Charlie Sheen Addresses Tensions with Daughter Sami, 21 (Exclusive)

Charlie Sheen is detailing where things stand with his daughter, Sami Sheen.

The Two and a Half Men alum tells PEOPLE that there’s “some stuff” going on involving his 21-year-old daughter and that he’s optimistic about the future of their relationship.

“There’s some stuff going on with Sami, but we’ll fix it,” he says.

The actor, who turned 60 on Wednesday, Sept. 3, also says, “I’ve got more days behind me than in front of me and that’s fine.”

“That’s the deal we get when we show up [on Earth],” he continues. “But what I try to tell my kids is, ‘Dude, you’re going to be here so long after I’m not. So try to hang on to at least 10% of what I’m saying. I guarantee it will come in handy somewhere, I promise it.'”

Charlie’s comment comes ahead of the release of his debut memoir The Book of Sheen and two-part Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen.

Sami, one of the actor’s five children and his eldest with ex Denise Richards, has detailed the dynamic of her relationship with her dad on both TikTok and on an episode of Denise Richards & Her Wild Things.

In an April video shared to the platform, Sami wrote that she hadn’t “spoken to my dad in a year,” while also sharing during the Bravo series that she’d gone several months without speaking with Charlie.

Charlie elaborated on the status of their relationship in a Good Morning America interview with Michael Strahan on Friday, Sept. 5.

“As long as everybody is still in the game, there’s always a shot for a better tomorrow,” he said of Sami. “I don’t really know what I did, that’s the problem. I don’t know what I’m supposed to apologize for. But I have absolute faith that this is not a forever thing.”

“Her and I will work it out,” he added. “It’s too valuable to let some moment destroy all of that.”

Sheen — who is also dad to daughters Cassandra Jade Estevez, 40, Lola, 20, and 16-year-old twin sons Bob and Max — said he and his kids have “legitimate” relationships that have “nothing to do with anything I do for a living.” He welcomed Cassandra with high school girlfriend Paula Profit, shares both Lola and Sami with Richards and shares his boys with ex Brooke Mueller.

“Up to a certain age, kids have no [interest], you probably know, they don’t care what your ratings are,” he told Strahan.

Sami previously discussed tensions with her father on an April 1 episode of Denise Richards & Her Wild Things, after apparently turning down an opportunity to join him for lunch.

“Me and my dad haven’t really spoken much in the past five months,” she said. “It goes in very big chunks with him. I think for the first 13 years of my life, it was pretty bad, and then we were OK for a couple years, and now it’s just like, OK.”

“I understand why Sami feels the way she does,” Denise added. “It hasn’t always been perfect with he and Lola, either — with any of his kids. So I hope that he does recognize that because he’s missing out.”

She has also addressed their relationship on TikTok, lip-syncing her dad’s infamous 2011 interview about drug use from ABC’s 20/20. “When people wonder why I haven’t spoken to my dad in a year but this is my dad,” she wrote over the clip, which featured a soundbite of Charlie previously addressing if drugs were in his home at the time (“If there are, you better find them and give them to me immediately.”).

Sami later touched on her dynamic with her father earlier this week, responding to a video from PEOPLE where Charlie was asked who he calls when he needs a laugh. “Hmmm, I’m gonna say, anyone but your daughter,” she replied in the stitched clip.

Charlie gets candid about his life, his past and his sobriety in both of his new projects.

“It’s not about me setting the record straight or righting all the wrongs of my past,” Sheen exclusively told PEOPLE.

“Most of my 50s were spent apologizing to the people I hurt. I also didn’t want to write from the place of being a victim. I wasn’t, and I own everything I did. It’s just me, finally telling the stories in the way they actually happened,” he continued, joking, “The stories I can remember, anyway.” 

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The Book of Sheen: A Memoir is available to purchase on Sept. 9, and aka Charlie Sheen can be streamed Sept. 10 on Netflix.