Sheen is HIV-positive: Has paid millions to get people to keep quiet – VG

TV star Charlie Sheen (50) was diagnosed four years ago. – There were three difficult letters to absorb, he said.

There are a few years ago he was the globe’s highest paid TV star in “Two and a Half Men,” but when Charlie Sheen now come forward and speak that he is HIV-positive, so it is a novelty that goes around the world.

Sheen showed up on live breakfast TV in the United States at. 13 Norwegian time today, ie at. 07 local time, smiling but serious embossed – and wearing a suit and tie. VG followed the TV broadcast from the start.

MAJOR MARKED: Charlie Sheen.

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In conversation with program host Matt Lauer on NBC’s ” Today Show “elaborates Sheen news that has spread like wildfire almost one day before he announced it.

Headache and sweat

Sheen started by thanking the producers behind “Today Show” and said that they’ve been fantastic – until he explained that he has lived with the diagnosis in four years.

– I had insane headache and sweating in bed, several nights in a row. I thought I had a brain tumor. But these things happen. There were three letters difficult to absorb. A turning point in life, says 50-year-old about the diagnosis he received after a spinal cord test.

– Compassion means everything to me, says Sheen and explains that he only has confided to friends he trusts .

Have had to pay

He says that he has been betrayed by people he had confidence, and that he has paid millions of dollars for some of them to prevent them from speaking about it in public.

– This is money they have taken from my children, he said.

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Sheen says he chooses to come forward now to avoid being further squeezed for money.

– My goal with say this, not having to be afraid of these people forward. Today I have set myself free from prison I’ve lived in. I’m not going to pay any more.

The diagnosis came in the wake of Sheen’s many collapses around 2011.

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Lauer asks if it is true that Sheen had a prostitute visiting and that she went into the bathroom after intercourse, took a picture of his medicine and then threatened to sell the picture?

– Yes, it is true, answer Sheen.

– Have informed all

Sheen claims he has told all sexual partners about the virus.

– I can not possibly have transmitted the virus to someone else. Impossible.

TV star hopes to help others stand openly.

– I have a responsibility to improve myself and help others. And hopefully with what we are doing today, other stand up and say “Thank you, Charlie. Thank you kicked the door. “

Sheen says he does not know how he got the infection.

– I was so depressed, took too much drugs and alcohol. It was my fault.

frank: Charlie Sheen claims he has been pressured for money.

Photo: Grab / NBC

– He does not have AIDS

Program Host Matt Lauer tells Sheen and TV viewers that it flows with the support of actor via social media.

– Thank you, I hope to be able to surf on a wave of support, says a stirred Sheen.

Sheen’s doctor Robert Huizenga also appears in the program gradually. He says Sheen will not get shortened life due to the virus.

– Charlie has not AIDS, says the doctor and says that Sheen takes four pills every day.

– Individuals who are optimally handled as in the case of Charlie, who uses contraception, can very, very rarely infect others, says the doctor.

Intense day

Already Monday night it leaked out that the star must have lived with the virus in recent years, and that he now for the first time would inaugurate the outside world in secret. NBC even revealed not in advance what the conversation would be about, but wrote that Sheen would come with “a very personal disclosure.”

SIGNATURE ROLE: fV: Charlie Sheen, Angus T. Jones and Jon Cryer with the trophy “Two and a Half Men” won the People’s Choice Awards a few years back.

Photo: Chris Pizzello , Ap

In the hours before the television interview slid US media speculate hefty. Not least asked many how long Sheen has known he is HIV-positive, and if he has had sex with others without telling them about the virus. It discusses whether he can be held legally responsible if he has failed to inform partners that he has HIV.

Pending themselves lawsuits

Sheen himself says in the interview that he is more relieved than he had thought he would be that the secret is now out. He assures that he has never dropped to take your medicine.

– Maybe freedom I feel now, means that I can stop drinking, says Sheen.

Asked whether he fears lawsuits from former sexual partners, he replied:

– Yes, I’m quite sure will. Absolutely sure. But I can just sit here and tell the truth.

2013: Sheen at movie premiere in Hollywood.

Photo: Fred Prouse , Reuters

Hoping for forgiveness – and cure

Sheen says he hopes for forgiveness and support.

– I’ve read so much garbage the last couple of days that I have spread the virus deliberately. Nothing is farther from the truth.

He hopes to be able to contribute in the efforts to find a cure.

– If there is one man who would get this virus, which can help to find a cure, it’s me, says Sheen.

Asked whether he believes this could damage his career, responds Sheen him to survive – he has two movies and several shows on time.

– People who have known that I shall stand up, still contracted with me. I am a survivor and has experienced being both rich and poor, unemployed and employed.

Supports

One who however is quick to show their support, actress Heather Locklear (54), longstanding friend of Sheen.

“ This hurts my heart. I pray for Charlie and his family , “writes TV star on Instagram under a picture of himself and Sheen.

Ex-Wife: Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen in 2003.
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Photo: Paul Skipper , Ap

Wives and pornstars

One of Sheen’s freshest eksflammer, porn actress Bree Olson (29), has tweeted about it to be tested in the wake of the revelation she should have been notified recently. She is not infected.

“ It’s so stressful “, she writes about the need to wait for the result.

Sheen has the last five years been linked with a number of lesser-known women, but until that time he had three marriages and more famous women behind them.

He was divorced from model Donna Peele (45) in 1996 and later married actress Denise Richards (44). Marriage ended in 2006 – after four very turbulent year. They have two children together – Richards was pregnant with number two when she left her husband.

ex-wife Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen in 2009.
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In 2008, he married up again with actress Brooke Mueller (38), but also it was a very stormy affair with comprehensive substance abuse among both parties and repeated public laundry sinks. The couple managed to get twins together before they went their own way in 2011.

Sheen claims that both wives have known about the HIV diagnosis. He should have asked Mueller tested just after he got the discouraging message.

Sheen also has a daughter of 30 years of school sweetheart Paula Spaert – and in 2013 was one delighted Sheen grandfather.

– I’ve told my oldest daughter about the diagnosis. It was hard for her, but she’s as tough as his father. She handled it like a rock star, says Sheen.

Forbidden

In Sheen’s home state California, it is illegal to infect anyone with STDs intentionally. Sheen himself claims mentioned that he has told all sexual partners about the virus, and that he may have infected anyone.

– In a potential case must prosecutors prove that Sheen used HIV virus as a weapon, says jusekspert health, Scott Burris, to People and adds that in some other US states, it is illegal to have sex without telling about the virus even if you use a condom.

COLLEAGUES: Charlie Sheen and “Scary Movie” -motspiller Lindsay Lohan in 2013.

Photo: Fred Prouse , Reuters

– Will lose any action

Family Law Attorney Susan Moss says the magazine that Sheen could be sued for millions of dollars from their exes, even if it becomes clear that he has not infected them with HIV.

– I can only imagine the emotional strain it is to find out that a man had unprotected sex with perhaps several times, this virus without having told about it, says Moss .

She estimates that Sheen will lose any civil action that may be directed towards him from women who claim to have been subjected to just this.

Hollywood agent Howard Bragman says the magazine People that Sheen’s “speak out” -intervju can turn out in different ways.

– It could lead to him getting a lot of sympathy, but he also has reason to worry for potential lawsuits from former sexual partners. This is not something to take lightly, says Bragman, who reportedly already to have been in contact with people in Sheen’s close circle.

2012: Charlie Sheen and Slash during Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony in 2012, the latter was honored.

Photo: Todd Williamson , Ap

Warns old thinking

Other American sources emphasize that living with HIV is no longer the same as living with a death sentence, and points out the importance of not stigmatizing.

– Manges views on HIV are the same as they had in the 80s and 90s. The information about the current situation, is deficient. HIV is not transmitted easily and is easy to protect against, says Catherine Hanssens and Allison Nichols engaged in legal advice for just HIV-infected.

Commentator Tim Teeman in the US website The Daily Beast wrote before Sheen went on the air this morning that the coverage of the case so far “is as stupid and ignorant that we might as well resided us back in the 80s.”

“ Did it come a time machine and swept me off? Is it really 1985 again? It feels at least like that “he writes.

Charlie Sheen’s career has fluctuated enormously, and he has throughout his life in the limelight ensured scandal spreads. In 1990 he shot his then fiancee, actress Kelly Preston, accidentally. Soon after he lay down into detoxification.

In 1995, he was drawn into prostitution mushrooms scrolling around Heidi Fleiss and admitted in court to have spent over 340,000 million on Fleiss.

In the mid-90s was Sheen reviewed for turning a porn star boyfriend. At that time intoxicated he impetuously on cocaine, and after an overdose carried it into rehab again.

collapse

The big downturn began, however, in 2011 after he was fired from “Two and a Half Men.” Producers had enough of the star’s temperament after he scolded executive producer Chuck Lorre. Sheen filled slits day after day due to his bizarre behavior, including waving him with a machete on a roof and shouted “Finally free”.

Just after he put up a TV Interview with two mistresses who had moved in with him, one of them a porn actress.

– I’m not crazy, and I have the terrific, boasted Sheen at the time.

In an interview with the now Norway topical talk show king Jay Leno a few months later, crept Sheen, however, to the cross and admitted that he had behaved reprehensible.

STAR FAMILY: Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez in 1994 when Charlie got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Photo: Rhonda Birndorf , Ap

50-year-old, who raged and threatened 600 million kroner lawsuit against TV company when he was kicked out, explained that he is no longer bitter.

– I’m not angry anymore. I had been them, I would also given me fired, he said.

A somewhat more stable time came, where Sheen received starring in a new comedy show, “Anger Management,” take note with little trouble in Scenes also there. The series was made after two years and the last year it has been very quiet around Sheen.

Famous family

In the new series, he helped by, among others, his own father, actor veteran Martin Sheen (75).

The two are incidentally not the only actors in the genus. Actor Emilio Estevez (53) Charlie’s brother and Martins son, but he is the only one of the three that has kept the name. Charlie was originally named Carlos Irwin Estevez, while his father actually named Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez.