Charlie Sheen Celebrates 6 Years Of Sobriety: ‘Proud Of The Choices I’ve Made’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Charlie Sheen is sharing the moment he decided to get sober.
“Next month I’ll be six years sober,” he told PEOPLE. “I have a very consistent lifestyle now. It’s all about single dad stuff, and raising my 14-year-old twin boys Max and Bob.”
Sheen opened up about the reason he decided to stop drinking, pointing to his daughters, Sami, 19, and Lola, 18.
“One morning I’d forgotten my daughter had an appointment I’d promised to drive her to, and I’d already had a couple of pops that day,” the actor said. “So I had to call my friend Tony to take us. We got her there on time, but it broke my heart because she was in the backseat and I could just tell she was thinking, ‘Why isn’t dad driving?’ So I got home and sat with that for the rest of the day. And the next morning I just stopped.”
He decided to take sobriety one month at a time and quickly realized “that this was the side I needed to be on. I couldn’t be in denial about it anymore.”
“I’m proud of the choices that I’ve made and the changes I’ve made to live a life today that will never look like that mess,” he said, referring to his past. “That was some alien version of myself.”
Movieguide® previously reported on the impact Sheen’s sobriety has had on his father, actor Martin Sheen:
Hollywood veteran Martin Sheen, known for the series WEST WING, said that he is proud of his son and fellow actor Charlie Sheen for his sobriety.
“I adore him,” the 80-year-old actor told PEOPLE. “I’ve always, always adored him. His recovery and his life is a miracle and he’s an extraordinary man.”
Martin spoke of his son during a press conference for his movie, 12 MIGHTY ORPHANS.
“We went through as you, as everyone knows I suppose, some very difficult times when he was out there,” Martin said of his 55-year-old son. “He’s come back – thank heaven – and he’s healthy and he’s working on a book now.”
Now that he’s sober, Sheen is also ready to return to the screen in BOOKIE, a TV show created by TWO AND A HALF MEN creator Chuck Lorre. The two publicly feuded after Lorre shut down production on TWO AND A HALF MEN when Sheen entered rehab.
“Chuck reached out, he said, ‘Hey, it’s time to bury the hatchet. It’s time for us to give each other a hug. And remember the great stuff that we did together,’” the actor shared. “Because we made a lot of people happy for a long time, and we left some really solid work behind us.”
Lorre also spoke about the reunion, telling Variety they were both “grateful to be past it.”
“Here we are, so many years later. And there was a lot of gratitude,” he said. “I think it was warm. People said it must have been healing and you know, it was. It was wonderful to not just give the man a hug. We worked together and we had a blast. It was very reminiscent of those wonderful eight years where we had a lot of fun making a show that we worked hard on and we were proud of.”
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