During an interview on 60 Minutes Australia, Charlie Sheen revealed that his drug use was so bad at one point that a Mexican drug cartel was forced to cut him off.
Fresh off the release of his new memoir, The Book of Sheen, the now eight-year clean actor reflected on the severity of his cocaine use when speaking with journalist Amelia Adams. At around the 13:20-minute point of the interview, which can be seen in full below, Sheen was asked about his claim about the Mexican cartel that was supplying him with the drug, and he confirmed that they refused to sell to him after a while.
"The cartel cut off you off?" Adams asked. "They did," he replied. "They had never seen someone acquiring that kind of weight. So the only other people that they were delivering that kind of weight to were dealers, and they thought I was dealing on the side." He was also asked if he was really smoking seven-gram rocks of crack cocaine, and he said it was more or less true. "You're lucky to be alive," said Adams. "I know, I get all that," he said.
Sheen has been very open about his drug habits in recent years, feeling the need to share the details of his addiction issues now that he's sober. He also recently shared that during the height of his addiction to drugs, he was also addicted to sex and admitted that he had sexual interactions with men, too.
"I flipped the menu," he said. "I'm not going to run from my past, or let it own me." He said it felt "fucking liberating" to reveal this to the world. "In whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it—'Where did that come from?... Why did that happen?'—and then just finally being like, 'So what?'" he said. "Some of it was weird. A lot of it was fucking fun, and life goes on.
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