Charlie Sheen has lived enough tabloid plotlines to fill a streaming slate—but his latest headline lands differently because it isn’t about a party, a rant, or a meltdown. It’s about a phone call from the past that still stings: the day his father, Martin Sheen, turned him in to authorities in 1998—a move Charlie now calls the “biggest betrayal” of his life, even while admitting he eventually saw it as love.
That emotional whiplash—betrayal that later looks like rescue—is the engine of the new press run around Sheen’s memoir, The Book of Sheen, and the two-part Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen. And it’s also why this story feels like peak Hollywood irony: the man famous for doing everything loudly is now revisiting the moment when someone else forced his hand—publicly, painfully, and (in his words) against his will.
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