Charlie Sheen clarifies what he meant when he said he’s 'had sex with men'
In his tell-all Netflix documentary released last month, prolific womaniser Charlie Sheen blindsided fans by revealing he'd enjoyed x-rated encounters with members of the same sex.
The former Two and a Half Men frontman previously proved to be an open book when it came to his relationships with women, having been married three times, and fathering five children.
As well as welcoming a daughter, Cassandra, with his high-school girlfriend Paula Profit, 60-year-old Sheen shares two girls, Sami, 21, and Lola, 20, with ex-wife Denise Richards, to whom he was married between 2002 and 2006.
His first marriage was to Donna Peele between 1995 and 1996, though the couple didn't welcome any children together. From his third marriage to Brooke Mueller, which lasted from 2008 to 2011, he welcomed twin sons, Bob and Max, 16.
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As we say, though, whilst making latest TV appearance last month, the Hollywood veteran revealed he'd discovered 'the other side of the menu' in his younger years, and had enjoyed sexual encounters with men.
Following confusion, however, Sheen spoke out on his sexuality once again last week, reiterating to listeners of the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast exactly what he means by having experienced 'sex with men'.
"When people say 'sex with men', you immediately think of, like, butt sex," he began on Wednesday (29 Oct). "Sorry to be graphic, but that's kind of, like, where the mind goes, right? And it wasn't that."
Sheen went on to clarify: "So, I don't want to be, like, 'Okay, I did this thing, but this and that part of it didn’t happen', but it didn't. You know what I'm saying?" He continued: "And so, I don't know that that matters, but that's the only part of it that I'm like - it wasn't full fledged man.
"It was that s**t, like, you'll experiment with in college. You know?"
He added: "I never went to college, so, maybe that explains it? But it's not a shame thing. It's just kind of, like, 'Huh, [sex with men] is a bit of a broad category'."
In the hotly-debated doc, the actor went on to admit that opening up about his sexuality was 'f*****g liberating', adding: "It’s like, a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A f*****g piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me.
"I’m not going to run from my past, or let it own me."
Sheen continued: "So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f*****g fun, and life goes on. Look at the state of the f*****g world.
"The other side of that menu really f*****g matters? If someone doesn’t want to hire me because 'He did all that s**t'?
"Whatever, didn’t want to work with you anyway."
Rhianna Benson