Charlie Sheen Once Shoved Ice Up His Butt to Stay Awake on Set, and Other Shocking Moments from Netflix’s ‘AKA Charlie Sheen’ Documentary

Sheen speaks publicly about having sex with men.

At end of Part 2 of the documentary, director Andrew Renzi asks his crew to clear the room, so that Sheen can address issues he’s never spoken about publicly before. That includes Sheen’s sexual encounters with men.

At first, Sheen simply alludes to having sex with men, using a menu as a metaphor. “Cocaine is a very sexual drug. At some point, if you’re looking at a menu, you’re going to turn that fucker over,” Sheen says with a smirk. “‘Let’s go with that as an appetizer. Let’s just go with one of each. Bring me the chef’s surprise.’ Rather than talking about what’s on the menu or what I specifically ordered, I think there’s enough people that are going to come out of the fucking woodwork when they hear me present that, and claim a lot of stuff. Some of it will be true, and other parts of it won’t be. At that point, it’s out of my hands. I encourage them to have at it.”

But Renzi pushes Sheen to clarify that he is, for the first time, speaking publicly about having sex with men. He asks Sheen how it feels to speak openly about it.

“It’s fucking liberating,” Sheen replies. “It’s like, a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A fucking piano didn’t come out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me. It’s uncharted.”

When asked if he ever slept with men before smoking crack Sheen replies no. “That’s what started it, that’s where it was born, or sparked,” Sheen explained. “during chunks of time when I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it… Like where did that come from, why did that come from? And then finally being like, ‘So what? So what?’ Some of it was weird, a lot of it was fucking fun. Life goes on.”

Sheen denies sexually assaulting Corey Haim.

In his 2020 documentary, My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys, Corey Feldman accused Sheen of raping his fellow actor, Corey Haim, during the filming of the 1986 film Lucas, when Haim was 13 and Sheen was 19. Haim died in 2010. Others featured in Feldman’s documentary also say that Haim told them he was sexually abused by Sheen.

When director Andrew Renzi brings up these allegations in the Netflix documentary, Sheen replies, “Absolute fucking bullshit. This is where everybody is going to pause the doc, and go find the fucking story. Go for it. At that point, they’ll have read more about it than I have.”

Sheen goes on to say that he “should have taken legal action against Feldman, but I didn’t feel like giving that clown that much more content. He just went out of his way to launch this thing. We were friends, back in the day, or so I thought. It’s a piece of vial fiction, is what it is.”

Sheen once shoved an ice cube up his butt to stay awake while filming a movie.

In Part 1 of the documentary, Sheen remembers filming the 1998 movie Free Money, during a period where Sheen’s heavy cocaine use had him struggling to stay awake on camera. So, Sheen explains, he asked the director for a cup of ice, took it to the bathroom, shoved an ice cube up his butt, and then came out and did the scene.

“I’ve never done that before,” Sheen said. “And man, I was wide awake. Just enough to get back on the mark and finish the fucking scene, with an ice cube in my ass.”

Director Andrew Renzi pairs this anecdote with footage from the Free Money scene that Sheen is referring to, in which the actor does appear to fidget in discomfort.

Sheen claims he never gave anyone HIV.

When director Andrew Renzi brings up the allegations that Sheen hid his HIV status from sexual partners, Sheen denies it.

However, he said, he paid off many women who threatened to expose his diagnosis. He claims he paid woman “half a mil” if he “got off cheap,” and that he paid at least one woman $1.4 million. Then he goes on to say he never passed on the virus to anyone.

“There is only one person in the entire fucking mix that still has this thing, that has it, period. And that’s this guy. Nobody got this from me, period, the end. Full stop.”

Denise Richards alludes to domestic abuse during their marriage.

Sheen’s ex-wife Denise Richards chose to participate in the documentary because, she says “otherwise, this movie is going to be a fluffy, glossed-over, sugar-coated piece of shit.” Yet, Richards does somewhat gloss over the abuse she faced in her marriage to Sheen.

“What I went through, what he did put me through, I don’t know how I’m here, to be honest,” Richards tells the camera. “I think the only way through tragedy, what I was going through, was having a fucking sense of humor about it, because it was so bad.”

Richards goes on to reference a time Sheen “took a baseball bat to all the TVs.” Richards explained,”We can joke around, like, stupid shit. I know the outside people would think we’re crazy, making fun of, ‘Oh yeah, remember when you took a baseball bat to all the TVs, and shit like that?’ It sounds horrible and very dark, but for us, that was the life.”

Richards made sandwiches for Sheen’s sex workers on the set of Two and A Half Men.

After their divorce, Richards would still take calls to come to the set of Two and a Half Men to take care of her ex-husband. Once, she was making a sandwich for him because he hadn’t eaten, and, she says, ran into a very-guilty-looking Jon Cryer and women who were clearly sex workers hired by Sheen. So, she says, she made sandwiches for them, too.

“What am I gonna say, because of what you do for a living, you don’t one of my white trash mayo, mustard, turkey, cheese, lettuce sandwiches?”

Jon Cryer compares Charlie Sheen’s negotiations with CBS to dictator Kim Jong-Il.

Sheen’s Two and a Half Men co-star Jon Cryer recalls the period of time when Sheen was deep in his addiction problems, and trying to leave the show. In response, CBS ultimately offered Sheen $2 million an episode to stay, making him the highest paid actor on television.

“The dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong Il,” Cryer tells the camera. “He acted crazy all the time, and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him, that they would shovel money at him. Well, that’s what happened here. His negotiations went off the chart, because his life was falling apart. Me, whose life was pretty good at that time, I got a third of that.”

Heidi Fleiss calls Sheen a “pussy bitch” for testifying against her.

The most colorful character in AKA Charlie Sheen is not Sheen himself, but Heidi Fleiss, who spent seven years in prison for running a Hollywood-based sex worker operation, after Sheen testified against her in 1995. Sheen’s name was connected to Fleiss as he’d written her travelers checks, but authorities agreed to drop his charges if he testified again her. So he did. Fleiss served prison time, and Sheen didn’t.

Fleiss doesn’t mince words, declaring Sheen “a crybaby pussy bitch.”

“Robert Mitchum, he was arrested for marijuana, they said tell us your dealer, and he said, ‘Charge me with a crime,’” Fleiss says. “Charlie should have said, ‘Charge me with a crime.’ He’s a crybaby rich boy. He’s a rich kid from Malibu, they’re not gonna do shit to him, he’s Charlie Sheen!”

Sheen once piloted a passenger jet while drunk.

It’s the anecdote that opens the movie: Sheen, once hammered on a flight, was called up to meet the pilot of a passenger plane he was on. One thing led to another, and Sheen found himself sitting in the pilot’s seat, and the pilot switched off autopilot so Sheen could fly the plane.

“I’m there, drunk. Close to 300 people behind me. An angry bride twenty feet behind me. And I start guiding this plane. Very, very subtle adjustments. This perfect, magical flying machine responding in a way that I cannot put in words.”

If that story isn’t the perfect metaphor for Sheen’s life, I’m not sure what is.

Sheen’s drug dealer helped wean him off crack by giving him weaker doses.

Sheen’s drug dealer, Marco, says in the film that he was approached by Sheen’s drug counselor about making the crack he gave to Sheen less potent.

“It took about a good year and a half, but that’s how he got sober,” Marco explained. “He actually just got tired of smoking bum crack, which he thought was good crack, he just stopped.”

“They were trying to get me off of crack by making weaker crack,” Sheen says in the film, adding that he was “impressed” when he found out about the plot after the fact. “Talk about thinking outside the box.”

These days, Sheen leaves Post-Its around the house calling his son a “lazy c–t.”

The final moments documentary attempts to paint Sheen as a fully recovered, loving father who has taken on the responsibility of caring for his teenage son, Bob. This point is undercut by the fact that Sheen, apparently, leaves aggressive notes around the house when his son does something Sheen disapproves of.

“I only like recently started living with him and stuff,” Bob tells the camera.”We’re kind of opposites right now. I forget everything, he remembers everything. Like with bottles, I always open bottles a little bit and don’t finish it, and then I accidentally leave the bottle out and get another bottle to drink. It drives him crazy.”

This story is accompanied by whimsical music and photos of the Post-Its Sheen leaves around the house for his son, including one that reads, “Whoever did this is a lazy cunt,” and another that says,”Go fuck yourself.”