Charlie Sheen fans know to always expect the unexpected when it comes to the legendary actor.
He can be unfiltered so you just never know what the guy might say.
Which brings us to his recent appearance on the “Howie Mendal Does Stuff” podcast. Sheen’s HIV status — he announced he had the disease in 2015 – was the big topic of discussion.
The “Two and a Half Men” star said his HIV has been “completely manageable,” but he revealed he believes there was once a better option for treatment out there.
Sheen, 60, detailed how an experimental drug he once took to manage his HIV never saw the light of day.
“There was one that was really good that I was hoping would come to market one day, and it never did,” Sheen explained. “That was a thing called PRO 140. It was an MAB [monoclonal antibody] that had much … just quicker and I think more stable results with no side effects than the traditional.”
When asked why the medicine never made it to the market, Sheen replied, “It’s a threat, I suppose. … It works, better than what they have.”
The way Sheen explains it, he said the company that created the medication got into trouble. Mandel suggested that they should “get to the bottom of this,” Sheen shared the same sentiment.
While the star was on “Good Morning America” during a recent appearance, the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” actor dove into his past sexual encounters with men, which he believes ultimately led to him contracting the virus.
But Sheen said his entire spiral began with his addiction to crack.
“That’s what started it,” he admitted. “That’s where it was born or sparked. And in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it — ‘Where did that come from? Why did that happen? — and then just finally being like, ‘So what?’ So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was [expletive] fun, and life goes on.”
Sheen appeared on the “Today” show in 2015 and revealed his HIV status, saying doctors had detected the virus four years prior. He claimed he went public with his status only because he was being blackmailed for millions of dollars.
He even wrote about the sense of “relief” he felt in his memoir, “The Book of Sheen.”
But since learning of his status, Sheen has been adamant that he’s been safe.
“I do know for a fact that I never passed it on,” he shared with People in September.
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