Charlie Sheen Is Open to Love Again, but ‘Probably Not Marriage’ (Exclusive)

Charlie Sheen, who was last married to Brooke Mueller before their 2011 divorce, says he’s been single for quite some time now.

“My romantic life is as uneventful as it possibly could be,” Sheen recently told PEOPLE for this week’s cover story. “It’s been that way for a long time.”

The 60-year-old actor, who is celebrating nearly eight years of sobriety, says swearing off love and sex wasn’t part of any larger plan when he decided to stop drinking in 2017 (he had already stopped doing drugs).

“It wasn’t even by choice,” he says. “But the girls [daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 20, whom he shares with ex Denise Richards] moved in, and then when they moved out, the boys [twins Bob and Max, 16, whom he shares with Mueller] moved in.”

Sheen continues, “My analogy for it was, there just wasn’t enough room in the car. 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. I’m there now, which is pretty cool.”

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Sheen says he’s not ruling it out love in his future.

“I am open to love again. If somebody walked through the door and it was the right time and you can’t deny it … absolutely. Probably not marriage, though,” says Sheen, whose memoir The Book of Sheen comes out Sept. 9.

“I put this at the end of my book, but ‘no’ is my new favorite word and I put as much value in that as I do in ‘love’ as I get older,” he adds. “It’s more important to me that I like the people I’m around.”

Sheen, who recently played a role in the series Bookie, is also gearing up for the release of the Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen (out Sept. 10).

He says he’s looking forward to sharing his whole truth about his wild past and notorious struggles with addiction.

His once-tumultuous relationships with Richards and Mueller (both of whom are featured in the documentary) are in positive places now.

“We text all the time,” he says, and he’s co-parenting with Mueller, living with one of his teenage twins while the other is in Florida with Mueller.

“I think everybody’s just tired of bad energy,” he adds of their nasty public divorces. “You kind of run out of steam for that.”

These days, Sheen says he is just happy to have new projects as well as a great, loving relationship with his parents after they worried about him for so long.

“If they didn’t live so close, I’d probably move from Malibu,” he says of the beach town where he grew up. “Maybe just a house far away, in the middle of a meadow.”