By Mallory Mattingly
Getting sober isn’t an easy feat, but Charlie Sheen knows the alternative, candidly sharing why he decided to ditch drugs and alcohol for good eight years ago.
“I’ve decided to move through at this really amazing stage,” Sheen told Fox News. “Dope and booze, at those levels, that’s a young person’s game. That’s not for us AARP types.”
“There really aren’t challenges with sobriety,” he continued. “I’m not connected to the people of the past…If I were to go back to those choices to numb myself, get out of my head, or feel differently, I have so much evidence that it’s only going to make things worse and more complicated. I’d suddenly be steeped in shame. And with that comes deceit and manipulation. All that [stuff] doesn’t fit in anymore.”
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Sheen realized he needed to make a change after seven family interventions, multiple divorces, legal battles and becoming HIV-positive.
“When I finally decided that I was going to make AA a place that I passed through and not wound up in, that’s when I felt like I was the captain of my own ship,” he explained. “That’s when I knew that I was going to make a promise to myself and honor it.”
“I was never a guy that saw this stuff as life-threatening,” he added. “If I did, I probably never would’ve done it. That’s the reason why I never did heroin, because I knew that I would do it once and die or do it every day for the rest of my life until I died. There is that first intervention on my dad’s 50th birthday. That was a moment where I was actually grateful for that intervention.”
Sheen opens up about his life and making amends in his new book The Book of Sheen and two-part documentary on Netflix, AKA CHARLIE SHEEN.
“This was an opportunity to take back the narrative, to finally tell my stories as they really happened as opposed to a lot of the blanks and the events and the things that people have just egregiously filled in over the years,” Sheen said.
In a statement announcing the book, he said, “My stories have been told for far too long through the eyes and pens of others. I think you’ll agree, it’s time to finally read these stories directly from the actual guy.”
It’s safe to say that Sheen is grateful for his eight years of sobriety.
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