Charlie Sheen Speaks Openly About His HIV Diagnosis - Extended Interview | Good Morning Britain

Charlie you're alive I was going good and kicking and it feels great how have you found the public generally since the story of you having HIV came out and although it's scandal that I'm fell because of it I thought people would you know we always write the story that's not true and I'm about a hundred percent writing the story that doesn't happen ever and I thought there'd be you know rejected handshakes or know people are hugging and compassionate and supportive and awesome and and they'll pull me aside and thank me for for you know helping their brother or their mother or their father or sister you know that I told a story they didn't have the courage to tell themselves and now they feel like they're not alone and that's like you can't put a price tag on that you know yeah I'm actually five months older and it'll be our viewers watching us going really and I feel bad about that because I might have no right to look as good you're so sweet you're so sweet up but you gotta give yourself a little more credit I'm never saying you're handsome man and you look great and you make oh thank you thank you I'm a little jet-lagged on this trip um how you feeling how I feel I feel really good I don't do you know a bunch of drugs anymore um I drink a little bit but I'm more of a sipper than a chugger you know um and I just uh you know I get this opportunity now to do something I guess you know very heroic um and and and but but but again I do want people to talk about my work again in the future uh but if if my work if my lot right now is to uh to lead this charge uh that's okay someone has to right someone has a design our II powerful important is somebody with your profile Thank You ton of this the moment that you heard in 2011 right five years ago now that you were HIV positive for anybody yeah that is a pretty cataclysmic moment in my life horrible it's horrible because the first thing you think about is he's like how did it happen where did it happen and you start going back through your mind like who was involved with the thing and and most people that aren't positive can't speak to they can't pinpoint that exact moment they can't do it and I'm um you know I thought I was dying when I went to the hospital you know and then spinal tap and the thing and then it was revealed um and then you know I was kind of like it was that was a quiet moment it was uh it was like I just I had to just sit with it for a second looked over at mom and she was like you you know you've gotten through harder times like you sure so we know I um but then a lot of people do go to the hospital and don't don't come home and I get that I get to come home and have a great life today and it's the technology and the medicine is is is amazing in a strange way do you feel lucky did it put the brakes on a certain lifestyle that you were leading which perhaps would have ended in a far worse well yeah yeah I I'm I feel very lucky I have a ton of gratitude that I like that I can still tell the rest of the story and and it not being told for me or about me you know there have been so many stories by Charlie in the parting years and since this revelation came out a lot of it very negative a lot of people saying you were very responsible you were wildly promiscuous you did loads of drugs drank yourself into nearly an early grave and so on when you look back on your own your own life then how self critically you are very very I did the question I can't answer to myself my younger self my current cell my future self I when I say dude what were you trying to prove and I don't have an answer for that I you know often times though when you become the the main character in your own story which is your life lived it out you know publicly um it there's almost as this bizarre sense of pressure to to perpetuate that mythology because it at some point you start reading stuff about yourself and it's mythical like wait a minute we couldn't have survived all that um and the stuff that I did and I'm regretful about I own I own it doesn't mean I'm proud of it um do you find do you feel guilty towards some of the women that caught up in this there is and no um the ones that that that still have my back are you know we're never there for the for the wrong reasons the ones that that were there to to to you know for their own gain their own falling um they they're not a part of my journey anymore and and that's you know they wanted to trade my allegiance my friendship um for that I I hope they feel like they got their money's worth you said in a newspaper interview here that you'd only had unprotected sex a couple of times and it was met with a lot of incredulity yeah believe that right was that an honest it was honorable service yeah oh yeah yeah and but then it's like those couple times that I didn't that who knows is that the moment that the thing happened I don't know um but it's what people need to focus on a need to understand is as absolute truth is that no one I've infected no one you know there's no one coming at me saying well now you know you know it's not this has not happened um regardless of what they say I you know i I've I'd four years to create fiction for a living um so I I recognize it when it shows up you know your father great man Martin Sheen I've interviewed him several times loves you dearly likewise very caring my boys is your hero yeah how did he react to this because he's used to your scrapes and he had a few himself when he was young but but to hear that his son that he loves his HIV positive must have been a big moment for him we got into a debate one night and he was talking to me not a a and all stop you know um and he kept talking about the disease of alcoholism of light I hadn't told him yet I said hey pop you want to hear about our real frickin disease and that's when I told him well and he's never brought of a gun oh yeah he was so there was that you could hear the universe just blink you could hear everything pause and he just oh wow ah geez kid uh-oh whatever you need from me Isis I'll jump on my fastest horse that's what he said was he jump on my fastest horse I was like cope was he remotely critical was he judgmental of you know no he was nothing but supportive and I kid it's funny I hang out my parents house and really close these days and I can always tell there's something in the air they want to talk about but they don't I don't know what's going on and and and it's usually as I'm leaving all right gotta go uh pick up the girls in the morning or go to this and go to then like so Charlie and I know it's coming right um but then he was very respectful and very um weird if friends and it's really cherish her our relationship it's it's uh he kind of wanted to ask those next five questions well how who what where well you know but he didn't um and he just said you know this is this is your journey and again it's uh whatever support he can deliver personally or or or if he knows a guy you know he he's there for it it's pretty it's fully cool you lived with this knowledge for a few years again yeah and you were paying people to keep quiet it was all getting her out of control and he could feel an overwhelming inevitability yeah it was horrible here and he decided to go public that moment for you when you went public that way it was liberating in the moment um and I thought he would completely curtail and and shut down all of the all the skullduggery tomfoolery um and it actually yet accelerated it was like a dumped ass on the fire um so we got through that but I I just walked away from it knowing oh jeez this is incredible because I don't I don't have to you know like every knock on the door the other shoe is not going to fall suddenly um it just it just made everything okay again and I was fine with it um I've dealt with whatever repercussions or responsibilities to the best of my ability you can't you can't give someone a workbook you can't say okay if you say this is going to happen there's no yes it is so spontaneous and and and random that you just kind of have to find the next stepping stone through each moment you have this phrase before we knew about it was dying is for amateurs obviously it yeah I'm joke you phrase yeah no you had to face your own mortality out all this yeah when you did that what did you decide to do about the way you viewed life ah just take a take a take a moment and take pause and to just sort of take some inventory and really reflect on you know how much of this will I allow to be a curse or blessing or both or and and and it's there's this weird thing I always know that I'm gonna be okay it's others don't worry about you know I mean my loved ones like children um and so how can i how can I serve them I never I just I'm always like at the end of the list table tonight that I'm concerned about right okay to go five children yeah are they the people that you feel most regretful about in terms of of guilt yes yes however I really kind of look to what's going on right now and and I can't change it and I can't undo things that had and have affected them because you can you better fall I can do it from exactly I don't stand for it a hundred percent yeah how do you think that changes a dad I don't think I've changed the Daniel just of just in my in my availability and and the condition I show up in and there's a new thing that I that I've done I mean I should have learned this thousand years ago that the morning belongs to the night before right the morning belongs to the night before so yeah I may want to hang out with some buddies or like watch a movie at 3:00 in the morning but then if I'm going to get up at 5:00 picking my kids up and deliver them safely to school through canyons and everything else they deserve the version of me that that that that that ensures that you know and that's not fine it's fine it's exciting I haven't seen you this well oh you're very kind of I got a long time I apologize um it is ironic that you look so what he seems so well given that you've been facing such a massive health crisis thank you oh you're very kind I am it's uh it's sort of it's it's realized me I don't know how else to describe it um and I'm blessed I have this great big crazy awesome life um if you like not a second so we've had about a thousand yeah yeah I feel like it's a second chapter it is it is in the life of it is it is yeah you know I'm gonna spend the next 40 or 50 years whatever I'm unlearning everything I thought I knew and that's okay it's about being human you know if you like being in the UK I mean this isn't incredible it's incredible it feels like we've been here for are there an hour or a month no the reception has been nothing but lovely has been it just it's it's nothing but love and compassion you know in the middle of your trip obviously we have this appalling shooting of a member of parliament here yeah you heard about this on yeah radio thing I did why don't we actually what you had I was saddened and I didn't really care about the whole thing about in or out you know in the EU or out is that that's all debate right um and I just looked at this woman and then I was it's very bizarre because the reports that we were where she was um critical condition and hanging on by a thread and then I said wait a minute she has shot and stabbed and noon with a head injury and a heart I turned a coup but I said she's not gonna make it she's not gonna make it and then I saw the news story that Becky knows that Joe Cox had done and I thought so we're driving in the next venue and I'm tryna I'm trying to care about things that I don't care about they're not important we cracked the the sunroof and in the sky cry for a minute for her it was just like it was a trip and and then I would I would love someone that is a proponent of owning this you know weapons and Second Amendment all I grab to look her children in the eyes and say yes this it's it's it's okay it's you you you you should agree with with with everything that's happened you can't do that to a child because the mom mom leaves and then doesn't come home one day why how do you explain that to a child well there were three stories in the space of a week there was a young female singer who was on the voice in America it was shot really executed right during a meet-and-greet or some crazed fan we then have this appalling my shoes know anyone yeah the at the gay nightclub Joe Cox here obviously we don't have how much they were on problem a big evidence do we need right guns what is your view of guns they belong in a battlefield and if you've got a hunt to get the you know the animal to populate with all that [ __ ] works that's fine i i i won't hunt an animal until it carries a weapon doesn't seem fair um it's it's as I sent out there you know our president said you know to do nothing is a decision in itself I'm just thinking you can't you can't speak to the families of the victims you can't present an argument for it because it's wrong if I get shot tonight for saying that oh well you know what is the future for you career-wise if indeed I have a phone coming out right in September it's a 911 film we don't have a title yet spire to me either the North Tower or tower one it's about it's a true story on 9/11 the first 9/11 story from the inside and it's about five people in an elevator on the day and it is it's it's intense are you enjoying getting to work laminate well I'd like us to all stop talking about you your sex life your party and go back to talking about Charlie Sheen the airs still dogging their stop talking it's fine um I don't you know people I think are wrong they're they're they're happy when I show up and they're sad when I leave that's a pretty cool combination you don't I mean that's pretty cool but they they won't talk about my work again um and everything that all the bits and bobs that come along with it you know I mean Charlie it's great to see it's a pleasure thanks few times and always thank you you

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Length: 16min 29sec (989 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 20 2016