Charlie Sheen Netflix documentary: Wildest revelations
What a life he’s lived.
Charlie Sheen is more candid than ever in his new two-part Netflix documentary, “aka Charlie Sheen,” directed by Andrew Renzi.
🎬 Get Free Netflix Logins
Claim your free working Netflix accounts for streaming in HD! Limited slots available for active users only.
- No subscription required
- Works on mobile, PC & smart TV
- Updated login details daily
The Hollywood star, 60, reflects on some of his biggest experiences, including the highs and lows of his acting career, his multiple marriages, his drug addiction and his journey to getting sober.
Participants in the doc include his ex-wives, Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller, fellow actors Jon Cryer, Sean Penn and Chris Tucker, and “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorre. His father, Martin Sheen, and brother, Emilio Estevez, declined to appear.
Here are the biggest revelations from Charlie Sheen’s Netflix documentary.
Charlie flew a plane drunk
The documentary opens with Charlie sharing a wild story about his honeymoon with his first wife, Donna Peele. The pair were on the plane and the flight crew invited Charlie — who was drunk — to briefly fly the aircraft.
“I’m there drunk, close to 300 people asleep behind me, an angry bride 20 feet behind me, and I start guiding this plane,” he recalled. “And then they saw that maybe this might get away from them.”
But the co-pilot eventually put the plane’s autopilot back on and saved everyone from possible harm.
Charlie grew up in a nudist household
Charlie said that he and his siblings, brothers Emilio and Ramon, and sister Renée, had to see their parents naked as kids.
“We were surrounded by an air of just a general freedom of expression,” he shared. “They’ll hate me for revealing this, but my parents, maybe for a month, or five, they practiced nudism.
“So yeah, I’m 5, walking into the kitchen, and there’s my naked parents,” Charlie added.
Charlie’s dad forced him to turn down ‘The Karate Kid’
After Charlie booked the 1983 action thriller “Grizzly II: Revenge” co-starring George Clooney and Laura Dern, he was offered the lead role of Daniel LaRusso in “The Karate Kid.”
“That was a big deal,” he said. “This was like a huge moment. This would’ve been a star-turning moment.”
Charlie had to go to Budapest for “Grizzly II: Revenge,” but he told his dad that he wanted to quit the project and do “The Karate Kid.” However, Martin, 85, wouldn’t let him.
“He said, ‘Well, there’s a problem here. You gave the other company your word,’” Charlie recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah, but it’s forgettable. It’s like eight lines.’ He said, ‘None of that matters. You gave them your word.’ He said, ‘Your word in this business is gonna carry you a lot further than one big movie.’”
“So we politely told ‘The Karate Kid’ people if they could wait two weeks, I’m all in,” Charlie remembered. “They said they couldn’t. “So, that went away. And I had to sit with that. It goes like that sometimes. It sucked.”
Charlie confirmed he resented his famous father for making him pass on the role, which went to Ralph Macchio.
“I was pissed,” he said. “I thought I was terribly misled.”
Jennifer Grey laid into Charlie for being late to ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
Jennifer Grey helped Charlie get a supporting role in 1986’s “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” To prepare for his part as a juvenile delinquent, Charlie pulled an all-nighter on the eve of his filming day.
“No booze, no dope … just purely organic, method approach,” he said. “I need to look tired, so I’m gonna be tired.”
However, Charlie slept through his alarm and arrived to the set over an hour late — and got a verbal beatdown by Grey.
“She is pacing back and forth. She f—ing lays into me. ‘What is wrong with you? I go out on a f—ing limb to create this opportunity for you, and you do this!’” Charlie said.
But director John Hughes didn’t care about Charlie’s tardiness and they quickly shot his scene, in which Garth (Charlie) flirts with Jeanie (Grey) at a police station.
“That scene turned into a thing that I couldn’t have possibly anticipated, expected or predicted,” he said, noting how his career blew up afterwards.
Clint Eastwood was the closer at Charlie’s intervention
In 1990, Charlie’s family and friends became concerned about his excessive drinking and drug use, so they staged an intervention with the goal of sending him to rehab. Charlie’s parents and his siblings were among those in attendance.
“They all go around the room and they’ve all got something written and it’s very emotional,” Charlie shared, noting that his loved ones told him “this is the decision we’ve made for you, and it has to happen today.”
To close out the intervention, Martin gave Charlie the phone and Clint Eastwood was on the other line.
“I said, ‘Hello’ and it’s that very recognizable, globally famous voice: It’s Clint,” said Charlie. “He said something to the effect of , ‘You gotta get the train back on the tracks. kid, You’re worth saving.’”
“It was really powerful,” Charlie added of Eastwood’s remarks. “I thanked him, gave the phone back to my dad and said, ‘All right, let’s go.’”
But Charlie left rehab shortly after he got there to judge a Hawaiian Tropic bikini competition in Palm Springs, Calif. with his pal Nicholas Cage. Charlie wrote a promise to the facility’s night nurse that he’d return by 8 a.m. or he would pay her $1 million, which she agreed to.
“It was as fantabulous and sexy and as exciting as it could have been,” he said about the contest.
Charlie returned to rehab at 7:40 a.m., earlier than promise, and the night nurse said she “was happy for me, but disappointed for herself.”
“She said, ‘Well, whatever, you’re a man of your word. Welcome back. We kept your room for you,’” Charlie added.
Charlie put an ice cube up his butt filming ‘Free Money’
While filming the 1998 black comedy “Free Money” in Montreal, Charlie went to great lengths to stay awake after a marathon cocaine bender.
“That had never happened before,” he recalled. “I 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 scene.”
Charlie got an 18-hour nose bleed shooting ‘Money Talks’
Charlie’s drug addiction also caused issues when he was filming the 1997 action comedy “Money Talks.”
“I got an 18-hour nosebleed from doing too much cocaine,” Charlie said. “I just kept kind of blotting it.
“There was one night where it actually dripped onto my shirt during a scene. I got the director, Brett Ratner, to make that shot go away forever,” he explained. “And he did, because we’ve never seen it, right?”
Denise Richards gave Charlie’s hookers sandwiches
Charlie and Denise Richards got married in 2002 and welcomed two daughters, Sami and Lola, before they separated in 2005 and divorced in 2006.
As Charlie was spiraling towards the end of his run on “Two and a Half Men,” Richards said producers would call her and ask her to check on him, even though they weren’t married anymore.
“They would call me all the f—ing time to go there, because i can’t get fired. I was your ex-wife. I was already fired,” she said in the doc. “So when they were desperate, they would be like, ‘Can you please come over and see if he’s alive? We haven’t seen him for two days.’”
Richards recalled once showing up to Charlie’s place and caught him with hookers.
“I remember I brought food and Jon Cryer was there. And I’m making sandwiches and Jon was super nervous. He goes, ‘What are you doing?’ I go, ‘Well, he hasn’t eaten and I’m making sandwiches,’” she said.
“And then you see two or three hookers come down the stairs,” Richards continued. “And I remember Jon asking me, ‘You’re making them sandwiches?’ I go, ‘Well, yeah.’ What am I gonna say? Umm, sorry, because of what you do for a living you don’t get one of my white-trash mayo, mustard, turkey, cheese lettuce sandwiches? It wasn’t like I was making a gourmet sandwich.”
Richards noted that at the time she was “trying to help him get good.”
Charlie’s drug dealer helped him get sober
Charlie, who is now 8 years sober, eventually stopped using drugs thanks to his dealer, Marco.
“I just became very fond of him,” Marco said in the doc. “Damn, that’s my bro, right there. I can’t let that dude die. He’s too f—ing cool.”
Marco explained that “little by little, I started to reduce the amount of cocaine that I was using to cook the crack. It looked exactly the same, but it was just less potent. It took about a good year and a half, but that’s why he got sober. He just got tired of smoking about crack, which he thought was good crack. He just wanted to stop doing it.”
Charlie recalled, “They were trying to get me off of crack by making weaker crack. I was quite impressed when I found out later, I didn’t know when it was going on. Talk about being forced to think so far out the box that you land on that.”
Charlie denied sexual assault allegations
In 2020, Corey Feldman claimed in his documentary, “(My) Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys,” that Corey Haim allegedly told him that Charlie had raped him in 1986 during the filming of “Lucas.” Haim was 13 and Sheen was 19 at the time of filming.
Charlie called the allegation “absolutely f—ing bullshit” in the doc.
“I should have taken legal action against Feldman,” the “Platoon” actor said. “But I didn’t feel like giving that clown that much more credit. He went out of his way to launch this thing, and we were friends back in a day or so I thought. It’s a piece of vile fiction, is what it is.”
Charlie also pointed out that Haim’s mom previously disputed Feldman’s claim.
Charlie paid sexual partners to keep his HIV diagnosis a secret
Charlie learned he had HIV in 2011 and went public with his diagnosis in 2015.
In the doc, Charlie insisted he was always “upfront” about his diagnosis to his sexual partners.
“I was wearing condoms, and I was, by then, completely undetectable. I was checking every box,” he explained.
“They’d be going into the drawers, my bathroom, photographing my meds,” he claimed. “They were sitting on, like, these insurance policies. Then I’d stop seeing them and that’s what would come out, the threat of ‘we’re going to expose your thing.’ I had to pay them.”
Charlie said the lowest he paid someone to keep quiet about his diagnosis was $500,000.
“And that was getting off cheap. That was getting them to agree in the first conversation,” he shared, adding that he paid one person $4.1 million.
“But you know what, within all the craziness, there’s only one person in the entire f—ing mix that still has this thing, that has it, period, and that’s this guy,” Charlie said. “Nobody got this from me. Period, the end, full stop, nobody did so.”
Charlie had sex with men
Charlie said it was “liberating” to finally reveal he’s had sex with men.
“You know, it’s like a train didn’t come through the restaurant. A piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me,” he said. “No no, it’s uncharted.”
The Emmy nominee added that he doesn’t regret experimenting with men.
“So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f—ing fun, and life goes on,” he said. “Look at the state of the f—ing world. Look at the unflushed f—ing toilet that we live in today and where we’re headed. This, the other side of that menu really f—ing matters? If someone doesn’t want to hire me because ‘he did all that s–t’? Whatever, didn’t want to work with you anyway.”
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez didn’t appear in the documentary
“Emilio and Dad, they fully support me,” Charlie said about his famous brother and father. “They’re rooting for me in ways you can’t even imagine. But I can’t expect people to revisit all the drug abuse and all the sh—y choices that hurt the people I love. Would I love them both in this? Absolutely. But I completely understand why they chose not to.”
But Charlie admitted that he hopes Martin watches the doc.
“I think it is hard for sons to always share with their fathers what is truly in their hearts,” he said. “I hope he sees some of this as the love letter to him that it is.”
“aka Charlie Sheen” is streaming on Netflix.
Let’s be honest—no matter how stressful the day gets, a good viral video can instantly lift your mood. Whether it’s a funny pet doing something silly, a heartwarming moment between strangers, or a wild dance challenge, viral videos are what keep the internet fun and alive.