Regrets, he’s had a few. Seven months after revealing his HIV-positive status, Charlie Sheen sat down for a follow-up interview on the Today show to discuss his life after going public with the diagnosis.
“It was like being released from prison,” he told Matt Lauer on Tuesday, June 21, of announcing in November 2015 — approximately four years after he was diagnosed — that he’s HIV-positive.
Sheen, 50, also opened up about his biggest regrets in his life and career during Tuesday’s interview.
“I regret not using a condom the one or two times when this whole thing happened,” he explained. “I regret ruining Two and a Half Men. I regret not being more involved in my children’s lives growing up, which I am now. That’s about it. We can only move forward from today. They wouldn’t call it the past if it wasn’t.”
The Anger Management actor, whose role as Charlie Harper on Two and a Half Men was loosely based on his signature bad boy image, starred on the hit CBS sitcom for eight seasons. During his run, he received four Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations and was the highest-paid actor on television at the time.
