. Have him take a look at you and

run some tests.

Ladies and gentlemen, Martin Sheen.

Lived in New York until I was three.

And then Dad, well, he decided early on.

Sell the furniture. You know, it's time.

We're outie.

Malibu was very rural at the time and kind of removed from Los Angeles and all

of that hubbub.

There was a freedom of spirit in the air, and the place wasn't overrun. It

wasn't super crowded. You could still travel the highway any time of the day

with relative ease.

It wasn't a community of mansions.

I met him before he was Charlie Sheen. I met him when he was Carlos Estevez.

People think that just because it was Martin Sheen that they grew up very

That's far from it.

I used to go over to his house and stay in, what do you call those, beanbags?

There was nothing, you know, extravagant about what they had. They didn't grow

up with that life.

And so you had auto mechanics and school teachers on your street. Nothing like

today.

And I say it was great because it was kind of like Huckleberry Finn by the

water.

We shared a moment of youth that's magic.

We were surrounded by an air of just a general freedom of expression.

I mean, they'll hate me for revealing this, but, you know, my parents, maybe

a month or five, I don't know, they practiced nudism, you know?

So, yeah, I'm five walking in the kitchen and there's my naked parents.

My parents gave us our first super camera when I was like six or seven.

Hey, brother, did you guys out there ever try this new American continental

hairdo, man?

It's the newest style, man.

You see, they just take a wet rag, man, and they rub it through your hair. It's

like a dinosaur's tail, man.

It's really weird, man.

We started instantly with, all right, here's how much time we have. Here's our

cast. Here's the plot.

So -and -so has done something to this person, and so this guy has to see

prevent.

And my brother Emilio was always with me.

It was really the only time that he and I were focused

on a common goal.

Everything outside of that was pretty uncommon.

We had a rivalry that went on for a long time.

Super 8 films.

That was our canvas.

Being on location with Dad really became our film school.

Especially during Apocalypse Now.

It was just one of those life -changing experiences, you know?

My dad always made that very clear that he wanted us all to be with him in his

work. He didn't want the family dynamic to suffer just because he had this job

somewhere else.

And I thought we were incredibly lucky to be able to go along with.

So I'm in the Philippines on Apocalypse. I think I was 11 by then.

The scope of the production, the length of the production, the exposure to

the talent.

Written by, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Our most influential and important filmmaker.

The man responsible for The Godfather. His current giant film took three and a

half years.

Your dad was struggling with substance abuse, right? Yeah. That was part of

story. Yeah. Did you know that?

I sensed it. There is a moment in the Philippines.

That is as crystal clear as though it happened yesterday.

And we were outdoors at lunch early at one of the tables, you know. I remember

dad sitting down right next to me. And I remember I could smell it. I could

smell the booze, you know. And he wasn't home. He wasn't there. And he had that

K -bar knife.

And he put it between his teeth.

And he turned to me with that knife between his teeth.

And I was just like.

He had departed.

So then I come to find out that that was in the middle of the opening sequence.

He was there for a couple of months without us and then started hearing

that Dad was sick.

Dave Salvin let Melissa tell Barry Hirsch that Marty had a heart attack.

What the fuck is that?

Do you know that it's going to be all over Hollywood in a half an hour?

If Marty dies, I want to hear that everything's okay until I say Marty is

You got it?

When we came back to the Philippines and saw him for the first time,

He was taking baby steps on a cane, and he was crying, and he was devoid of that

dad light.

It was gone, you know?

I had brought a couple of baseball gloves. I was playing baseball at the

And so we'd go out somewhere on the ground, and we'd start throwing the

And the first day, it might have been at five feet.

for 10 throws, and the next day it might have been at 10 feet for 15 throws, and

this went on and on and on until we were at a decent distance and, you know,

just playing catch.

He credits me with having a major hand in helping him during his rehab to get

his strength back, get his focus back, just get his life back.

Yeah, this fucking mattered.

Yeah, it was, it just redefined that age -old moment of a

father -son playing catch.

But it's hard not to visit that and not get a little choked up because I know

what it meant to him, what it still means to him, you know.

I think it's hard for sons to always, you know, share with their fathers

truly in their heart.

I hope he sees some of this as the love letter to him that it is.

Emilio and dad, they fully support me.

They're rooting for me in ways you can't even imagine.

I can't expect people to revisit all the drug abuse and all the shitty choices

that hurt people I love.

And, yeah, would I love them both in this? Absolutely. But I completely

understand why they chose not to.

You got me smoking now.

It's your second heart attack, then.

I guess I never told you.

But I love you, Dad.

We kept making Super 8 films back on the ranch.

Hey, hey, what are you doing? And after Apocalypse, the Super 8s got way darker.

A lot of murder in you.

Yeah.

Well,

look what was happening to our dad.

We were basically duplicating, emulating what dad was doing.

Bang,

bang.

My baby shot me down.

We got, I don't want to say numbed, but we kind of grew accustomed to watching

our father die on film.

Oh, my God.

I think we recognized early on that those type of plot lines were

What you are seeing here is a man in great pain.

Beaten by the mob and dying.

Martin was a big thing for all of us.

I'm doing nothing, man.

I'm here and I'm doing nothing.

Listen, so it's a little boring. It's a lot boring.

So I guess it felt like we were close to the actual world of it.

It's important to note that in and around a lot of the Super 8 film

there was a lot of weed involved.

So that was really like the first drug.

There was a lot of pot.

Drugs played a large role there. You know, as they got older and started

experimenting with everything.

It's weird.

I drank the stuff, and I can't seem to remember what happened next.

Yeah, and, you know, just the typical booze habits that kids that age would

have.

I think my first drink was a Mickey's Big Mouth. Remember those?

Yeah, I downed like two of them thinking this is how it's done, you know, and

then the next hour puking.

And then I guess the normal person parks it and says, well, that didn't work

out. The abnormal person says, all right, I'm feeling good enough to try

again, hopefully with a better result, you know.

And then you also have this other friend in Tony Todd who had nothing to do with

that. No, none of it. Do -do -do -do -do -do.

Tony Todd's one of my favorite people ever and one of my best friends in this

lifetime. He's as reliable and compassionate and loyal and committed as

anyone could ever ask for, you know? Well, every person needs a black friend,

I'm just kidding. But I think they do. What brought us together was our passion

for sports.

He's very competitive. I'm competitive.

Tony's never done a drug in his life.

I think he's had a sip of one drink.

Never had a drink with him.

I'm just there for him because I'm a friend.

He's been the most consistent for sure.

Yeah, he touched every decade, every era, every... all of it, you know.

Now, we want you to sort of go through the car like that.

I would think that we were going to be up high.

Emilio Estevez doesn't normally ride motorcycles, so he's listening very

carefully to stunt coordinator Nate Long.

This is Emilio's first major acting job, but he is no newcomer to the movie

business. As a matter of fact, if you look closely, he bears a good

to Martin Sheehan, one of Hollywood's most sought -after actors and star of

Apocalypse Now.

He uses his real name and keeps it a pretty good secret about his famous

Emilio and Dad had a huge fight about Emilio.

using Sheen or Estevez and dad wishing he'd stayed with Estevez to honor his

heritage and all that good stuff.

And then Emilio said, okay, all right, there is a better ring to Emilio and

Estevez. Emilio Sheen didn't have a flow, you know.

It was a house on fire for him, man. It was, he had opportunities that none of

us had even, you know, imagined before that.

Emilio pulled the focus quite a lot and he deserved it.

I don't know if that inspired Charlie, but I think he did see that maybe that's

something that's available to me, too.

He'd done legitimate work.

He had his dough.

And now he has freedom.

The prom king of Santa Monica High School. Please welcome Emilio Estevez.

I get it. I see all the girls. I see all the fun. I see all the, you know, all

the excitement.

And that was intoxicating.

You know, I couldn't have been more jealous.

High school for me. Yeah, that was a mess.

I may hold the record. I have the attendance record of somewhere in the 30

percentile range.

And a GPA, I think it's like a one, two.

Oh, yeah.

Charlie, you know, didn't graduate from high school.

And then his dad was on his case about, you know, you got to get out and get a

job. I told my parents, I said, look.

Let me explore the acting thing. Let me audition this first summer. Let me just

do this. You know, look what Emilio's doing. Look what all his friends are

doing. You dick!

And if it shits out, then I will figure out a way to, you know, get a GED or

something, and I'll go on to a university and I'll study film. I'll

editor or a cinematographer or a freaking something.

And they were like, okay, deal.

So I was Charlie Estevez all the way through high school.

But personal disappointment, you know, school, girls.

Yeah, it felt like it was time to clean that slate and start moving forward with

a different identity.

And so I went to Pop and I said, I think that someone needs to carry the name

on, you know.

And I said, I think Charlie Sheen just rolls off the tongue a little easier.

I can see it in lights, Pop.

It's like this is a role for him, maybe, you know?

It's the role of Charlie Sheen, and it's a good one.

My first summer of auditioning, I'd like to say that I got the first job that I

went on.

Oh, my God, I've got a blister on my big toe. Backpack, come on, Tina, do me a

small favor.

What? Put a lid on it. Tell us what.

That movie is... It's shit.

It's called Grizzly 2, The Predator.

It's a sequel to Grizzly.

And

there's

Laura Dern and George Clooney.

That's pretty good company, right?

We're in the first scene as the three campers, and they're dating, and I'm the

third wheel guy.

We shot the film in Budapest.

Right before I left, I had this audition, and that was the biggest

town, and I fucked it up. It was a mess.

And the director, he saw it differently, because he wanted to know how fast you

can get into karate training.

I'm like, okay, like for what, one of the hoodlums on that team of bad guys?

And they're like, no, no, Danny, for the guy.

I was offered the lead role in The Karate Kid.

Yeah, that was a big deal.

This was like a huge moment, you know. This was a star -turning moment.

And I said, well, I got to go to Budapest.

So I took it to my dad, and I said, hey, man, I got this thing, and it's a life

-changing opportunity.

And so they want me in karate training, like, tomorrow.

And he said, well, there's a problem here.

You gave this other company your word.

I said, yeah, but it's forgettable, and it's a thing, and it's like eight lines.

He said, none of that matters. You gave them your word.

He said, your word in this business is going to carry you a lot further than

big movie.

So we politely told the karate kid people that if they could wait two

I'm all in, and they said they couldn't.

They said they couldn't.

So that went away.

Ralph Macchio.

Got it. Correct?

Perfect. And I had to sit with that.

But it was the Karate Kid in 1984 that turned Ralph Macchio into a star.

It also turned him into a teen idol, gracing every cover of the top teen

magazines. And, you know, it goes like that sometimes.

It sucked.

And in that moment, tell me about your mindset towards your dad.

I was pissed.

I was pissed. I thought I was terribly misled.

So what if you're wrong?

What if one day the sun didn't rise in the east, the birds didn't fly south for

the winter, and for once your compass was off?

How about now?

Not one bit.

Not one bit, yeah.

I mean, yeah, it went on to burn down the world and spawn, what, five sequels

whatever, and he probably made $20 million.

However, I don't know that it necessarily opened up a lot of doors to

maybe other stuff that he was passionate about.

I don't want to say I dodged a bullet. Maybe I dodged a back kick.

The interesting thing that happened right around that time, he becomes a

There's probably a lot of people out there that don't even know that you have

daughters or sons.

Yeah, no, I have five children and three

granddaughters.

Cassandra, my first child, will be 40 this year.

You know, at the time, I didn't feel like I was ready for that.

And that contribution was a whole other energy for our family, that now he had a

daughter, and my niece's mom was also very young, and my parents helped raise

her a lot.

The stakes had risen to a place that I was ill -equipped to navigate.

But being aware of that there was a lot of love in the room, there was a lot of

support, I'm thinking it's time to focus my sights forward.

If there's one Hollywood director who has his creative finger on the pulse of

today's high school kids, it's John Hughes. With 16 candles and the

club, he endeared himself to the teen crowd. I think he's very honest and that

he doesn't try to show us for something that we're not.

One day, I get this strange phone call from Jennifer Grey, who was a friend.

I told you I was telling the truth, Daddy.

And she said, hey, I'm doing this big movie, which was Ferris Bueller's Day

right? We're filming in Long Beach. I think you should come down, and I've

recommended you to John Hughes.

It's only one scene or two scenes, but they're both pretty memorable. They're

both with me.

I'm like, well, what is it? Who is this guy? What's the scene? She's like, don't

worry about it. Just read it, prepare as best as you can, and then get your ass

down there.

So Ramon was going through this punk rock phase, right?

He had this leather jacket that I wanted to borrow.

He was a smoker at the time, so I dug into his ashtray and darkened my eyes

this. It's cigarette ash.

Jennifer greets me and Matthew Broderick comes out of his trailer and she

introduces us just at a distance.

So it's literally Hughes now walking across the parking lot. And I got the

sides, I got the jacket, I got the thing, I got the hair going on.

Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Hughes. And he's like, wow, look at you. You look

great, kid.

We'll see you next week.

I'm like, yeah.

See you next week.

Jennifer's like, good job, man.

I'm like, what the fuck did I do? All I did was get out of my car, right?

So I got this gig, but this other opportunity arises.

And it's kind of just dropped in our lap.

Martin and Charlie Sheen are going to take on the great Michael Jordan, the

great basketball player. Dad, publicist was tight with Dick Van Patten.

Dick was hosting this sports -themed show called War of the Stars.

It pitted actors against athletes.

Do you have any tactics?

Just primarily to score, if at all possible.

So the day of this event, and I've got the sides, I said, Dad, can we work on

the scene in the limo on the way down to playing Michael Jordan?

And he says, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, kid, what do you got?

So you're pissed off because he ditches and doesn't get caught, is that it?

So we read it once.

You ought to spend a little more time dealing with yourself.

A little less time worrying about what your brother does.

He says, okay.

All right, you got it.

I'm like, yeah, but I don't know it. And he says, no, no, no.

Exactly what you just did with it is what you need to do with it when you

it.

I said, but I did nothing. And he says, exactly.

There's no acting today.

It's all for real.

It's in a high school gymnasium. The bleachers are filled with kids that go

that school.

The competition.

It was broken down into three sections, and it's free throws, it's a game of

horse, and it's a two -on -one.

Dad and I can both shoot free throws. We're not worried about that, right?

good from the strike.

The horse game, we figured, that's him.

We don't have a shot there. He's going to do things we've never seen before,

right?

But two -on -one.

He cannot guard two people at the same time. We've got to spread the floor a

little bit. We've got to come together and show this dude what we're made of.

I missed the first shot.

I missed.

But the universe that day hasn't given.

Right on.

Two for three for Charlie Sheen.

The young girls here really like Charlie.

And he's putting on a big show for them.

And then I proceed to hit eight and a half.

Perfect!

I guess the detail that I omitted is that he had to shoot with his eyes

But come on, I mean, we've got to, you know, introduce handicaps.

He needs just one more.

And he does it!

Martin and Charlie seem to beat Michael Jordan in foul shooting to take a one

-nothing lead in their pre -contest match.

So, the next section was a game of horse.

Jordan steps up to half court, and as though he's shooting a free throw, just

nothing but net.

And Dan...

That

was that moment when you know there's something bigger than us.

In the mix here.

It's like trying to process.

I just made a basket being defended by Michael Jordan.

The whole ride back home.

I felt like a magic carpet. It was intensely surreal.

And the story with Michael does not end there.

He becomes a bit of a through line.

Now I've got a few days to get ready for my big cameo in Ferris Bueller's Day

Off.

And the night before, I'm trying to figure out who this guy is. He seems

he's from the other side of the tracks.

So I'm going to stay up late.

I just figure if I show up looking tired, that that's going to be an asset.

I know what's wrong.

I just want to hear you say it. There was no booze, there was no dope, there

nothing involved in that night preparing for this. You ought to spend a little

more time dealing with yourself, a little less time worrying about what

brother does.

This was just purely organic method approach, you know?

I need to look tired, so I'm going to be tired.

My call time down there was like 6 a .m.

And I set my alarm for 4 .30. I was going to leave at 5, give myself an

And I did that stupid thing where the alarm went off and I was like, I'll just

grab that extra 10 minutes.

And that extra 10 minutes turned into an extra hour and a half.

And the next time I saw the clock, it was 6 .30. And I'm in a fucking panic.

So, you know, there were no cell phones. You couldn't really let anybody know.

So they're all down there like, what happened to dude?

And I finally get down there. It's probably like 7, 7 .15.

And there's Jennifer Grey, man.

And she is pacing.

She's back and forth. And I pull up, and I kind of get out of my car and

sheepishly approach her.

She fucking lays into me, man. What is wrong with you? I go out on a fucking

limb to create this opportunity for you, and you do this.

So I go through makeup. I go through wardrobe.

And I finally get to the set.

And I'm expecting a dressing down from him as well.

And he looks at me. He says, okay,

good, you're here.

Let's get started.

Did that give you any kind of like, well, I can do this and get away with

Maybe subconsciously.

And so we rehearsed it a couple times, and then he just started rolling camera.

And action.

I got very little direction that day.

And then I had the thing where I used to crack my knuckles.

He had a couple cameras on the scene, and his guy drifted down to that, and

that's in the movie.

I think I came close to honoring what Dad recommended to the approach to the

scene. You're pissed off because he ditches and doesn't get caught, is that

Basically. Basically.

Your problem is you.

Excuse me?

Excuse you.

You ought to spend a little more time dealing with yourself.

A little less time worrying about what your brother does.

And that scene turned into a thing that I couldn't have possibly

anticipated, expected, or predicted.

You ever held another job before?

Yeah, I was so trashed when I said it.

You lost that one?

That one would be here if I had.

I think if you look at Charlie's movies, there's been kind of a connecting

thread to thematics and environments that were the movies they

grew up watching their father shoot.

Ferris Bueller is running now. He's so funny. I wait for that scene when you

come on. It is the best thing in the film. Thank you. So funny. I don't know

about that, but I appreciate that. Thank you. Everybody loved the movie overall,

but this one lady in particular, I can't remember her name, but at the very end

of the review, she said something like, special attention needs to be made for

Charlie Sheen in his one scene. And then her one line was, he smolders.

No joke.

And I thought, huh.

Now I'm on screen for, I don't know, three minutes?

Four?

And the whole world suddenly goes, he's the fucking guy.

And imagine what that did to my head.

I remember I had no awareness that Charlie was developing such a career.

And then I was at one of these family holidays at my parents' house, and there

was Charlie a foot taller.

chiseled jaw.

He looked like a baby version of George Washington when he was a kid, you know,

a little blimpy, you know, face.

And here he was, this handsome, tall young man who was starring in movies.

And I thought, wow, isn't he great?

You know, he was someone you knew in your childhood, finding a big zone of

expression and having so much to offer. But you're about 21, right? I am 21,

yeah. So people your age, do they know much about Vietnam and your own

experience? Yeah.

Yeah, to a certain extent, what they teach you in history in high

school. I had auditioned for Platoon, and there was a train wreck. And then

Platoon was greenlit shortly after that, and Emilio was going to be playing

the lead role.

And then they lost their financing, and the director, Oliver Stone, decided just

to put the brakes on for a minute.

Then it came back around.

And that's when Oliver asked me to come back and do a second audition.

Did you have a moment with your brother about this?

It's just the way things had to go.

It's the way things had to go. Do you have a sibling rivalry? As far as

film competition, I think that's all, that's just a waste of time because

not up for the same parts. We're not, we don't play the same types.

You were on the set when your dad was shooting Apocalypse Now.

Was this similar?

I was witnessing this Coppola -esque $40 million production as an 11 -year -old.

And now going back 10 years later to do Platoon, like my version, it was kind of

scary, but it was like a strange, symbolic homecoming for me.

During that shoot, I was presented with a contract written on a napkin

in the Philippine jungle from Oliver Stone to commit to Wall Street.

And I said, okay, I know where Wall Street is. What's the movie about? And

said, it's the story of a young trader seduced by the promise of quick gains.

I'm like, all right, that sounds pretty cool.

Look, Dixon, relax.

It's not illegal to buy stock or to be accurate, and it's not all that unusual

to be spot -checked on a big buy. Just tell them that you did your homework and

you thought the stock was a sound investment.

The nominees for Best Picture are Platoon.

I was in New York filming Wall Street watching Platoon, but for Best Picture,

you know, on a Sunday night. And the winner is?

There's before Platoon and there's after Platoon.

Platoon.

I mean, Best Picture is funny.

Yeah, it kind of sets the stage.

You know who he is.

Charlie Sheen.

Just indescribable opportunities.

The place goes crazy for you, don't they? It's a little embarrassing.

He just became a mega superstar.

It's Charlie Sheen, man. Hugest star in the world.

I was on a level that couldn't be touched.

One night, I decided to head out on the town with a few of my mates.

And we catch wind of this party in West Hollywood, right? We get the address and

we get there.

I think it's the right spot.

You know, everything was really dark and back alley -ish.

And I see a guy.

He's talking to this really cute girl.

And he keeps saying to the girl, what do you think of my watch?

How do you like my watch?

And I recognize the voice, right?

And I'm like, Nick?

I lost my hand!

Hey,

Birdie.

We got some dance in the dance.

Hey.

Nicholas Cain.

I admired how he's not interested in anybody's opinion. He's not looking for

anyone's approval.

That's the symbolic springboard into the next chapter of complete and total

chaos.

We bonded in a way that was about the party, it was about the excitement, but

was also about respect for each other.

But mostly the party, snorting cocaine and tons of booze.

Poppers, ecstasy.

That's great.

Just the menu was filled with options.

Our gang, we got the tattoos, we got the jackets.

We'd go at 100 miles an hour.

We were warped.

And that's what kind of just... Charlie Sheen, Hollywood's wildest bachelor.

His scandalous women. His party nights out with the boys.

The circus that Charlie bragged. Charlie was a different kind of life at the

party. We were like this runaway train.

It's like we were all... Something was missing and...

By this connection, suddenly it wasn't. And that's a lot of responsibility

to everybody's American night.

We wound up on an airplane to San Francisco.

Everybody was high as shit.

Then it happened.

Nick got a hold of the intercom handset.

There was no warm -up. He launched into... This is your captain speaking.

I'm not feeling well.

I'm losing control of the aircraft.

And we heard this, and I knew we were instantly in shit city. He had taken it

a place, whatever his intentions were.

that just were wildly inappropriate.

And you can hear people screaming and demanding information from the flight

crew. You can't. Good Lord.

No. And then when we landed, the pilot came out and he said, quote, not cool,

not cool, end quote.

So we were in big trouble, man. At which point the door to the aircraft whooshed

open like a nuclear gateway to a bank vault to reveal...

six fully armed police officers. Oh, buddy.

And what Nick didn't know is that I had over an ounce of cocaine taped to the

inside of my leg and standing there sweating and really concerned about

going to happen next.

One of the guys was a big enough fan of mine, big enough fan of Nick's, and he

just decided to, you know, make sure this doesn't happen again, young man.

we...

We got through, you know.

Yet another experience of the perks of the job. I guess, yeah. I think anybody

else, that would have been fools.

Charlie always managed to walk a tightrope. You wanted to like him

was really charming and smart and terrific at what he does as an actor.

know, but also... you know, there were incidents that you were like, wait, what

happened? Like, you know, when he shot Kelly Preston, you know?

Charlie Sheen and Kelly Preston seem to be a nice couple. Each is a successful,

attractive actor. Each is upset now about stories circulating since Kelly

suffered a gunshot wound earlier this month. There's nothing better than

directly to the source, and that's exactly what we did.

I'm pretty glad you're okay. Thank you. Can you just go over it? Because we've

got so many accounts, we don't want the wrong one. The truth is it was a

complete accident. It fell.

It went off. Then Kelly said at the time, oh, no, that was an accident.

You know, so there's this part of you that goes, okay, you know, there's

this tightrope of, you know.

I don't know the whole story.

Is he the guy who he appears to me to be?

Or is there some much darker thing going on?

I get invited to my dad's birthday party.

I think mom called me.

Dad's got things to do.

So we got to do it early.

He's like, we're thinking nine.

I'm like, a .m.

He's like, yeah. I'm like, okay.

Hey, what should I get him?

He's like, he doesn't need anything. You know your father. If you give him

something, he'll just give it away.

You can hear this car coming a mile away, right? And so mom here has been

pulling the driveway.

And she comes out, and she gives me a hug, and she says, I have to ask you

something. I'm like, yeah, anything.

She says, are you armed?

And I thought she was joking, right?

And I said, no, no, why would I? No, Mom, come on. I mean, maybe there's

something in the trunk, but no.

She says, okay, good, good. I just had to find out, you know.

So she brings me in the house.

I mean, I'm looking for balloons. I'm looking for a cake. I'm looking for

hats. I'm looking for something that screams birthday party and there's

And as I get kind of coming around the corner, I see the living room has this

like really expertly organized circle of people.

And I think I'm recognizing all of them.

But it's a weird mix.

Why would Dad have my 7th grade history teacher, Mr. Vincent, at his birthday

party when no one's seen the guy for, I don't know, 15 years, right?

There's Bikram Chowdhury, my yoga instructor, and Rob Lowe is there. Okay,

there's a familiar face, right? And then Emilio and Rene, Ramon, my parents, and

there's this fucking guy. I think his name was Jim.

And there's one chair that's open.

And this guy named Jim...

says uh welcome please be seated i was never involved in any of those uh

interventions and and you know i was not uh you know walking a perfect trail of

my own in some regards and i haven't said a fucking word because there's a

to process i kind of heard about these things but never been this close to an

intervention and they go around the room

And they've all got something written, and it's very emotional.

I said, is this a situation where now I'm given some time to think about this?

And they said, no.

No, this is a decision we've made for you that has to happen today.

What you have just seen is a good lesson in what not to do in a situation of

this nature. You can tell me what they did wrong.

Come on, come on, come on, you know.

Charlie had the audacity to be pissed about that.

I don't know if he told you, he was mad that all these people were there trying

to tell him what to do with his life.

You can tell someone

until they're blue in the face.

I don't care if it's your mom, your dad, whoever.

Until you decide to make that decision, that's not going to happen.

And I was...

Figuring, all right, if I just agree to this, just to get out of this situation,

I can probably hatch a plan somewhere away from here.

Dad goes in the office, and he sticks his head back out the door, and he says,

there's someone on the phone that wants to talk to you.

I thought it'd be a family member.

And I'm like, hello? And it's a very recognizable, very globally familiar

And it's Clint.

I ain't gonna lose this one.

You can either stand out of my way or you can be my partner and you can back

up.

He said something to the effect of, you know, you got to get the train back on

the tracks, kid.

You know, he said, you're worth saving.

Yeah, it was really powerful.

And I thanked him and gave the phone back to dad and said, all right, let's

We were in a car on the way down to rehab.

Dad driving, mom in the front, and a couple people on either side of me.

I was in a people sandwich.

Because they knew at the first red light I was probably going to be that guy.

The intervention was inconvenient because later on that night or the next

morning, Nick Cage and the rest of our gang were scheduled to be honorary

judges at a Hawaiian Tropic bikini contest in Palm Springs.

So I'm in a bit of a pickle. I got the whole crew on standby to make this move

down there, and I'm stuck in this intervention.

I'm thinking, what does it really matter if I get sober like that day or a day

from then?

There's a night nurse.

It was this black gal in her 40s. I mean, she was all business, you know.

I told her, I said, I'm not bound by law to be here.

I got the thing with my buddies down in the desert.

And I will come walking back into this facility tomorrow morning at 8 a .m.

Or I will give you a million dollars.

And she took it in.

She took it in.

And she just said, deal.

Thinking she's probably looking at the better end of the stick, right?

I put a big spell on you.

And so there's a pay phone, and I'm able to kind of get word to the guys.

I said, I just spoke to this gal. We got this thing covered, and he's like,

cool, man.

And so, I mean, thanks, Nick. He could have fucking said, oh, you know what,

Charles? We're probably going to pull the plug on that, you know? And he

and I don't blame him.

Fantabulous and sexy and as exciting as it could have been.

And I

get back to St. John's at about 7

.40. And he's been walking up. And it is such...

She's kind of happy that, you know, that, all right, this guy, he's

this thing and he showed back up.

So she was happy for me, but disappointed for herself.

And she kind of was like, all right, well, whatever. You're a man of your

Welcome back. We kept your room for you.

My agent, he visited me in rehab with the hotshot script.

This fell out of the fucking sky, right in my lap. I don't need your help. I

don't need anybody's help.

I'll be just fine.

And it was a bit of a game changer.

Are you okay?

I think it might have been for the first time.

I noticed that there was a pattern to go through all this shit, come out of the

fire, and there be an opportunity on the immediate other side of it.

It really flattened the concept of genuine

consequences.

I was able to just turn it off.

And to this day, I don't know how, but I did. I was at Nick's Castle, for lack

of a different description, up in the Hollywood Hills.

The neighborhood was kind of sketchy, but the place was fabulous.

And I asked Nick one night, I said, why did you choose this place?

And he was like, Charles, look at the view.

Look at the view and just think how much closer I am to the crime.

I was like, all right, that makes me want to leave.

So I had spent the night and I woke up. He wasn't up yet. And I went down to his

kitchen and I opened his refrigerator and there was a Foster's lager just

sitting there. I mean, lit perfectly, slow pushing on it, you know.

Reverse push in on me.

I'm like, yeah, it's dad's birthday. It's my birthday too now. So let's

celebrate.

Cracked that fucker and downed it.

Yeah, celebrated one year. Come on, man. That was an accomplishment.

That beer was there for a reason, right?

So that opened the door a little bit.

I would pull waitresses aside and, you know, give them a decent tip and say,

I'll just need a little wine and a coffee mug, you know.

At the same time, I was trying to project an image of responsibility.

Is your act pretty cleaned up now, do you think? More or less, yeah. Is it?

Yeah, no, I spend a little more time at home eating a Wolfgang Puck spicy

chicken than I do in a bar.

I just didn't take the edge off a little bit. Don't worry, it's not going to

lead back to all the freaking shit that got me in this mess, you know?

Yeah, it's funny how secret wine in a coffee mug just...

turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

There was a club that was really popular called On the Rocks, and it was above

the Roxy. The place was a little sketchy, but it was the spot.

There was one night, there was a group of girls there that I hadn't seen there

before.

And lined up properly, they were each hotter than the other and dressed nicely

and wearing all the right accessories.

And they would always wind up back at this one table.

And at the head of the table was a gal that seemed like she was kind of, for

lack of a better description, like their chaperone.

She was a little bit older.

She wasn't trying to prove anything or impress anyone, you know.

And so I finally got to talking to one of these girls.

I said, okay, so do you have any plans after this? I mean, what's going on? She

says, well, yeah, that's where it gets a little tricky.

I got to go talk to my friend and see what that looks like for us, you know?

I'm thinking, all right, that's kind of strange.

Come here with your mom, whatever.

Then it clicks.

Okay, these are call girl.

And that lady over there is their madam.

Actually, that stuff never bothered me.

In fact, I lost my virginity to a pro when I was 15 years old.

I borrowed Dad's credit card to pay for it.

1980. I'm in Vegas.

I'm pretty sure her name was Candy, Candy, Candy, Candy, Candy, Candy.

So, you know, I have to say, Candy, if you're out there somewhere, thank you.

Unpack that moment, kind of where it goes from there.

Candy, you know, probably cost me upwards of $100 million, conservatively.

ask you something, just one guy to another?

You know, I've never hired a woman, but I would just think it's like a blind

date, really, except that you know that it's going to be successful.

Yeah, yeah, I think Cary Grant said it best way back in the day. He said that

he's not paying for the sex, he's paying for them to leave when he's done, you

know.

In the immortal words of Cary Grant.

Which brings us back to that fateful night at On the Rocks.

The same night I was introduced to the infamous madam.

And I said, hey, I'm Charlie Sheen. Nice to meet you.

And she says, hi, my name's Heidi.

You should learn how to say no.

Go on, take everything.

Take everything I want you to take.

Hey.

Come here.

Hey. Hey, come here, babies. Come here. Hey, what's your problem? Come here.

Come here.

I'm born and raised in L .A.

everything was a perfect storm to make me the perfect madam.

I was young, I was arrogant, I was the best, so that's how it is.

I'm not going to start naming all the actors I dealt with, but everyone you

think is doing it is doing it. And big deal, what guy doesn't want to get laid?

And they're paying for adults doing adult things, not Jeffrey Epstein, like,

pedophile thing.

I wasn't Ghislaine Maxwell driving around junior high schools.

There's none of that.

And the women came to me and drove when they were like $10 cum buckets. I've got

them $100 ,000 a night.

I have no talent, no skill.

Everything with me has to be created by imagination or luck or persistence and

determination.

She was really cool. She was really smart. She was pretty business savvy.

I don't know. She had a decent sense of humor. She was never sloppy.

You know?

Charlie is a crybaby pussy bitch.

I've been on the cover of Time with the Manson girls.

I'm in the criminal category.

People remember the criminals. That's what they know.

Look, at 27 years old, I was arrested.

I knew I would get arrested one day for running an illegal consensual sex

empire.

But I didn't think it would ever happen the way it happened.

With Heidi, I always just used cash. Everything was fine.

For a while, nobody got hurt, nobody got arrested.

For a while.

And then I was too hammered to go to the bank. I'm pretty sure I was using...

American Express traveler's checks.

Don't leave home without them.

And I said to her, hey, we probably shouldn't do this, but is it cool if I

write a check?

She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem. No problem whatsoever.

Big problem.

Oh, so ever.

In the new Vanity Fair magazine, Fleiss breaks her silence about customers for

her high -priced call girl operation.

She claims actor Charlie Sheen wanted prostitutes dressed as cheerleaders. Let

me explain the Charlie, the connection.

His name would have never, ever come out, ever.

For the simple fact, a long time ago, there were things called traveler's

checks.

And I guess Charlie was away making Hot Shots Part 3 or something. I don't know.

And he probably had traveler's checks on location that was considered like

money. So when he returned, he called me, I don't know, for some girls and

with traveler's checks.

They were in my Gucci planner along with other traveler's checks from Saudi

royal families and stuff like that.

But the kind of people, the cops don't know who they are, but they know Charlie

Sheen. So that's the only reason his name came out. Otherwise, it never would

have come out. I wouldn't have said anything.

I've never said anything about anyone.

All these Hollywood actors are so scared about being named in this thing. But do

you realize since they cracked down on her, some of the best acting in town is

going on right now. People are going, Heidi who?

No. Heidi has indeed become famous, attracting the attention of the news

from all over the world. Let us through.

It was an intense struggle for Heidi to get into the Division 34.

Everyone wanted to capture a shot of Heidi.

The day after I was arrested, I was sitting out by my pool, looking over the

whole city.

I lived in real Beverly Hills.

I bought my house from the actor Michael Douglas.

And I'm sitting there looking at it just build out going, how did I fuck up the

best job on earth?

They had the checks.

Yeah, that's the part that sunk me. That's the part that I couldn't talk my

out of. I had meetings with the U .S. attorney and they said, look, we will

grant you immunity, but you have to roll on her.

So, you know, I don't want to be a rat, but there was really no other way out of

it.

Robert Mitchum, he was arrested for marijuana. They said, tell us your

He said, charge me with a crime.

Charlie should have said, charge me with a crime. He's a crybaby rich boy.

He's a rich kid from Malibu. They're not going to do shit to him. He's Charlie

Sheen. He was at his peak then.

They're not going to do anything to him. Are you kidding me?

They threatened me.

They said, look, just so you know, it's a misdemeanor to hire a gal, but if

you... get a couple gals and give one to your buddy, that's pandering.

And that's three to five.

And I said, well, no, I would never pay for a gal for my pal, you know?

And they said, we have proof that you did.

Because that was the deal. That was the thing that was like, yeah, of course,

two,

three girls show up and you're with your buddies and it's like, you know, you

get to be a hero, right?

And so I didn't know doing that was...

It's such a potential severe violation of whatever that law is, you know.

So, yeah, I was in the suit, man.

It was a really difficult time. Look, when you're facing that kind of, like,

seven and a half years in jail, might as well be a death sentence, because at

that young age, you know, it just seems like eternity.

He testified he spent more than $50 ,000 in three years soliciting prostitutes

from flights.

Was he a good client, Charlie Sheen?

When I said, I'm really trying to put this lady away for basically running a

successful business that's one of the oldest professions on earth. And they

said, no, it's not really about that.

It's about tax evasion.

So I sat with that, and I felt like that really,

that's kind of on her at that point.

He testified against me, and I went to jail.

We need the jury to find the defendant, Heidi Lindsley.

Guilty. Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to 37 months in jail and a $400 fine for

cheating on taxes and laundering profits for her call girl service.

Before I went to prison, I moved to the beach and opened up like a lingerie

store like you see, opened up Third Street Promenade and Old Town Pasadena.

And that was just to switch everything.

And then so one evening, Charlie's dad, Martin Sheen, came in the store.

And he's telling me to go easy on Charlie.

And I'm thinking, go easy on Charlie? I'm the one going to jail. The best deal

was offered was seven and a half years.

And he's telling me to go easy on Charlie? But that's just a father's love

his son. And it's totally understandable.

We're not taught as children how to deal with success.

They always say if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That's dealing

with failure, you know.

Nobody ever said if at first you succeed, what do you do?

You know?

What do you do?

I don't know. Run and hide.

The work.

The money. You're back in circulation, aren't you, Ali? Oh, yeah. My

circulation's fine.

It kept happening.

Gene reportedly took home between $3 and $5 million.

There were no real consequences.

We proudly welcome to the Hollywood Walk of Fame still, Charlie Sheen.

Hey!

Whoo! Damn, you got a lot of pool in this town.

Charlie Sheen, man.

He's always been loyal to me from the start.

Charlie was executive producer in the movie, and the studio wanted to give

Charlie first billing. And he was like, no, no, Chris should have first billing.

I'm having second billing. He's just...

Huge star, you know, not being selfish.

Who does that in Hollywood?

The movie started great, and we were cooking with gas.

Then it got away from me, like it usually does.

I remember one day he didn't show up to work, but I was late too, so I was like,

I'm glad he didn't show up so they stay off of me.

It was one of those things, but when he showed up, we were ready to work.

One day, I got an 18 -hour nosebleed from doing too much cocaine. And that's

usually kind of the threshold where you go and get it checked out, and I didn't.

I just kept kind of blotting it. There was one night where it actually dripped

onto my shirt during a scene, and I got the director, Brett Ratner, to agree to

make that shot go away forever.

And he did, because we'd never seen it, right?

And that's when it starts to get that the priorities are...

I couldn't be more wonky, you know.

Hey, Larry, Larry, come here. I was taking jobs to just fuel the habits.

I don't know about you, but I got a bad feeling about this.

I was in Montreal, and I was shooting this movie called Free Money.

I found a dope connection as soon as I got to Montreal.

Remind the audience that you refer to dope as something different. It's

yeah. So I...

I'd overshot the mark, and it got to the point where I literally could not keep

my eyes open.

I felt they were so burned and so heavy. The director kind of spotted it. He

says, you look like you're falling asleep on camera, which had never

before. I said to him, I said, I need a glass of ice.

He was like, okay. He said, give me a glass of ice. And I said, I'll be right

back. There was a little bathroom.

And I went in there, and I took an ice cube, and I shoved it up my butt.

Never done that before.

And, man, I was wide awake.

Just enough to get back on the mark and finish the fucking scene with an ice

cube in my ass.

Making the big money running in a couple of weeks, right, Louie? Yes, sir, with

due assistance.

You're shitting me.

You mean between the Midwest, uh...

My theory has always been that I don't know that he believes that he deserves

what he's got.

I think there's a part of him that throws it all away just to see if he

deserved it.

That is what drives people crazy who are close to him, is that there's so many

great things about him. If he only believed it, he might stop burning it

down.

I'm going to tell you something very candid.

And this is one example, and it's biological.

Most people, men, who do cocaine,

copious amounts of cocaine,

have extremely enhanced

sexual fantasies, but extremely

derailed sexual competency at that time.

Thank God for anybody that describes that their dick don't

work when full of cocaine.

What the fuck would it be like if it was the opposite?

Ask Charlie Sheen.

There's a young gal that C. Thomas, Hal, and myself were kind of seeing at the

same time, and she was really sweet and sexy and adorable.

And then she reached out to me one night. I was still in my condo in

she said, hey, I'm in a spot that I need to be extracted from at once.

So I went over there, and it was this kind of semi -rundown apartment just

the canyon, Woodland Hills maybe.

And I pull up, and it's about 10 o 'clock at night.

She's in there, and she's in there with this guy, and the vibe of the place was

not pleasant at all.

It was eerie, and it felt really unsafe for me.

I can imagine what she was going through to make this secret call, and he was

like, who the fuck are you?

I'm like, hey, man, hey, I don't mean to barge in, but I'm a friend of Sandy's,

and she said that she needed to get out of here, so I'm here to facilitate that,

you know? He says, well, hold on a minute, and he fucking grabs her and

against the wall, and the dude was pretty big.

And he's yelling at her about a bunch of shit, you know, and something about

money she owes him.

Now I'm like, oh, this is moments from getting away from everybody.

So he's not looking at me, and my car is, like, really close. So I go back to

the car, and I got an 8K P7 M13 9 mil in my glove box. I put that in my

waistband. I come back in the house, and I said, all right, whatever's going on,

let's just call it quits. He's coming with me now.

So we get back to the condo.

She falls asleep on the couch. I let her rest for a couple hours.

The next morning, you know, I'm giving her some juice and, you know, a snack or

whatever, trying to be hospitable. You know, I really like this girl.

She says, if you don't mind, I'm starting to jones a little bit, and I

need to just get back up on my shit, you know.

And I'm like, yeah, I mean, sure, whatever.

She pulls out her pipe and loads it up and takes a big hit.

Plays back on the couch like she's inside the best moment of all time.

I'm a little curious.

I'm a little bit curious. You know, I've done a lot of cocaine up to that point,

just not in that form.

She says, you know, I don't want to talk you into anything, but if you're

curious. I think you might really enjoy this.

I said, I don't know, man.

It's like, you know, I'm trying to, I got a lot of shit coming up.

At that point, she's feeling the sexual charge from her hit. So she's starting

to undress and she's, you know, almost completely naked at this point.

So she says, well, let me combo this up for you. Let me do something for you

while you're doing this.

How do I?

Present this with any class.

We're past that. We're past that, yeah. She decides that giving me a blowjob

while I'm taking my first hit of crack is going to be an experience.

And so it was indescribable.

It took me to a place in my brain and in my body and what she was doing. And it

all made sense on a level that I was really excited to finally embrace.

But in that same breath, in that same experience, I'm deathly afraid of

how far this could get away from me. And I was aware of that.

In the moment. In the moment, yeah. The duality of those.

two conflicting forces.

And I was banging seven -gram rocks and finishing them. It was something that,

to this day, just were peerless, you know?

I mean, I got kind of a little shaky telling that.

Not like I'm a fucking sissy and I get shaken up by my own story, but I could

feel some of that shit coming back up.

Sadly, she died.

She died. Yeah, she OD'd on that shit. She OD'd? Yeah. I think, like, shortly

before, right after her 30th birthday, you know, it was just such a loss.

Such a waste.

Just crack the thing that you just wish had never entered your life.

Yeah, if I could just kind of carve that one out or just

erase it, just take it completely out of the equation.

Yeah, I think I probably would have avoided some

pretty awful situations, you know.

The party was over.

I just didn't know it yet.

I'd tried everything.

Why not try shooting up cocaine?

It felt cinematic. It felt dangerous. It felt, you know, like it had to be such

a secret.

I drew it up just like, you know, Tarantino taught so many of us.

I had a Japanese tattoo that was the colors of war, black and red.

And wow, things changed so, so quickly.

It's as though I was suddenly falling forward and I could hear all the blood

my body rushing as though I had both ears.

covered with seashells at the beach.

My legs are shaking so badly that I'm taking these two inch, like, I don't

fucking Joe Biden steps, right?

My bodyguard zip was still on the premises.

And I said, you got to call 911 because this is beyond both of us.

He was admitted to Los Robles Regional Medical Center at 5 .30 in the morning,

accompanied by his father.

Rumors ran rampant that the younger Sheen had a stroke and died.

One reason why his father wanted to set the record straight.

And the very first thing I want to assure you of is that my son, Charlie

is very much alive.

I was kind of in and out, sedated, you know, and so he was doing all that

without my knowledge. My son was admitted here yesterday.

As a result of a drug overdose.

I just felt like it dumped a bunch of gas on the fire.

We are in the stages right now of recovery.

I had a huge resentment about them. And I said, just give me a little bit of

space and mind your own fucking business.

I can get a handle on this.

We're going to have it out, you and me.

Right now, son.

And dad is so freaking frustrated, thinking he and I were coming to

right? So he took out his teeth because he didn't want to damage them.

Somebody there had, hey, Martin, Martin, hold on, hold on.

Violence is not the answer.

Everybody was super frustrated.

The time expired that they could hold me legally.

I said to Zip, get me to the condo. Yeah, I wanted to stay high.

It is my hope that he will accept recovery and become free.

Do anything you can to get between drugs and your kids.

Not an easy moment in our lives, but it is a very important one, a very

necessary one.

After Charlie Sheen skipped the drug rehab center, Sheen left with his

over the weekend to go partying.

You know, the addiction has gotten to a point where I'm scared at this point.

I'm asking all of his friends and fans to pray for him.

We're up three, four days, and I didn't want the party to end.

And the phone rings.

There's a warrant for your arrest.

The marshals are en route.

Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, asked California police to make the

to help his son overcome his drug problem.

I didn't have a plan. I didn't know how long I could push this thing.

I think maybe then it was perhaps considering Mexico.

But meanwhile, Dad's running around doing all he can.

I want to get out of the way of this thing so that a

healing can occur.

Three words.

I love you.

That was his parenting style.

Fear is useless.

Faith is necessary.

Love is everything.

We wound up just a little pit stop at Flash's house.

He said, dude, I don't know that I've seen anyone before in this kind of

This is Flash, right?

GNR rock god.

The life he's led. And he said, no, dude, you're out of options.

You've got to get the rehab. You've got to save yourself, man.

And coming from him, the way he presented it was like, whoa.

Message delivered.

Dad, I'm going to jail. You know it.

It's the best thing that could have happened to you.

And under the current circumstances, why do I perceive to be his ingestion of

controlled substances?

He needs to be in a rehabilitation program.

Hearing about certain things on the news, it was out there.

You know, I caught up with his life at that point.

I was definitely concerned. I would try to talk to people around him, see how he

was doing, where he was at.

But I wanted him to get better and to be safe. And thank God for his family.

his father, and just stuck with him.

They take me from the courthouse, they deliver me to rehab, and they sedate me

heavily. The equivalent of, you know, let's put the elephant to sleep for a

-sized dose, you know? But man, there was a guy watching me sleep, and how he

tells the story, it was like Michael Myers in the background.

Just waking right up and kind of taking in my surroundings.

I said, I need some air. I've got to take a walk.

And I managed to get a hold of my trusty limo driver, Dylan.

I'm like, my chariot has arrived.

Behind us, it's just cherry top.

It's hard to have that much power out in the world, and then...

have it taken away in a flash.

They got me medicated pretty severely.

They wean you off the meds that they put you on.

I'm on like day 11, and it's the first day I'm off everything, and I start to

fucking panic.

Those were the most difficult moments to navigate, kind of having to accept that

the party was over.

So I get a hold of my bodyguard, Zip, and Zip goes through my condo and...

Breaks everything out of it.

Sticks it in a bag.

In one of the quietest nights I've ever existed in, this bag comes like

hittering through the night air so fucking loud you couldn't believe it.

And this thing hits the mud.

The sober gods were like, all right, man, you're going to get a little bit of

shit on you for this one.

I have one hit, and it's not great.

Nothing at that point is great, and I remember just kind of sitting in the

just staring at the freaking ceiling, this beige concrete ceiling.

There was no high left.

Yeah, I get a knock on my door, and I knew that was coming, and I had this

Tracy fedora that I'd been... wearing around town.

And they were like, where's the dope?

So I basically take my hat off and give them the dope.

And I said to him, I have but one request.

There was a crucial game six, jazz balls.

And I said, all I really want to do is be able to sit down and watch that

freaking game.

Y 'all ready for Air Jordan?

Air who?

And he said, okay, all right, that's actually a good sign.

I'm encouraged.

that you're still seeking an interest in something that grounded.

And I did. I watched that game.

And he hit the shot.

He saved the course and I didn't.

I knew after that, that game was going to be my new sobriety date.

Things were going to be fucking different.

Yeah, a lot different.

I had no idea how badly this could blow up. I'm doing all right. Every time the

bell rings, you got to take a shot.

Why?

Because the bell rings.

You know, untreated crazy over time doesn't get better. It gets fucking