Charlie Sheen: I’m HIV-positive

Charlie Sheen, 50, confirmed on Tuesday that he is HIV-positive, as rumoured in recent days by an onslaught of tabloid stories.

When asked to respond to rumours Sheen has Aids, Dr Huizenga said: “Charlie does not have Aids – that’s when the virus suppresses the immune system”.

He said several people had blackmailed him for their silence and he had paid “enough to bring it into the millions”.

“I loved him, yes, he was my boyfriend”, Olson told Stern. “I left the industry for him and I never went back”.

Sheen said he had never missed taking his medication over the four years since he learned of the diagnosis.

“I made the mistake that a lot of people do, I trusted him”, she said.

“Not anymore I don’t”, Sheen said. She lived with Sheen in 2011. “Impossible”, and insisted he had informed every sexual partner of his condition beforehand.

But in California, where Sheen resides, a person can be charged with a felony only if they are aware they are HIV-positive and engage in unprotected sex with another person with the specific intent of exposing them to the disease.

“Don’t treat us like the plague, ’cause that’s how it feels when you run from us and shy away from us like we have the plague”, he says.

“I’ve paid those people”.

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

With his public pronouncements, Sheen said he hoped to reduce the stigma and shame still felt by others diagnosed with HIV, as well as by those reluctant to be tested in the first place.

Actor Charlie Sheen appears during an interview, Tuesday, November 17, 2015 on NBC’s “Today” in NY. Sheen said that he had unprotected sex with two partners, but both were warned ahead of time and under a doctor’s care.

“If there’s one guy on the planet to contract this who is going to deliver a cure, it’s me. 20 years ago when you contracted HIV you were dead in 10 years”, says a man who wishes to remain anonymous.

He said he would speak out often about the subject but pick his spots “carefully and respectfully”.

And Gay Men’s Health Crisis CEO Kelsey Louie said, “It takes incredible strength to disclose such private information to the world, and just like anyone else, Charlie Sheen deserves privacy and respect for sharing his status – no matter what his personal circumstances were”. He added he was “very far down the road” of relieving himself from those demons.

Speaking about the time prior to his diagnosis, he said: “It started with a series of cluster headaches and sweating – I was hospitalised”.

Sheen’s camp announced last night’s tell-all interview on NBC after the Enquirer and a string of other USA media outed Sheen’s condition on Monday.

Celebrities have tweeted their support for the star, including former Spin City co-star Heather Locklear who wrote, “My heart hurts”.

His first marriage, to Donna Peele, ended after a year.

But Olson is still concerned about any number of sexual partners Sheen could have had who don’t take advantage of easy HIV testing, a process that took her 20 minutes in Indiana.

“20 years ago I received a death sentence”.

“The interview could open up a lot of sympathy for him, but he has to be concerned about fear of litigation from former sexual partners”.