aka Charlie Sheen (2025) s01e01 Episode Script

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Manly men, men, men
Men, men, men, men, manly men
Ooh-hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo, ooh
Men, men, men, men
Manly men, men, men
Men, men, men, men
Manly men, 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, uh,
when I started, I had hair.
I had some trepidation
about participating in this,
partially because
part of the cycle of Charlie's life
has been, uh, that he messes up terribly,
he hits rock-bottom,
and then he gets things, uh,
he gets things going again
and brings a lot of positivity
in his life,
and that's when
he burns himself out again,
and he just can't help
but set that house on fire.
And I didn't want
to be a part of that cycle.
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
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 our soggy freaking wine excursion.
Platoon and Wall Street
were huge in Japan,
and so I was selling Madras shoes,
Tokyo Gas air conditioners and heaters,
and Parliament cigarettes.
Donna was the model
in the Parliament commercial.
Yes, tensions were high.
We were a little short with each other.
I finally just said, "Fuck it."
I needed something quick and strong.
So I power probably four, five, six shots.
Of course, a lot of people recognize me.
The navigator was outside the cockpit.
"Mr. Sheen,
would you like to come meet the captain?"
I'm like, "Hell yeah!" 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, "Oui, monsieur."
"It'd even be cooler
if I was wearing your cap."
He's like, "Of course."
I said, "If we're gonna 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 copilot flicks a switch…
…and says, "Not 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 just perfect,
magical flying machine
responding 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 it 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 model Donna Peele
are calling it quits.
Drunk off your ass…
Drunk.
…flying a passenger plane,
400 people behind you,
are you thinking to yourself,
"Holy shit, I'm untouchable"?
Does that happen? Does that go through
a guy's mind when he has that power?
Yes.
I am sitting in the morning
At the diner on the corner…
-Know the best about diners?
-What?
There's no surprises.
If you walk into a diner
with unrealistic expectations
of what they have to offer…
Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
…go fuck yourself.
Cheers.
Are you sober today?
How long have you been sober?
-I knew you were gonna ask me that.
-Yeah.
I am sober today.
In my seventh year, which is pretty good.
But by the time people see this,
unless things go tragically sideways,
uh, that will still be the case.
Oh, we're ready to go?
How do you imagine
structuring the story of Charlie Sheen?
I think we could break it down…
…into these three portions
or these three sections.
It was partying,
partying with problems…
Fucking A, man!
…and then just problems.
Last time I took drugs, uh,
I probably took more
than anybody could survive, you know?
-What are we talking about? How much?
-I don't know.
I was banging seven-gram rocks
and finishing them. That's how I roll.
I have one speed, one gear. "Go."
Charlie Sheen was among
the clients of her $1,500 hookers.
Is there gonna 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 got a lot of shame
about a lot of stuff,
shame-- shame is suffocating.
-Your husband's name?
-It's Charlie Sheen.
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? Um…
Where are you with that?
I'm, uh…
He spent much
of Christmas Day on lockdown.
The stuff I plan on sharing,
I had made a sacred vow years ago
to only reveal to a therapist.
You judged me, condemned me, discarded me.
Well, not anymore. Winning!
I think there's so many stories and many
ingrained images in people's minds
about the concept of me.
Not even, like, think of me as a person.
They think of me as a concept
or a specific moment in time.
There's only one person alive
that has the answers to…
to so many people's questions about me.
And that's…
I can feel no sense of measure
No illusions as we take
Refuge in young man's pleasure
Breaking down the dreams we make
Real
Fuck, somebody call "Action."
One down, one to go
Another town and one more show
Downtown, they're givin' away
But she never came back
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.
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.
Leave it
When your life starts like that,
basically doesn't start,
it can do a number on your head.
My birth name is Carlos Irwin Estevez.
And Irwin came from the doctor
that delivered me and saved me.
There's four of us.
I'm third, and Ramon is right above me,
and 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?
I'm gonna get ahold of Frank Kamer,
have him take a look at you,
run some tests.
Ladies and gentlemen, Martin Sheen!
Lived in New York 'til I was three.
And then Dad, well, he decided early on,
"Sell the furniture, it's time."
"We're… we're outtie."
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 travel the highway
any time of 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 rich.
That's far from it.
I used to go to his house and stay in,
what do you call those, beanbags?
There was nothing extravagant
about what they had.
They didn't grow up with that life.
So you had auto mechanics
and school teachers on your street.
Nothing like today.
Like I say, it was great because it was
kinda like Huckleberry Finn by the water.
We shared a moment of youth that's magic.
Let's go, man.
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 for 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.
-What are you doing?
-Mom--
Cut it out, Mom.
My parents gave us
our first Super 8 Camera
when I was 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 seek revenge."
I don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
My brother, Emilio, was always with me.
The way you did before
Okay
The Mighty Ducks!
You think you got a pretty face
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, um,
that went on for a long time.
Fox on the run
You scream
And everybody come a-running
Take a run and hide yourself away
-Charlie, is there film in there?
-Hell yeah.
Fuck you.
And those 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 made that very clear
that he wanted us
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.
…afraid to say something…
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 substances, right?
-Yeah.
-That was that story.
-Yeah.
-Did you know that?
I sensed it.
There is a moment, um, 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.
I remember I could smell it.
I could smell the booze.
And he wasn't home, he wasn't there.
And he had a Ka-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…
It was-- He was-- He had departed.
So then I come to find out that that was
in the middle of the opening sequence.
Come back!
He was there
for a couple of months without us,
and then started hearing rumors
that Dad was sick.
Dave Salven let Melissa tell
Barry Hirsch Marty had a heart attack.
What the fuck is that?
Do you know that's gonna be
all over Hollywood in half an hour?
If Marty dies,
I want to hear that everything's okay
until I say Marty is dead. 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 baseball gloves.
I was playing baseball at the time.
So we'd go out somewhere on the grounds,
and we'd start throwing the ball.
The first day, it might have been
at five feet for ten throws.
Next day it might've been
at ten 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,
his focus back, just get his life back.
Yeah, this fucking mattered.
Yeah, it was, um…
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
what's 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.
But I can't expect people
to revisit all the drug abuse
and all the shitty choices
that hurt the people I love.
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, Dad.
I guess I never told you.
But I love you, Dad.
We kept making Super 8 films
back on the ranch.
What are you doing?
And after Apocalypse,
the Super 8's got way darker.
A lot of murder in your movies.
Look what was happening to our dad.
We were basically duplicating,
emulating what Dad was doing.
I was five and he was six
We rode on horses make of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight
Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
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!
But I think we recognized early on,
those types of plot lines were compelling.
No!
What you are seeing here
is a man in great pain,
beaten by the Mob and dying.
If you decide to do it,
I got to know by tonight.
-What about the money?
-Money's no problem.
Martin was a big thing for all of us.
-Don't you have anything better to do?
-I wanted to…
Do you have to push?
I know whose dog that is.
I know what you did to my little brother.
Son of a bitch!
I'm doing nothing, man.
I'm here and I'm doing nothing.
-So it's a little boring. I mean--
-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 productions…
…there was a lot of weed involved.
So that was really the first drug.
There was a lot of pot.
Drugs played a large role in it
as they got older
and started experimenting
with, uh… everything.
Well, it's weird,
I drank the stuff, and I just…
I can't seem to remember
what happened next.
But 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 spent the next hour puking.
And then I guess the normal person
parks it and says, "That didn't work out."
The abnormal person says,
"I'm feeling good enough to try again,
hopefully with a better result," you know.
You have this other friend in Tony Todd,
who had nothing to do with that, right?
No, none of it.
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Tony's one of my favorite people ever.
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, so…
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.
-In your whole…?
Yeah, he's touched
every decade, every era, every…
All of it, you know?
Now, we want you to sort of go
up to the car like that, weave through.
I would think that
we're 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.
If you look closely, he bears
a good resemblance to Martin Sheen,
one of Hollywood's
most sought-after actors
and star of Apocalypse Now.
He uses his real name and keeps it
a good secret about his famous father.
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, that good stuff.
And then Emilio said, "Okay, 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 imagined before that.
I beat you!
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 has this 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.
All the fun. I see 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.
But I may hold the record.
I have an attendance record
of somewhere
in the 30 percentile range and a GPA…
I think it's like a 1.2.
Oh, yeah.
Charlie didn't graduate from high school.
And then his dad was on his case about,
"You've got to get out and get a job."
All right, fine.
So I told my parents, I said,
"Look, let me explore the acting thing."
"Let me audition this first summer.
Let me do this."
"Look what Emilio
and 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 become an editor
or a cinematographer
or a freaking… Something."
They were like, "Okay, deal."
So I was Charlie Estevez
all the way through high school.
But personal disappointments,
you know, school, girls…
Yeah, it just-- 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 then I said,
"I think Charlie Sheen just, you know,
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-- It's the role of Charlie Sheen.
And, uh, it's a good one.
My first summer of auditioning,
I 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.
Could you tell us
what that movie is and what…
It's shit.
It's called Grizzly II: The Predator.
It's a sequel to Grizzly.
Jesus Christ!
Somebody help me! Somebody help me!
And there's Laura Dern and George Clooney.
Pretty good company, right?
We're in the first scene
as these three campers.
They're dating, and I'm third wheel guy.
Lance…
We shot the film in Budapest.
Right before I left, I had this audition.
That was the biggest project in 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, for what?"
"One of the hoodlums
on that team of bad guys?"
And they're like,
"No. Danny. For the guy."
I was offered
the lead role in The Karate Kid.
Yeah, so that was a big deal.
This was like a huge moment.
This would've been a star-turning moment.
I said, "I've got to go to Budapest."
I took it to my dad and said,
"Hey, man, I got this thing."
"It's a life-changing opportunity
and so, um…
they want me in karate training,
like, tomorrow."
He said, "Well, there's a problem here."
"You gave this other company your word."
I said, "But it's forgettable.
It's a thing, like eight lines."
He said, "None of that matters.
You gave them your word."
"Your word in this business is going
to carry you further than one big movie."
So we politely told The Karate Kid people,
if they could wait two weeks, I'm all in.
They said they couldn't.
They said they couldn't.
So that-- 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.
You know, it--
it goes like that sometimes.
It was-- 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.
-Do you feel…?
Not one bit. Yeah.
Yeah, it went on to burn down the world
and spawn, what, five sequels or whatever.
And he probably made $20 million.
However, I don't know
that it necessarily, um,
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.
An interesting thing that happened
around that time,
he becomes a dad.
There's probably people
who don't know you have daughters or sons…
Yeah, no, I have, uh… I have five…
I'm sorry.
I have five children
and, uh, three granddaughters.
Cassandra, my first child,
will be 40 this year, which is…
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, um, 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, a lot of support.
And I'm thinking,
"It's time to focus my sights forward."
If there's a Hollywood director
who has a creative finger
on the pulse of today's high school kids,
it's John Hughes.
With Sixteen Candles
and The Breakfast Club,
he endeared himself to the teen crowd.
I think he's very honest. He doesn't try
to show us for something that we're not.
Rolling.
One day, I get this strange phone call
from Jennifer Grey, who was a friend.
I told you I was telling the truth, Daddy.
She says, "I'm doing this big movie,"
which was Ferris Bueller's Day Off, right?
"We're filming in Long Beach.
You should come down,
and I 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, "What?
Who is this guy? What's the scene?"
She's like, "Don't worry.
Just read it, prepare as best as you can,
and get your ass down there."
So Ramon was going through
this punk rock phase, right?
He had a leather jacket
I wanted to borrow.
He was a smoker at the time.
So I dug into his ashtray
and darkened my eyes with 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.
I got the sides, the jacket, the thing.
I got the hair going on.
I'm like,
"Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Hughes."
And he's like, "Wow, look at you."
"You look great, kid.
Uh, see you next week."
I'm like, "Yeah, see you next week."
Jennifer's like, "Good job!"
I'm like, "What the fuck did I do?"
"All I did was get out of my car."
So I got this gig.
But this other opportunity arises.
And this kind of just dropped in our laps.
Martin and Charlie Sheen are going
to take on the great Michael Jordan,
the great basketball player.
Dad's 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?
Uh, just primarily to score,
if at all possible.
So the day of this event,
and I've got the sides, and I say,
"Dad, can we work on the scene in the limo
on the way down to playing Jordan?"
He says, "Yeah. Okay, what do you got?"
"So you're pissed off 'cause he ditches
and doesn't get caught. Is that it?"
So we read it once.
"You ought to spend more
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."
He says, "No, exactly what you just did
is what you need to do when you film it."
I said, "But I did nothing."
He says, "Exactly."
There's no acting today.
It's all for real.
A high school gymnasium,
the bleachers are filled
with kids that go to 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 shoot free throws.
We're not worried about that.
We're good from the stripe.
The HORSE game, we figured, that's him.
We don't have a shot there.
He's gonna 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.
We've got to come together
and show this dude what we're made of.
I missed the first shot.
A miss.
But the universe that day had some give.
Woo!
Right on. Two for three for Charlie Sheen.
The young girls here really like Charlie.
And he's putting on a good show for them.
Then I proceed to hit eight in a row.
Perfect!
I guess the detail that I omitted
is he had to shoot with his eyes closed.
But come on,
we've got to introduce handicaps.
He needs just one more.
And he does it!
Martin and Charlie Sheen
defeat Michael Jordan in foul shooting
to take a one-nothing lead
in their three-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 Dad…
…nails it.
That was that moment when you know
there's something
bigger than us in the mix here.
Charlie with the rebound.
Out to Martin.
Baseline, left to Charlie.
It's good! And look at Charlie Sheen.
Is he ever happy?
That's it, folks.
The Sheens are victorious.
Ten to five is the final score.
It's like trying to process,
"I just made a basket
being defended by Michael Jordan."
The whole ride back home
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 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 like 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, no dope,
nothing involved in that night
preparing for this.
"You ought to spend more time
dealing with yourself."
"Less time worrying
about what your brother does."
This was just purely organic
method approach, you know.
"I need to look tired,
so I'm gonna be tired."
My call time down there
was like 6:00 a.m.,
and I set my alarm for 4:30.
I was going to leave at 5:00,
give myself an hour.
And I did that stupid thing
where the alarm went off
and I was like,
"I'll just grab that extra ten minutes."
And that extra ten minutes
turned into an extra hour and a half.
The next time I saw the clock,
it was 6:30, and I'm in a fucking panic.
So, there were no cell phones.
You couldn't really let anybody know.
They're all there, like,
"What happened to dude?"
And I finally get down there.
It's probably like 7:00-7:15.
And there's Jennifer Grey, man.
And she's pacing. She's back and forth.
I pull up, and I kinda 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.
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,
"I can do this and get away with things"?
Maybe subconsciously.
We rehearsed it a couple times,
and he just started rolling camera.
And action.
I got very little direction that day.
I had this thing
where I used to crack my knuckles.
He had a couple cameras on the scene,
and his guy drifted down to that.
That's in the movie.
I think I came close to honoring
what Dad recommended
to the approach to the scene.
So you're pissed off because he ditches
and doesn't get caught. Is that it?
-Basically.
-Basically.
Then your problem is you.
Excuse me?
Excuse you.
You ought to spend
more time dealing with yourself.
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, some trash in the city.
And you lost that one?
I wouldn't be here if I hadn't.
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.
It is 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.
Everybody loved the movie overall.
One lady in particular,
I can't remember her name…
But at the very end of the review,
she says 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."
Yeah, 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.
I thought, "Wow, isn't it great?"
You know, to see someone
you knew in your childhood
finding a big zone of expression
and having so much to offer it.
-You're about 21?
-I am 21, yeah.
People your age, do they know much
about Vietnam in your own experience?
Yeah, uh… to a certain extent,
what they… teach you
in history in high school.
I had auditioned for Platoon,
and it was a train wreck.
And then Platoon
was greenlit shortly after that.
And Emilio was going
to be playing the lead role.
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.
What's that smirk on your face?
-There's something here, like…
-It's the way things had to go.
Do you have a sibling rivalry?
As far as film competition,
I think that's all--
It's a waste of time.
We're not up for the same parts.
We don't play the same types.
You were on the set when your dad
was shooting Apocalypse Now.
-Right.
-Was this similar?
I was witnessing this Coppola-esque
$40 million production as an 11-year-old.
And now going back, uh,
ten years later to do Platoon,
like, my version,
um, it was kind of scary,
but it was like a strange,
symbolic homecoming for me.
Dance! Dance!
Dance! One-legged motherfucker!
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.
I said, "I know where Wall Street is.
What's the movie about?"
He said, "It's the story of a young trader
seduced by the promise of quick gains."
I'm like,
"Alright, that sounds pretty cool."
Look, Dixon, relax. It's not illegal
to buy stock or to be accurate.
It's not that unusual
to be spot-checked on a big buy.
Say you did your homework and thought
the stock was a sound investment.
The nominees for Best Picture are…
Platoon…
I was in New York filming Wall Street,
watching Platoon up 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 at 20,
you know what I mean? It's like, uh…
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.
Wild thing!
It's Charlie Sheen, man.
The hugest star in the world.
Wild thing!
I was on a level that couldn't be touched.
One night, I decide 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, 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.
In the cool of the evening
When everything is gettin' kinda groovy
And 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, "Nic?"
I lost my hand!
Love is kinda crazy
With a spooky little boy like you
Hey, Birdy.
We got some dancing to do.
Nicolas Cage!
I admired how he's not interested
in anybody's opinion.
He's not looking for anyone's approval.
Our friendship,
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 partying.
Snorting cocaine and tons of booze.
Poppers. Ecstasy.
That's great.
Just the menu was filled with options.
Our gang. And 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 brang.
Charlie was a different kind
of life at the party.
So good 'cause I got you Woo!
We were like this runaway train.
It's like we were all…
Something was missing.
And by this connection,
suddenly it wasn't.
And, uh, that's a lot of responsibility
to everybody's American knight.
We wound up
on an airplane to San Francisco.
Everybody was high as shit.
And then it happened.
Nic got ahold of the intercom handset.
There was no warm-up.
He launched into,
"This is your captain speaking."
"Uh… I'm not…"
"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 to a place,
whatever his intentions were,
that just were wildly inappropriate.
And you can hear people screaming,
demanding information
from the flight crew.
-You can't… Good Lord.
-No.
And then when we landed,
the pilot came out and he said,
"Not cool, not fing cool."
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 Nic 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 what's going to happen next.
One of the guys
was a big enough fan of mine,
big enough fan of Nic's,
and he just decided to, uh, you know,
"Make sure this doesn't happen again,
young man." Um, and 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, uh… Phew.
Charlie always managed
to walk a tightrope.
You wanted to like him, um, because
he was really charming and smart
and terrific at what he does as an actor.
You know, but also, uh, 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 talking directly to the source.
And that's exactly what we did.
-No. Sorry.
-We're glad you're okay.
-Thank you.
-Go over it. We've heard so many accounts.
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? Uh…
There's always 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…
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."
She's like, "We're thinking 9:00."
I'm like, "A.M.?" She's like, "Yeah."
I'm like, "Uh… okay."
"What should I get him?"
"He doesn't need anything."
"You know your father.
He'll give it away."
You can hear this car
coming a mile away, right?
And so Mom hears me pull in the driveway.
And she comes out, and she gives me a hug.
She says, "I have to ask you something."
I'm like, "Yeah, anything."
She says, "Are you armed?"
I thought she was joking, right?
I said, "No, why would I--?"
"No, Mom, come on. Maybe there's
something in the trunk, but no."
She says, "Okay, good.
I just had to find out, you know?"
So she brings me in the house.
And I'm looking for balloons,
looking for a cake, for funny hats.
I'm looking for something that screams
"birthday party" and there's nothing.
And as I get
kind of coming around the corner,
I see the living room has this 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 seventh-grade
history teacher, Mr. Vincent,
at his birthday party when no one's seen
the guy for, I don't know, 15 years?
There's Bikram Choudhury,
my yoga instructor.
Rob Lowe is there.
Okay, there's a familiar face.
And then Emilio and Renée,
Ramon, my parents.
And 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, you know, I was not, you know,
walking a perfect trail of my own
in some regards.
And…
I haven't said a fucking word,
because there's a lot to process.
I'd kind of heard about these things,
but never been
this close to an intervention.
And they go around the room.
They've all got something written,
and it's very emotional.
I said, "Uh, is this a situation where now
I'm given some time to think about this?"
They said, "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.
Who can tell me what they did wrong?
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 trying to tell him
what to do with his life.
Why? Huh?
Nothing more than a complete
and total pain in my ass!
Feeling is mutual, son.
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,
it'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 says, "Someone on the phone
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 voice.
And it's Clint.
I ain't going to lose this one.
Now you can either stand out of my way,
or you can be my partner and back me 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, uh, 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 go."
We were in a car on the way down to rehab.
Dad driving, Mom in the front,
a couple of people on either side of me.
I was in a people sandwich
because they knew at the first red light
I was probably gonna be that guy.
The intervention was inconvenient because
later on that night or the next morning,
Nic 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 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 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.
She was all business, you know.
I told her, I said,
"I'm not bound by law to be here."
"I got this thing with my buddies
down in the desert,
and I will come
walking back into this facility
tomorrow morning at 8:00 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 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 spoke to this gal.
We got this covered."
He's like, "Cool, man."
And so… I mean, thanks, Nic.
You could have said, "You know, Charles?"
"We're probably going
to pull the plug on that."
And he didn't. And I don't blame him.
Because you're mine
Palm Springs, California!
It's fantabulous and sexy
and as exciting as it could have been.
Number 13!
And I get back to St. John's
at about 7:40.
And she sees me walking up,
and it is such…
I mean, she's kind of happy
that, you know,
that this guy, he's committed to this,
and he showed back up.
So she was happy for me,
but disappointed for herself.
She kind of was like,
"All right, well, whatever."
"You're a man of your word.
Welcome back. We kept your room for you."
My agent, he visited me in rehab
with the Hot Shots! script.
This fell out of the fucking sky
right in my lap.
I don't need your help or 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 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 Nic's castle,
for lack of a different description,
up in the Hollywood Hills.
The neighborhood was kind of sketchy,
but the place was fabulous.
I asked Nic one night,
"Why did you choose this place?"
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, um…"
So I had spent the night, and I woke up.
He wasn't up yet.
I went down to his kitchen.
And I opened his refrigerator.
There was a Foster's lager sitting there.
Lit perfectly,
slow push in on it, you know.
Reverse, push in on me.
I'm like, "Shit, it's Dad's birthday.
It's my birthday too, 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?
That opened the door a little bit.
I would pull waitresses aside,
give them a decent tip and say,
"I need a little wine in 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?
-More or less, yeah.
-Is it?
Yeah, no, I've, uh,
spent a little more time at home
eating a Wolfgang Puck Spicy Chicken
than I do in a bar.
"I just need to take the edge off a bit.
It's not going to lead back
to all the freaking shit
that got me in this mess."
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 Rox,
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 I hadn't seen there before.
And lined up properly,
they were each hotter than the other,
dressed nicely,
and wearing all the right accessories.
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,
"Do you have any plans after this?"
She says, "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, "That's kind of strange.
You come here with your mom, whatever."
Then it clicks.
Okay, these are call girls.
That lady over there is their madam.
Actually, that stuff never bothered me.
What you looking at?
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.
It's 1980. I'm in Vegas.
I'm pretty sure her name was Candy.
So, I have to say, Candy,
if you're out there somewhere, um,
thank you.
How do you unpack that moment
and kind of where it goes from there?
Candy, you know, probably cost me
upwards of 100 million, conservatively.
Can I ask you something,
just one guy to another?
You know, I've never hired a woman.
I'd just think
it's like a blind date, really.
Except that you know
that it's going to be successful.
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. Um…
-In the immortal words of Cary Grant.
-Yes. Yeah.
And the sky was made of amethyst…
Which brings us back
to that fateful night at On The Rox.
And all the stars
Were just like little fish…
The same night I was introduced
to the infamous madam.
You should learn when to go
I said, "I'm Charlie Sheen.
Nice to meet you."
She says, "Hi, my name is Heidi."
You should learn how to say no
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything…
Hey!
Come here.
Hey, come here, babies. Come here.
Hey, what's your problem? Come here.
Come here.
I'm born and raised in LA.
Everything was a perfect storm
to make me the perfect madam.
I was young, arrogant.
I was the best. That's how it is.
I'm not gonna start naming
all the actors I've dealt with,
but everyone you think
is doing it is doing it.
Big deal.
What guy doesn't want to get laid?
And they're paying
for adults doing adult things.
It's 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 in droves.
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'd 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.
And everything was fine. For a while.
Nobody got hurt. Nobody got arrested.
For a while.
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.
I said to her,
"We probably shouldn't do this."
"Is it cool if I just write a check?"
She's like, "Yeah, yeah, no problem."
"No problem whatsoever."
Big problem, oh, so ever.
In 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 connection.
-Yeah, please.
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 Three, 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 paid with traveler's checks.
They were in my Gucci planner,
along with traveler's checks from
Saudi royal families, stuff like that.
Those kinds 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.
Hollywood actors are so scared
about being named in this thing.
Do you realize,
since they cracked down on her,
some of the best acting is going on?
People going, "Heidi who? No."
Heidi has indeed become famous,
attracting the attention
of the news media from all over the world.
Let us through.
It was an intense struggle for Heidi
to get into the Division 30 courtroom.
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.
I'm sitting looking at it,
just bailed 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
I couldn't talk my way out of.
I had meetings with the U.S. Attorney,
and they said,
"We will grant you immunity,
but you have to roll on her."
So… you know, I didn't want to be a rat,
but there was no other way out of it.
Robert Mitchum,
he was arrested for marijuana.
They said, "Tell us your dealer."
He said, "Charge me with a crime."
Charlie should have said, "Charge me."
He's a crybaby rich boy.
He's a rich kid from Malibu.
They're not gonna 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 of gals
and give one to your buddy,
that's pandering."
"That's three to five."
I said, "Well, no, I would never pay
for gals for my pals." You know?
They said, "We have proof that you did."
That was the deal.
That was a thing that was like,
yeah, of course,
a couple of two, three girls show up
and you're with your buddies and it's…
You know, you get to be a hero, right?
And so I didn't know doing that was
such a potential severe violation
of whatever that law is, you know.
So, yeah, I was in the soup, man.
It was a really difficult time.
When you're facing, 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 Fleiss.
Was he a good client, Charlie Sheen?
When I said, "Are you really
trying to put this lady away
for basically running
a successful business
that's one of the oldest
professions on Earth?"
They said, "It's not really about that.
It's about tax evasion."
So I sat with that,
and I felt like… that that, um…
that really kind of on her at that point.
He testified against me,
and I went to jail.
We, the jury,
find the defendant,
Heidi Lynne Fleiss, 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 Juicy.
Opened up on 3rd 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. I was never--"
"The best deal I 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 for 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 again.
That's dealing with failure, you know.
Nobody ever said, "If at first
you succeed… what do you do?"
-You know?
-Yeah. What do you do?
I don't know, run and hide.
The work, the money.
Back in circulation, huh, Charlie?
Oh, yeah. My circulation's fine.
It kept happening.
Sheen reportedly took home
between three and five million dollars.
There were no real consequences.
We proudly welcome
to the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
Charlie Sheen.
Woo!
Damn, you got a lot of pull in this town.
Charlie Sheen, man.
He's always been
loyal to me from the start.
Charlie was executive producing the movie.
And the studio wanted
to give Charlie first billing.
And he was like,
"No, Chris should have first billing."
"I'm having second billing."
He's this huge star,
you know, not being selfish.
Who does that in Hollywood?
-We good?
-Yeah, we're great.
Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker
on the set of Money Talks.
The movie started great,
and we were cooking with gas.
Let's do it again.
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,
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 dripped
onto my shirt during a scene.
And I got the director,
Brett Ratner, to agree to,
you know, make that shot go away forever.
He did,
because we've never seen it, right?
And that's when it starts to get
that the priorities are,
you know, couldn't be
more wonky, you know?
Hey, 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 cocaine, yeah.
So I had 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 kinda spotted it.
He says, "You look
like you're falling asleep on camera,"
which had never happened before.
I said to him, I said, uh,
"I need a glass of ice."
He was like, "Okay."
He gave me a glass of ice.
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.
I'd 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 run
in a couple weeks, right, Louis?
Yes, sir. With assistance.
You're shitting me.
Between the Midwest provinces
and the U.S. banks?
That's us. Right, Louis?
Yes, sir. With assistance.
You sure don't want a beer?
Can I buy you guys a beer?
My theory has always been
that I don't know that he believes
uh, 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 ever 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 all 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 Howell and myself
were kind of seeing at the same time,
and she was really sweet
and sexy and adorable.
She reached out to me one night.
I'm still in my condo in Malibu,
and she said,
"Hey, I'm in a spot that I need
to be extracted from at once."
So I went over there.
It was this kind of semi-rundown
apartment just over the canyon.
Woodland Hills, maybe.
And I pull up,
and it's about ten 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.
He was like, "Who the fuck are you?"
I'm like, "Hey, man,
I don't mean to barge in,
but I'm a friend of Sandy's, and she said
she needed to get out of here."
"So I'm here
to facilitate that, you know?"
And he says,
"Well, hold on a minute." And he…
He fucking grabs her
and pins her 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, or…
And I'm like, "Oh, this is moments
from getting away from everybody."
So he's now looking at me,
and my car is really close,
so I go back to the car, and I got
an HK P7 M13 9 mil in my glove box.
I put that in my waistband.
I come back in the house, and I said,
"Whatever's going on,
let's just call it quits."
"She'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, I'm giving her
some juice and, you know,
a snack, whatever,
trying to be hospitable.
I really like this girl.
And she says, "If you don't mind,
I'm starting to jones a little bit,
and I kind of need
to just get back up on my shit, you know."
And I'm like, "Yeah, sure, whatever."
She pulls out her pipe and loads it up,
and takes a big hit.
And just lies 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.
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."
And 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
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, uh, any class?
-Um…
-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.
I was aware of that.
-In the moment?
-In the moment, yeah.
The duality of those
two conflicting forces…
Banging seven-gram rocks
and finishing them.
…was something that, uh, to this day,
just were peerless, you know?
I mean, I got kind of
a little… shaky telling that.
Yeah.
Not like I'm a fucking sissy,
and I got shaken up by my own story,
but I could feel
some of that shit coming back up.
Um…
Sadly, she died.
She died, yeah. She OD'd on that shit.
She OD'd?
Yeah, I think shortly before
or right after her 30th birthday.
You know, it was just such a loss.
Such a waste.
Is crack the thing
you just wish had never entered your life?
Yeah, if I could, um…
If-if… if I could just kind of…
carve that one out or just erase it,
just take it completely…
out of the equation, um…
yeah, I think it would have--
I probably would have avoided some, uh…
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 quickly.
It's as though
I was suddenly falling forward,
and I could hear
all the blood in 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 know,
fucking Joe Biden steps, right?
My bodyguard, Zip,
was still on the premises.
I said, "You've got to call 911
because this is beyond both of us."
He was admitted to Los Robles
Regional Medical Center at 5:30 a.m.,
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.
First I want to assure you, my son,
Charlie Sheen, is very much alive.
I was kind of in and out,
and 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.
It 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 that.
I said, "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!
Dad is so freaking frustrated,
thinking he and I
were coming to fisticuffs, right?
So he took out his teeth
because he didn't want to damage them.
Somebody said, "Martin, 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.
It's not an easy moment in our lives,
but it is a very important one,
a very necessary one.
Actor Charlie Sheen
skipped the drug rehab center.
Sheen left with his friends
over the weekend to go partying.
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 arrest
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.
Meanwhile, Dad's running around
doing all he can.
I want to get out of the way
of this thing, so that, uh…
uh… 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 Slash's house.
He said, "I don't know that I've seen
anyone before in this kind of shape."
This is Slash, right? Uh…
GNR rock god.
Uh, the life he's led.
He said, "You're out of options.
You've got to get the rehab."
"You've got to save yourself, man."
Coming from him,
the way he presented it, "Whoa."
Um… message delivered.
Dad, I'm going to jail and you know it.
It's the best thing
that could have happened to you.
And with the current circumstances,
in light of what 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, uh… it was out there.
Yeah.
It 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,
that his father, man, just stuck with him.
They take me from the courthouse,
they deliver me to rehab.
And they sedate me heavily.
The equivalent of let's put the elephant
to sleep for a week-sized dose.
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 got to--
I need some air. I 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.
-Stand up!
-Turn around!
Hands above your head. Don't move.
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.
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, skittering
through the night air
so fucking loud you couldn't believe it.
And this thing hits the mud.
Sober gods were like, "All right, man."
"You're gonna get a bit
of shit on you for this one."
I have one hit, and it's not great.
Nothing at that point is great.
I remember sitting in the room,
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 Dick Tracy fedora
that I'd been wearing around town.
They were like, "Where's the dope?"
So I basically just 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-Bulls.
And I said, "All I want to do is be able
to sit down and watch that freaking game."
Are y'all ready for Air Jordan?
-Air who?
-Air who?
He said, "All right,
that's actually a good sign."
"I'm encouraged that you're still seeking
an interest in something that grounded."
To Malone, they double him.
Jordan knocks it away from him.
Jordan's got it.
The Bulls could win it right here.
And I did watch that game.
Michael against Russell, 12 seconds.
11, 10, Jordan.
Jordan at the line, fires.
And he hit The Shot.
He scores!
He stayed the course and I didn't.
…to Martin, baseline, left to Charlie.
It's good!
I knew after that, that game
was going to be my new sobriety date.
Things were gonna be fucking different.
Yeah, a… a lot different.
I had no idea
how badly this could blow up.
I'm doing all right.
Every time the bell rings,
you gotta take a shot.
Why?
Because the bell rings.
Untreated crazy over time
doesn't get better. It gets fucking worse.
Winning!