Charlie Sheen fans know to always expect the unexpected when it comes to the legendary actor.
It can be unfiltered, so you 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 talking point.
The ‘Two and a Half Men’ star said his HIV was “entirely manageable”, but he revealed he thought there was once a better treatment option.
Sheen, 60, explained how an experimental drug he took to manage his HIV never saw the light of day.
“There was one that was really good and I was hoping it would come to market one day, but it never did,” Sheen said. “It was something called PRO 140. It was a MAB [monoclonal antibody] this had a lot… just faster and I think more stable results with no side effects than traditional.
When asked why the drug never came to market, Sheen replied, “It’s a threat, I guess…It works better than what they have.” »
According to Sheen, the company that created the drug got into trouble. Mandel suggested they should “get to the bottom of this”, with Sheen sharing the same sentiment.
While the star was on “Good Morning America” during a recent appearance, the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” actor delved into his past sexual relationships with men, which he believes ultimately led to him contracting the virus.
But Sheen said his whole spiral began with his addiction to crack cocaine.
“That’s what started it,” he admitted. “That’s where everything was born or sparked. And during the periods of time when I was out of the pipe, I was trying to navigate it, trying to accept it – ‘Where did this come from? Why did this happen? – and then finally I was like, ‘So what?’ So what? Some things were weird. A large part 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 only made his status public because he was being blackmailed for millions of dollars.
He even wrote about the feeling of “relief” he felt in his memoir, “The Book of Sheen.”
But since learning of his status, Sheen has insisted he is safe.
“I know for a fact I never passed it on,” he shared with People in September.
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