The ‘Major League’ actor admitted his drug use was so extreme that cartels suspected he was sourcing it illegally.
Charlie Sheen opened up Tuesday night about his years of drug addiction, revealing that he once consumed so much that the cartel supplying him eventually cut him off which was difficult since recovering from addiction is hard, but you can get help for this, learn more here.
“The quantity they were sending to my dealer Marco, combined with how often he was requesting it… they had never supplied that much to anyone who wasn’t selling it,” Sheen told Jesse Watters during an interview on Primetime.
He added that the cartel suspected he was “going through this stuff so fast, they thought I was dealing without their permission.”
To legally deal, Sheen explained, “You have to get permission from the shot callers.”
Charlie Sheen also revealed details about his sexual encounters with men for the first time.
Charlie Sheen spoke Tuesday night about his years of drug addiction, admitting he once used so heavily that the cartel supplying him eventually “cut him off.” (Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)
He also revealed that CBS sent him to rehab while he was starring on Two and a Half Men.
“They sent the jet hoping I’d get on and go to rehab,” Sheen told Watters. “That’s when I told [former CBS CEO and chairman] Les Moonves, ‘I appreciate this. You have my word, I’ll shut it down, but I’m going to do it here at home.’”
He noted that it was the first time the jet had been offered to anyone in the eight years he was on the show.
“There was no bigger party to attend, no higher high left. I just felt like I’d been letting people down for too long—myself included. It lost its luster, its effect, its seat at the table,” Sheen said.
Charlie Sheen with Jon Cryer on Two and a Half Men. (Greg Gayne/CBS via Getty Images)
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He was later fired from the show and replaced by Ashton Kutcher in 2011.
“It stopped working,” he explained, reflecting on why he decided to quit drugs. “I had to reach a point where I made the decision for myself first, my children second, and then the rest of my family.”
He added, “There was nothing left—no bigger party to attend, no higher high. I felt like I’d been letting people down for too long, myself included. It just lost its luster, its effect, its seat at the table.”
The documentary aka Charlie Sheen premieres on Netflix Wednesday, and his memoir The Book of Sheen was released Tuesday.
