‘West Wing’ actor Martin Sheen praises son Charlie’s courage

In the 30 years I’ve had HIV, I never expected to feel sorry, tender even, for a Hollywood actor, let alone Charlie Sheen: wanting to give this hot man-mess a hug, clap him on the back, spur him on to sober up and start living with HIV rather than dying from the shame of it.

“I am here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive”, Sheen said in interview with NBC’s Today show. Know the history of celebrities who had AIDS or HIV. “I’m clean and – I know… but I believed him”, she said. What happens at that point is, people do not transmit the virus to other people.

She added that Sheen’s ex Brooke Mueller was just as into the debauchery as Sheen was. Sheen said he was diagnosed four years and is treating the virus with medications.

Asked by Lauer if he expected “a barrage of lawsuits” from past sexual partners alleging he infected them, he said wanly, “I’m sure that’s next”. “I was tested in 1987, I didn’t pick up my test results until the end of 1989, and didn’t tell people for another year after that”.

Charlie made the announcement during a live chat with Matt Lauer on Tuesday morning and said it was a way he could “release” himself “from this prison”.

The actress, who worked with Sheen for six years on the ABC sitcom, took to Instagram on Monday, posting a throwback picture of the two of them together along with a message. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there are 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States today.

And Gay Men’s Health Crisis CEO Kelsey Louie said, “Charlie Sheen deserves privacy and respect for sharing his status – no matter what his personal circumstances were”.

The retired professional basketball player, who announced he was HIV-positive in 1991, has offered his support to the 50-year-old actor and has reassured him medicine nowadays is so advanced that he will likely to go on to “live a long life”. “I’m ready now”, he said.

He said he had paid “enough to bring it into the millions” – perhaps as much as $10 million – to buy their silence. Not only was his HIV status disclosed, but Sheen also answered questions about his diagnosis, his bank account, his revolving door of past prostitute companions, and how he revealed his status to his former wife Denise Richards and his family.

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