Seasoned actor Charlie Sheen talked about his road to sobriety and credited fatherhood for helping him through the journey.
Emmy-nominated actor Charlie Sheen, who is set to release his memoir ‘The Book of Sheen’, recently sat down with David Duchovny for an interview to talk more about the process behind his book and his road to sobriety, starting eight years ago.
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“It turned into just an interesting daily grind of just sudden responsibility and, you know, having to answer the call, and it was amazing,” the father of five said, adding that once he ‘finally put down the bottle’, his children started coming back to his home.
“I’m a good guy,” Sheen added. “Good guys sometimes do some bad things, but the only way to stay a good guy is to own that and move forward.”
Notably, the ‘Two and a Half Men’ alum has also written about his alcohol addiction and sobriety in detail in his book, revealing that it was a December 2017 incident with his daughter Sami which led him to the decision.
According to Sheen, he had promised his daughter a drop-off at her appointment and, therefore, had decided not to drink that day. But he forgot and already downed three whiskey-laced coffees, not being able to get behind the wheel. So he got a friend of his to drive them to Sami’s appointment.
“Sam was very quiet. I didn’t need to be clairvoyant to know exactly what she was thinking,” he recalled, admitting that it was the ‘only one thing that felt worse than betraying myself, and that was failing my children’.
“I knew exactly what had to be done. Sam wasn’t my final straw; she was my first harvest,” concluded Sheen, who has since been sober.