Charlie Sheen Shares Greatest Lesson of Dependancy Fight
Two and a Half of Males alum Charlie Sheen exclusively told E! Data at the premiere of his documentary aka Charlie Sheen about the classes he learned from his public battle with addiction.
Charlie Sheen is sharing his stout memoir—not correct half of.
Now that the Two and a Half of Males actor is eight years sober, he detailed the supreme lesson he learned from his public downfall and addiction battle, which finally led to his firing from the CBS sitcom.
“I correct don't know what I became as soon as trying to display,” Charlie exclusively told E! Data Sept. 4 at the premiere of his contemporary Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen. “I peaceable haven't cracked that nut. And to rob it that a long way, to address pushing the envelope and chasing no subject that next thing became as soon as? I don't know.”
Truly, the 60-yr-former had a sobering realization—that loss of life might perhaps well also were his handiest wakeup name.
“I had so worthy evidence by that level that there became as soon as if truth be told nothing left aside from a funeral or a wake or something bad,” he continued within the interview, airing tonight on E! Data at 11 p.m. “That's the stuff I look for help on. I’m correct luxuriate in, ‘Huh, that will well also were pulled help a shrimp bit bit.’”
Nevertheless despite his sophisticated streak, Charlie—who is dad to daughter Cassandra, 40, with ex Paula Profit, daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 20, with ex Denise Richards, and twin sons Bob and Max, 16, with ex Brooke Mueller—has been in a field to keep a sure outlook about his existence route.
“I will be succesful of't are living in regret,” he explained. “I tend to occupy that we're the sum complete of all of our experiences, correct kind and despicable. And if I'm going to evangelise that, then I indulge in to give up to that as properly.”
Restful, Charlie admitted he had some hesitation about delving into his addiction and its public repercussions for the documentary, as properly as his contemporary memoir The Guide of Sheen.
“There became as soon as within the originate, yeah,” he talked about. “As the reference to[director[directorAndrew] Renzi evolved, he talked about, ‘Watch, man, folk content about things available. Let's correct hear from you.’ So, that became as soon as piece of the intention to have confidence in each other.”
Within the discontinue, the Wall Avenue principal particular person described his mindset as, “If we're gonna occupy this, let's occupy it. Let's meet it lawful down Broadway.”
And though Charlie doesn’t peep his expose-all documentary and ebook as a risk to inspire others or glorify his past, he’s hopeful there in overall is a secondary profit to sharing his memoir.
“I'd luxuriate in to occupy that this will attain those that’re in identical pain,” he concluded, “and feel luxuriate in they're not by myself.”
Read on for more stars who were delivery about their addiction and sobriety.
—Reporting by Paul Costabile
AJ McLean
After the Backstreet Boys member relapsed in 2021, he popular he “bought sober again for the last time.”
“I'm sticking this one out your complete draw,” he told Folks in July 2025. “It's an on an ordinary foundation thing. Nevertheless I indulge in at last carried out what has been instructed amongst the sober neighborhood, and my existence has flipped in a sure draw.”
Whereas AJ acknowledged he’s “peaceable learning, peaceable rising,” he's now confident in who he’s.
“I've realized contemporary verbiage, equivalent to boundaries, never if truth be told had those,” he continued. “Now I indulge in those, which is a blessing. AJ is a member of a community. He’s a persona, but he doesn't clarify me as a particular person. Alexander James is who I am.”
Jason Biggs
In October 2018, the American Pie principal particular person launched he became as soon as one yr sober in a celebratory and encouraging Instagram post.
“I first tried to rep sober over 5 years within the past, when the weight of my obsession with booze and remedy became too heavy for me to home,” he wrote at the time. “Turns out this s–t is exhausting.”
He continued, “After some fits and begins, I’ve managed to connect collectively one yr of sobriety. I’m as happy with it as anything in my existence. As soon as you happen to’re struggling, know there’s abet. Don’t be ashamed. We can occupy this.”
Years later, he mirrored on his streak with addiction and the lengths he went to cowl the his warfare.
“I’m going to remedy and ‘working on things’ but meanwhile I’m leaving remedy, having correct had a correct kind session, and I’m going to the liquor store and buying a fifth of vodka, ingesting it and then driving dwelling,” he talked about on a March 2024 episode of his essential other Jenny Mollen's The complete Fails podcast. “I knew rep wasted adequate to the place I took myself out of the existence equation, took myself out of the level to, didn’t indulge in to connect in a approach that made me feel things.”
He added, “I had it figured out to a T. To not rep too drunk the place I couldn’t indulge in a conversation with you. I became as soon as replacing those bottles within the bar your complete time.”
Ashlyn Harris
The 2-time FIFA Females's World Cup champ has been delivery about her misuse of Adderall while battling injuries throughout her college soccer career.
“I became as soon as getting if truth be told carefully hooked on Adderall and misusing it,” she talked about on a 2025 episode of the Demand The total lot with Danielle Robay podcast. “I became as soon as taking it your complete time. I would proceed days without sleeping. It became as soon as wild. I felt luxuriate in I became as soon as gonna give myself a coronary heart attack. I became as soon as crushing it. I became as soon as snorting it. It became as soon as so problematic.”
Alternatively, within the course of her warfare, her college coach Anson Dorrance became as soon as there to strengthen her.
“It bought if truth be told, if truth be told sunless and I needed to create some important adjustments,” she explained, “and Anson would indulge in me read books. I began reading this ebook known as[[Man’s Search] for That draw and it's about suffering and reframing it and it changed my existence.”
Jax Taylor
The Valley principal particular person shared his many years-long battle with remedy in March 2025 after going to rehab.
“I am coming out that I'm an addict,” Jax shared throughout the March 4 episode of Bravo's Hot Mic podcast. “I indulge in substance points, primarily with cocaine. It’s exhausting to assert out loud.”
“I’ve been facing this on and off since I became as soon as 23 and now I’m forty five,” he continued. “There became as soon as cases the place I would pause doing it but then there were cases the place I’d proceed heavy on it.”
Jax moreover gave up ingesting, explaining, “I don’t primarily judge I indulge in an alcohol intention back, however the 2 proceed hand in hand. I will be succesful of’t occupy cocaine without ingesting. So, I correct gave up both. I’m proud to assert I’m 82, 83 days sober lawful now, which is the longest I’ve ever long past in my existence without either.”
Tom Holland
The Spider-Man: No Blueprint Dwelling principal particular person stopped ingesting alcohol in 2022 after feeling “enslaved” to the drink. “I became as soon as positively hooked on alcohol, not shying faraway from that the least bit,” Holland recalled on the On Cause with Jay Shetty podcast. “I judge that any person that has a beer each day has doubtlessly bought a shrimp bit little bit of a intention back.”
“And then you definately would correct attain that 2nd the place you're luxuriate in 'Wow, I shouldn't indulge in had that last beer,'” the actor continued. “And you wake up the next day and you indulge in got a horrible headache.”
Since making the draw in which of life change, Holland seen he “might perhaps well also sleep higher” and “address problems higher.”
“Things that will well proceed harmful on affirm that will well customarily affirm me off, I might perhaps well also rob up my drag,” he shared. “I had so worthy such higher psychological readability. I felt more healthy. I felt healthier.”
Alec Baldwin
The principal particular person of Hunt for Red October doesn’t customarily keep in touch to his sobriety streak, which began nearly forty years within the past.
“I don't content about this plenty,” he talked about throughout a Might maybe also simply 2024 podcast appearance. “I content about it on occasion when it makes sense. I'm 39 years sober. I bought sober Feb. 23, 1985.”
Talking about his existence after transferring from New York City to Los Angeles in 1983, Alec explained, “I had a white-sizzling intention back each day for 2 years. I judge I snorted a line of cocaine from here to Saturn. We took it help dwelling. I mean, cocaine became as soon as luxuriate in espresso help then. Everybody became as soon as doing all of it day long.”
And after quitting the drug, he quickly turned to alcohol—handiest to moreover stop that dependency.
This day, he relies on the metropolis around him.
“New York relaxes me,” he shared of his dwelling. “I stroll around and I peep aspects of it that I've never seen sooner than. I'll look for at a constructing and I'll proceed, 'My God, I never seen that about that constructing, those doors.' I indulge in lunches and espresso and my mates.”
Anne Hathaway
The Princess Diaries alum shared in April 2024 that she is more than 5 years sober. As she told the New York Events, “That feels luxuriate in a milestone to me.”
Her reasoning became as soon as certain. “I knew deep down it wasn't for me,” she shared. “And it correct felt so coarse to indulge in to assert, 'Nevertheless none?' Nevertheless none. As soon as you happen to're allergic to something or indulge in an anaphylactic response to something, you don't argue with it. So I ended arguing with it.”
And she's happy she made that resolution. “My personal expertise with it is that the total lot is more healthy,” she continued. “For me, it became as soon as wallowing gasoline. And I don't luxuriate in to wallow.”
Demi Moore
Whereas accepting the 2018 Girl of the Year Award by the Peggy Albrecht Friendly Home, a residential program for females getting higher from substance and alcohol abuse, Moore spoke about the “self-destructive route” that with regards to derailed her career.
“I occupy luxuriate in there's a defining moments in our lives that form who we’re and the direction we proceed and early in my career, I became as soon as spiraling down a route of real self-destruction and or not it will not be relevant what successes I had, I correct never felt correct kind adequate,” the principal particular person recalled. “I had fully no price for myself and this self-destructive route, it very rapidly introduced me to a real disaster level and it wasn't certain at the time the fair. Perhaps it became as soon as divine intervention.”
Moore, who sought remedy in 2012, thanked two unnamed folk she “barely knew” for turning in something of an ultimatum to her to flip her existence around. “Except I became as soon as ineffective, I higher display up,” she quipped, alongside with that she became as soon as given “a risk to redirect the direction of my existence sooner than I destroyed the total lot.”
“Clearly they seen more of me than I seen of myself,” Moore popular. “And I'm so grateful this skill that of without that chance, without their believing me, I wouldn't be standing here nowadays.”
Noah Cyrus
Cyrus shared in 2022 that she's been in restoration for her Xanax addiction since 2020. “It gave me so worthy structure within the time that I if truth be told wanted structure, this skill that of I didn't deserve to correct be sitting around and stirring in my brain,” she told Rolling Stone. “It gave me hope.”
The singer added, “After I felt that it became as soon as likely to silence things out for a 2nd and numb your pain, it became as soon as over.”
She talked about her mates at the time “more or much less cosigned” her drug utilize and “it correct more or much less becomes this sunless pit, bottomless pit.” Nevertheless, throughout the pandemic, Cyrus talked about she became as soon as noticing challenges and felt she wasn't emotionally level to. “I became as soon as totally nodding off and falling asleep,” she recalled. “And unable to address my head up or address my eyes delivery, this skill that of I became as soon as to this level long past.”
She at last sought abet and popular that “it took some time to rep on my indulge in two toes.”
Eminem
The “Lose Yourself” rapper mirrored on his prior prescription tablet abuse in his 2025 documentary Stans, noting an overdose and missing his daughter Hailie Jade's birthday event triggered a metamorphosis.
“I cried this skill that of it became as soon as luxuriate in, ‘Oh my god, I overlooked that,’” he talked about within the doc. “I kept announcing to myself, ‘Carry out you wish to f–king proceed over this again? Carry out you wish to miss out on the total lot? As soon as you happen to seemingly can’t occupy it to your self, you f–king pussy, at the least occupy it for them.’”
At last, channeling his vitality help into his tune helped the Oscar winner on his sobriety streak.
“It did something. It turned the mild on,” he explained. “I realized I’m not embarrassed anymore about [sobriety]. I began treating sobriety luxuriate in an unlimited vitality and I took pleasure within the truth that I became as soon as in a field to forestall.”
Dax Shepard
The Parenthood alum became as soon as sober for 16 years sooner than relapsing in 2020 by taking Vicodin after a motorbike accident.
“For the last eight weeks per chance, I don't if truth be told know…I'm on all of them day,” he talked about on his Armchair Professional podcast. “And I'm allowed to be on them at some dosage this skill that of I indulge in a prescription and then I'm moreover augmenting that.”
“And I hate it,” he continued. “And I'm lying to other folks. And I do know I indulge in to forestall. Nevertheless my tolerance is going up so rapidly that I'm now in a difficulty the place I'm taking, , eight 30s a day, and I do know that's an amount that's going to consequence in a fairly despicable withdrawal. And I originate up getting if truth be told timid, and I'm starting up to feel if truth be told lonely. And I correct indulge in this mammoth secret.”
Jamie Lee Curtis
In 2018, the Halloween principal particular person bought very candid about her 10-yr addiction to opiates, which began within the unhurried '80s after a minor plastic surgical draw “for my hereditary puffy eyes.” The reslt became as soon as a prescription that changed her existence. “I had a 10-yr bolt, stealing, conniving,” she told Folks. “Nobody knew. Nobody.”
When her sister visited her within the summer of 1998 and introduced alongside prescribed painkillers for a rib break, Curtis talked about she hit her rock backside. “I knew she had them in her suitcase in our guest room closet,” she told the publication, crying at the memory. “I customarily took all her opiates. When she became as soon as leaving I knew she would pack her suitcase and rep her tablets missing. I knew I needed to acknowledge to her what I had carried out, and so I wrote her a demonstrate and left it on her suitcase. I got here dwelling that day, and he or she attach her fingers around me and told me she cherished me and he or she became as soon as passionate about me and he or she became as soon as unwilling to peep me abolish myself.”
She attended her first assembly on Feb. 3, 1999, the identical day she revealed her warfare to her filmmaker husband Christopher Visitor. “He became as soon as incredulous that he'd never seen,” Curtis talked about, alongside with that she's been sober ever since.
Drew Barrymore
Barrymore, who beforehand went to rehab for alcohol and drug addiction, shared in 2021 that she became as soon as marking a colossal milestone in her streak. “I'm correct going to assert something for the first time in a actually long time: I indulge in not had a drink of alcohol in two and a half of years,” she talked about on CBS Mornings. “And it became as soon as something that I realized correct didn’t motivate me in my existence.”
She added, “It's so comical. After we level to ourselves and our truths and the things we've labored so exhausting for, it's so freeing and inclined all at the identical time.”
Barrymore later explained to the Los Angeles Events that she doesn't utilize the “sober” imprint this skill that of she doesn't desire folk to evaluate she's “some ideal Puritan.”
“I kept pondering, ‘I'll grasp this. I'll resolve it out,'” she talked about in 2023. “And at last, I correct realized: ‘You've never mastered this, and you never will.'”
Bradley Cooper
The A Star Is Born actor struggled with a cocaine addiction throughout the early aughts sooner than pal Will Arnett stepped in and confronted him out about his behavior.
“That became as soon as the first time I ever realized I had a intention back with remedy and alcohol,” Cooper recalled throughout a 2022 appearance on the Smartless podcast. “I'll correct never neglect it.”
Crediting Arnett as “the fair” he went sober, Cooper added, “He took that risk of having a exhausting conversation with me that attach me on a route of deciding to alter my existence.”
Brad Pitt
The Fight Club principal particular person spent years struggling with alcohol sooner than Cooper helped him rep sober. “I bought sober due to this man,” he told the viewers at the 2020 Nationwide Board of Evaluate Annual Awards after Cooper presented him with a trophy. “And each day's been happier ever since.”
Ryan Phillippe
In September 2023, the Merciless Intentions alum shared on Instagram that this became as soon as “the longest I've long past since I became as soon as a teen without some more or much less nicotine or marijuana in my machine (among other things).”
“Feeling thankful for the liberty that incorporates breaking addictions and dependency on substance,” he added. “Sobriety, readability, and spiritual connectedness feels real correct kind.”
Demi Lovato
After publicly celebrating six years of sobriety on tour in 2018, the singer disturbed followers later that very same yr with the launch of the confessional single “Sober,” which revealed that she had relapsed.
“Mama, I'm so sorry I'm not sober anymore / And Daddy please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor / To folk who never left me / We've been down this boulevard sooner than I'm so sorry, I'm not sober anymore,” she sang.
A month later, Lovato became as soon as hospitalized for a cease to-lethal overdose.
“I indulge in always been transparent about my streak with addiction,” she wrote on Instagram two weeks later. “What I've learned is that this illness will not be something that disappears or fades with time. It’s something I must proceed to beat and indulge in not carried out yet…I now need time to heal and level of curiosity on my sobriety and boulevard to restoration. The admire you indulge in all confirmed me obtained’t ever be forgotten and I look for forward to the day the place I will be succesful of reveal I got here out on the opposite side. I will address struggling with.”
Jada Pinkett Smith
In 2018, she recalled battling her addictions to sex and alcohol. “My variety of addictions soar. They soar around. After I became as soon as younger, I positively judge I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that the total lot might perhaps well be mounted by sex,” she talked about, sooner than sharing about the time she realized she'd developed a troubling ingesting intention back.
“I undergo in mind reaching a rock backside that time I became as soon as within the home on my indulge in and I had those two bottles of wine and became as soon as going for the third bottle,” she talked about. “And I became as soon as luxuriate in, ‘Now prolong. You're within the this home by your self going onto your third bottle of wine? You’ve got got a intention back.'”
“So I went cold turkey. That's the object about me: I will be succesful of proceed cold turkey. I am a binger, and I always indulge in to peep myself and I will be succesful of correct rep hooked in to things,” she continued. “It's not what you're doing however the model you're with it. Why you're doing it. It's the behavior that's connected to it this skill that of whenever you would luxuriate in to indulge in moderately a pair of sex, that's colossal, but why are you having all that sex? That's what you've bought to head looking out for at.”
AJ Mclean
The Backstreet Boys member tried remedy for the first time sooner than filming the tune video for 2000's “The Name,” telling Just Morning America years later that he “became as soon as off the partitions” throughout the shoot. He bought sober in 2021 and seen moderately a pair of sure advantages correct one yr later, alongside with shedding 32 pounds in seven months by cutting out alcohol and hasty food.
“Drinking precipitated weight prevail in,” he told This day in September 2022, “on the opposite hand it moreover weighed down my psychological affirm.”
Bow Wow
After the sudden loss of life of Mac Miller, the rapper—born Shad Moss—took to Twitter to let his followers know that he'd as soon as struggled with a cough syrup addiction.
“To the childhood- Cease with these tiring ass remedy,” he began his sequence of tweets. “Im going to let something out. When me and Omarion labored on FACE OFF album. I became as soon as high off lean each day! When yall seen me on BET going off on Torae i became as soon as high off lean. My perspective the total lot changed. My followers began to…Switch on me my family too. I never promoted lean in my songs. The complete time i became as soon as on the UCP tour with Chris [[Brown]I WAS SIPPING 4's atleast 7 cases a day. I became as soon as addicted till our display in Cincinnati.. i got here off stg and handed out wakened within the properly being facility i became as soon as having withdraws.”
“I never felt a pain luxuriate in that ever,” Bow Wow continued. “It became as soon as summer but i became as soon as walking spherical with 3 hoodies on this skill that of i became as soon as so cold. I overlooked the chicago display of that tour baltimore display BECAUSE I WAS F–KING HIGH AND SICK!!!! that s–t will not be cool and i became as soon as doing it to be cool! Kick that s–t! Be a correct kind son or daughter. Be the supreme you. Ima originate up being more vocal. We gotta attach the childhood from going out early. Fogeys peep your childhood. Demonstrate to them. We desire yall to are living man. I nearly died f–king with syrup.”
“To at the 2nd im affected my stomach will…Never be the identical and it hasnt been. DRUG FREE IS THE WAY TO BE! smarten up tighten up out here,” he told his followers. “We cant lose no more of you. Now not one! I if truth be told luxuriate in each yall. The young artist your complete childhood world huge.. dont prepare a trend. Spoil the cycle. PEACE.”
Lily Allen
With the twin releases of her fourth studio album No Disgrace and memoir My Thoughts Exactly, the singer spent worthy of 2018 getting brutally honest about the tip of her addition problems. In keeping with Allen, she became as soon as abusing cocaine and ingesting to the level of being “parisitically drunk. Indirectly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin staged an intervention after she unintentionally headbutted Orlando Bloom at Kate Hudson's Halloween event and knocked herself out.
She told The Guardian, “Nothing regarded to realize or fulfill me. I undergo in mind waking up one morning in those sunless days pondering, ‘Perhaps it's time for heroin, this skill that of nothing else is working.'”
Dennis Quaid
The Parent Trap actor battled a cocaine addiction at some level of the '80s that despatched him to rehab in 1990. As he later explained on This day, he grew up within the '60s and '70s when “there became as soon as a totally numerous perspective” in direction of the drug.
“It became as soon as even in some movie budgets. I became as soon as customarily doing cocaine fairly worthy each day throughout the '80s,” he admitted in 2018. “I spent many, many an evening screaming at God to 'Please rob this faraway from me and I'll never occupy it again, affirm off I've handiest bought an hour sooner than I should always be at work.' Then at 4 o'clock within the afternoon I'd proceed, 'Oh it's not so despicable.'”
“I had what I name a white mild expertise the place I seen myself either ineffective or shedding the total lot that supposed anything to me,” he continued. He needed to take a seat down down then-fiancée Meg Ryan and level to what became as soon as occurring. Then, he sought abet. “That became as soon as the discontinue of the admire affair with me and cocaine.”
Ryan Lochte
After an incident in Newport Sea scamper the place the Olympic swimmer tried to kick in his indulge in hotel room door, Lochte made the resolution to head looking out for remedy in 2018. “Ryan has been battling from alcohol addiction for a selection of years and sadly it has turn into a destructive sample for him,” his score told E! Data in a observation. “He has acknowledged that he needs official support to beat his intention back and should always be getting abet right away.”
“Ryan is conscious of that conquering this disease now might perhaps well be a must for him to manual clear of making future unhappy choices, to be the supreme husband and father he’ll be, and if he desires to end his purpose to approach help to dominance within the pool in his fifth Olympics in Tokyo in 2020,” the observation concluded.
Jason Ritter
Despite the truth that the Parenthood alum is conscious of that “one among the things that you're not presupposed to occupy is rep sober for any person else,” his relationship with now-essential other Melanie Lynskey became as soon as a predominant fair that led him to swearing off alcohol.
“At a level, I knew how amazing she became as soon as and I notion she might perhaps well be mighty for any person that deserved her,” he explained throughout a March 2023 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Picture, “and I didn't feel luxuriate in I became as soon as that particular person. I felt a shrimp bit bit too loopy.”
Alternatively, as Ritter popular to E! Data, he now sees that sobriety is finally a personal preference.
“It became as soon as much less difficult for me to assert that I'm doing it for her this skill that of, at that time, I didn't feel luxuriate in I became as soon as variety of price worthy,” he recalled of the early days of their relationship. “I didn't care as worthy about hurting myself as I did about hurting her. So, first and important it became as soon as much less difficult for me to assert, 'I'm doing this for her.' And now, I'm doing it for myself.”
Brantley Gilbert
The country principal particular person has been sober for nearly a decade, on the opposite hand it became as soon as a exhausting-fought boulevard getting there. His addiction to alcohol and pain tablets began quickly after graduating from high college and didn't abate when his career began to rob off. He kept a dim leather computer procure stuffed with bottles of Jagermeister or vodka “at arm's attain the least bit cases,” he told beforehand revealed to Folks, alongside with that at some level of the day, “each hour and a half of to 2 hours it'd be time to rep two or three correct kind pulls on the bottle. And each three or four hours it's time for a tablet or two.”
And it had no occupy on his success. “It wasn't luxuriate in I became as soon as stumbling around all day,” he admitted. “I became as soon as fully functioning — I wrote more songs then than I occupy now. That became as soon as the feared piece.”
In unhurried 2011, he became as soon as hospitalized with pancreatitis and became as soon as told that if he didn't pause ingesting, he wouldn't peep his next birthday. “I peaceable attach it off and became as soon as trying to sluggish down on my indulge in, luxuriate in, 'All lawful I'm handiest gonna let myself rob two tablets nowadays. I'm handiest gonna drink this worthy of my bottle and create a designate on the bottle,'” he recalled. “And it would work a pair days—and then any person throws a event.”
He at last sought abet, coming into rehab on Dec. 18, 2011. “I bought to the level the place I knew it became as soon as something I couldn't occupy on my indulge in,” Gilbert talked about. “Pissed me off to no discontinue and embarrassed me. I'm a fairly exact-willed particular person but that became as soon as the one thing in my existence that I couldn't rep to stick.”
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