By Katy Hallam,Nikki Onafuye

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Charlie Sheen has opened up about his past intimate encounters with men in his revealing new book and documentary. The 60 year old actor, who was supported by his ex-wife Denise Richards at the Los Angeles premiere of the Netflix series aka Charlie Sheen on Thursday, has been candid about his previous relationships in these works. “I flipped the menu over,” the Wall Street star admitted in his upcoming book and TV series when discussing his decision to have sexual relations with men. “I’m not going to run from my past, or let it own me,” he declared while promoting the projects. Read more Charlie Sheen says ‘next hit would kill me’ in heartbreaking health update Sheen also confessed that he was using crack cocaine during the time of these encounters with men. “That’s what started it,” Sheen shared with the press. “That’s where it was born, or sparked. “And 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? So what?’ “Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f****** fun. And life goes on”, he revealed to People magazine. In an interview on Good Morning America, Sheen was probed about his reasons for previously keeping these experiences with men under wraps, reports the Mirror . “It did come with a tremendous amount of extortion. So, at the time, I was just, ‘All right, let’s just pay to keep it quiet, and hope it stays there, make it go away,'” he explained his thought process at the time. “They had videoed things or whatever and had stuff over me, so that was kind of held hostage, you know, and that’s a bad feeling.” He disclosed his HIV status in 2015, stating, “I just need to be free of that and then see how the world feels if people know that stuff.” He described the act of sharing as a “tremendous relief.” In an interview, when asked about discussing his experiences with men for the first time, the Platoon actor said, “Liberating. It’s f****** liberating… [to] just talk about stuff. “It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A f****** piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me,” according to People. Sheen has since renounced drugs and claims to have been completely sober for eight years. He’s been making amends to those he hurt and insists he doesn’t want those reading his book or watching the docu-series to think he’s playing the victim. Born Carlos Irwin Estévez, Sheen is the offspring of Emmy winner Martin Sheen, 85. His acting career began with minor roles in his father’s films, but he made his mark in 1983’s Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray, and achieved his breakout role in 1986’s Platoon, portraying a young soldier sent to fight in the Vietnam War. He played a morally ambiguous stockbroker in the 1987 classic ‘Wall Street’, which saw his co-star Michael Douglas bag an Academy Award for Best Actor. The actor shot to fame as a notorious bachelor in the smash-hit series ‘Two and a Half Men’, until his dismissal in 2011 due to unpredictable behaviour stemming from drug use. These days, Sheen, a father of five, is enjoying a more subdued lifestyle. He has a 40 year old daughter, Cassandra, with his high school sweetheart Paula Profit. With former wife Denise Richards, he shares daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 20. The ‘Young Guns’ actor also has 16 year old twins Bob and Max with his ex Brook Mueller. “My romantic life is as uneventful as it possibly could be, and it’s been that way for a long time,” he shared with People. “It wasn’t even by choice, but the girls [Sami and Lola] moved in and then when they moved out, the boys moved in, and there wasn’t enough room in the car,” he elaborated. “Plus, I spent so much time and energy chasing that for so long. I had to get to a place where I could be alone, but not lonely.” His forthcoming book, ‘The Book of Sheen’, is set to hit shelves on September 9, and his Netflix debut, aptly titled ‘aka Charlie Sheen’, is slated for a September 10 release.