HAPPY 60TH

Sober Charlie Sheen Confesses He Still Gets ‘Shame Shivers’ From Tabloid Fixture Past

The ‘Two and a Half Men’ star also revealed what was behind that wild “tiger blood” interview.

Actor Charlie Sheen, celebrating his 60th birthday on Wednesday, has been sober for eight years but still struggles with forgiving himself, the former tabloid fixture revealed in an interview with People magazine. The Wall Street star spiraled deep into drug and alcohol addiction in his 40s, leading to several scandals and two very ugly public divorces, first from Denise Richards in 2006 and then from Brooke Mueller in 2011. Also in 2011, he was fired from his hit show Two and a Half Men, and then gave an interview to 20/20 in which he claimed to have “tiger blood” in his veins. Now, Sheen—who got sober in 2017 after several stints in rehab—is publishing a memoir and releasing a two-part Netflix documentary about his life. In his memoir, set to be released this month, he attributes that infamous tiger blood outburst to a testosterone cream he was using that made him a “raving lunatic.” “Forgiveness is still an evolving thing,” he told People. “I still get what I call the ‘shame shivers.’ These are the moments that hit me, of the heinous memories and choices and consequences. They’re getting farther in between, so I guess that’s progress.”