Charlie Sheen, the co-star of the sitcom Two and a Half Men is known more for his off-screen “bad-boy” behavior than his film and television chops. Now, in a new memoir out this month, he has revealed that he’s had sex with men.

“I flipped the menu over,” he says in The Book of Sheen and an accompanying Netflix documentary entitled, aka Charlie Sheen.

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The 60-year-old says talking publicly about having sex with guys is “liberating.”

“It’s f**king liberating… [to] just talk about stuff. It’s like a train didn’t come through the side of the restaurant. A f**king piano didn’t fall out of the sky. No one ran into the room and shot me.”

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Sheen says the menu “flipped” when he was addicted to crack cocaine.

“That’s what started it,” he told Good Morning America. “That’s where it was born, or sparked. And in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it — ‘Where did that come from?… Why did that happen? — and then just finally being like, ‘So what?’ So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f**king fun, and life goes on.”

During the eighth and final season of Two and a Half Men, Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television, earning $1.8 million an episode. But as his addictions overcame him, production shut down on the show, and Sheen went into consecutive stints in rehab.

Soon after, his erratic behavior went into overdrive, with him making infamous claims that he had “tiger blood” running through his veins, “Adonis DNA”, and was generally “winning” at life.

It was during those drug-fueled years that Sheen contracted HIV. He came out with his positive diagnosis in 2015 on the Today show, claiming he was getting ahead of threats of blackmail.

“I do know for a fact that I never passed it on,” he says now of the virus.

“I’m not going to run from my past, or let it own me,” Sheen told People in a cover story this week.

The father of four says he just wanted to tell his full truth and own his stories with his new book and documentary — and he didn’t want to censor anything.

“The stories I can remember anyway,” he jokes.

Rumors of Sheen’s same-sex exploits have been around for years.

In 2015, not long after Sheen went public with his HIV diagnosis, a sex tape with the actor luring another man “to serve his prurient desires” allegedly surfaced, with Sheen said to pay millions to make it disappear.

In 2017, a fellow actor and friend of late teen heartthrob Corey Haim accused Sheen of raping the 13-year-old while they were shooting the 1986 movie Lucas. Sheen denied the charge “absolutely.” (Haim died in 2010 at 38.)

The sometime member of the infamous 1980’s Brat Pack — along with his older brother Emilio Estevez — says he’s spent the past eight years making amends to the people he hurt while he was spiraling, but doesn’t want to play the victim.

“It takes two to tango,” he says. 

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