Actor Charlie Sheen reveals he is HIV positive in live TV interview

When Lauer asked Sheen whether he was still paying the extortionists, Sheen replied, “Not after today, I’m not”.

Sheen, who’s 50, said Tuesday there’s another reason he’s publicly confirming he has the disease, revealing he’d paid “millions” to parties he didn’t name, calling the payments “shakedowns” and saying those parties threatened to go public with his HIV-positive diagnosis if he didn’t pay.

“I’m gonna ride this wave of support, and if there was one guy on this planet to contract this that’s going to deliver a cure, it’s me”, said Sheen.

During the appearance, Dr. Huizenga made it clear Sheen does not have the full-blown AIDS virus, and insisted that after receiving ongoing treatment, the actor is as healthy as he can be, under the circumstances.

A number of tabloids speculated over his sexual activity after his diagnosis, but Sheen said it was “impossible” that he had passed on the virus and claimed he used condoms with the series of sex workers he had hired.

Sheen said that he had unprotected sex with two partners, but both were warned ahead of time and under a doctor’s care.

Referencing “sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories” written that he was a health risk, Sheen said the idea he would knowingly and recklessly expose others to the disease “couldn’t be further from the truth”. “I release myself from this prison today”, he told Lauer.

He said Sheen does not have AIDS which is the final stage of HIV, when a person’s body can no longer fight life-threatening infections.

“What people forget is that’s money they’re taking from my children”, he said.

That’s because they may miss doctor’s appointments and medication doses.

Charlie said he is not now taking drugs but still drinks alcohol. “While it was once thought to be a death sentence, people diagnosed with HIV early “. One of his ex-girlfriends, former adult film star Bree Olson, 29, appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” on Sirius XM on Tuesday where she revealed she had no idea about Sheen’s condition while the two were a couple. “And hopefully with what we’re doing today others will come forward and say, ‘Thanks, Charlie, ‘” he said.

She said: “He loved us all”.

“I’ve told enough people to put me in the position I am in now”. “I thought I had a brain tumor”. In a statement in his typically colorful way with words, Sheen now says, “In and around this perplexity of hard time, I dazedly chose or hired the companionship of unsavory types”.

Sheen’s last TV series, “Anger Management”, was canceled in 2014.