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Charlie Sheen: ‘I Am In Fact HIV Positive’ — VIDEO
Actor Charlie Sheen sat down with Matt Lauer on the TODAY show this morning and told Lauer, “I’m here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive.”
Sheen told Lauer he was diagnosed four years ago, and he has paid people millions of dollars to keep them silent.
“That’s money they’ve taken from my children,” he added.
“I chose the companionship of insipid types,” he said. “I always led with condoms and honesty…Sadly my truth became their treason.”
Sheen said that people shook him down and threatened to reveal his status. A prostitute came over to his house and took an image of his retroviral medication and threatened to sell it to tabloids.
“I was doing a lot of drugs. I was drinking too much. I was making really bad decisions.”
Sheen said it is “impossible” that he has transmitted the virus to anyone else. He has had unprotected sex but “they were warned ahead of time” and under the care of his doctor.
Sheen’s “tiger blood” period was more of a roid rage and not a reaction to his diagnosis, he said.
“I don’t” [feel the stigma of HIV anymore], he added. “I have a responsibility to better myself and to help a lot of people. ‘
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