Charlie Sheen says he still gets ‘shame shivers’ after wild past with drugs and call

Charlie Sheen has confessed to the lingering embarrassment he still feels about his tumultuous past after reaching eight years of sobriety.

At the height of his stardom, the Two and a Half Men star led a wild and debauched life, plunging headlong into drugs and prostitution.

In the 1990s he testified about paying more than $50,000 for call girls employed by ‘Hollywood Madam’ Heidi Fleiss, and in 2010 he was allegedly thrown out of the Plaza Hotel in New York after trashing his room while high on cocaine.

During his explosive divorce from Denise Richards in 2005, she accused him of making death threats against her, shoving her and endangering their children due to his penchant for prostitutes and pornography. 

Now Charlie, 59, who is HIV positive, has spoken candidly about trying to make amends with others and forgive himself after getting clean in 2017.

‘Forgiveness is still an evolving thing. I still get what I call the “shame shivers.” These are the moments that hit me, of the heinous memories and choices and consequences,’ he told People magazine in a cover interview.

Charlie Sheen has confessed to the lingering embarrassment he still feels about his tumultuous past after reaching years of sobriety

Charlie Sheen has confessed to the lingering embarrassment he still feels about his tumultuous past after reaching years of sobriety

‘They’re getting farther in between, so I guess that’s progress. What has been interesting about making amends is that most people have been like: “Hey yeah, we’re good man, but we hope you’ve also forgiven yourself.”‘