![]() “It’s not available because if you try it once you might die and your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. “Sure, I am on a drug and it’s called Charlie Sheen,” he replied, jittery but with a self-mocking grin. “People are thinking you gotta be on drugs,” a TV journalist said to him in 2012. Sheen steals the show in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.Įven at his most out of control in 2011-12, when he made rambling threats against Chuck Lorre, the producer of Two and a Half Men, and insisted he was filled with “tiger blood”, he maintained an eloquence and sense of humour that made him far more compelling than the usual strung-out celebrity. But you only need to spend a few moments in Sheen’s company to see how he got away with it for so long. ![]() The beautiful boy who 30 years ago stole the whole of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in one scene when he played, appropriately, an eloquent drug addict now looks like the ghost of an old man. But there’s only so much a body can take and the decades of substance abuse are written all over his hollowed face and busted body. The Sheen/Estevez men have excellent genes: his father, Martin Sheen, 75, and brother, Emilio Estevez, 54, still look terrific. Still only 50, he is silver tongued and (mostly) focused but he has the hunched gait of a man 20 years older. Nonetheless, today he looks shockingly (if not surprisingly) terrible. Even Sheen eventually realised this was a terrible idea and returned to more conventional treatment. He is back under medical supervision after briefly abandoning his antiretroviral treatment medication to be treated by a man in Mexico, who claimed he could cure HIV with the milk of arthritic goats. He has given up the drugs, he says, but not the booze, although he’s “a sipper, not a drinker”. The past and the present, presumably.īut on good days Sheen’s affability is in inverse correlation to his reliability, and he has cheered up by the time we meet, perhaps due to the faint smell of alcohol on his breath. ![]() Two days earlier, I’m told in a hushed tone, he reduced two journalists in Sweden to tears for focusing too much on the wrong things. I’m tired like a bitch! Sorry, I shouldn’t say that to a lady – I’m tired like an ass.” Initially, I was told I could ask him “anything” but the increasingly nervous PR suggests I don’t ask about “the past” or “too much about HIV”. Sheen’s people insist the delays are because he didn’t know there was an interview other people whisper “hangover”. By the time I finally meet him, my interview has been put back by a day and a half. But not as exhausting as working with him must be. Cooper makes a big smile: “Naw, usually it’s great!” There was some quarrelling.īeing Charlie Sheen sounds like a full-time job, I say. He and Cooper then talk about other events at the launch party last night, mainly involving Sheen inviting some women to dinner who Cooper didn’t think should come. “You’re very sweet, thank you,” he says squeezing my arm, although I hadn’t exactly meant it as a compliment. Sheen has claimed to have slept with more than 5,000 women and he admitted to being a client of Heidi Fleiss’s prostitution ring in the 90s. Well, you’ve banked a lot of non-drought moments, I say. He is, he explains, going through “kind of a drought at the moment”. Sheen has apparently forgotten he’s supposed to be fronting a condom. What’s my opening line? ‘Wanna come up and risk your life?’” “But I’m the fucking Aids guy, so what am I going to say? ‘Come to the hotel and have a scone?’ It’s shit city, man. “No! It’s the one time I wanted the story to be true!” he cries. Welcome to the British tabloids, I say, thinking he is cross about this rumour. “She was at the launch party last night, and now – now all the tabloids are saying we’re together!” Sheen says, eyebrows raised in bewilderment. “Reality TV star,” adds an older man called Cooper, who is variously introduced to me as Sheen’s “best friend” and his “bodyguard”. “Do you know a Jess?” Sheen asks me with his familiar wolfish grin. Photograph: Allstar/PARAMOUNT/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/Paramount
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