(NewsNation) — Charlie Sheen used so much cocaine that he was cut off from the Mexican cartel, he revealed in a new interview.
The actor appeared Sunday night on Australia’s “60 Minutes” where he shared the news, seemingly shocking reporter Amelia Adams.
“The cartel cut you off?” Adams asked.
“They did,” Sheen answered.
“They had never seen someone acquiring that kind of weight, you know, and so the only other people that they were delivering that kind of weight to were dealers, and they thought I was dealing on the side,” he continued.
Sheen is on a press run for his new memoir, “The Book of Sheen,” and his Netflix documentary, “aka Charlie Sheen.”
Adams asked the former “Two and a Half Men” star if he smoked “7g of crack cocaine” in one sitting.
“Well, we never, like, took one out of the pipe and put it on a scale,” he said.
Adding, “However, yeah, that was the amount that was cooked to get it into that form.
Sheen details crack use
In his book, Sheen writes that he started using substances at an early age. He tried marijuana at 11 years old and cocaine in high school, according to USA Today.
“The main issue with the drug, for me, was how cunning it was,” Sheen writes in the book. “I’d be going about my day handling a bunch of not cocaine things, and in the next second be launched into a hair-on-fire obsession to get that drug into my bloodstream.”
The “Platoon” star said he first tried crack in 1992 and was immediately hooked, USA Today reported.
Sheen’s addictions led to ‘Two and a Half Men’ firing
The actor was fired from “Two and a Half Men” in 2011 when he stopped showing up on set after he filed for divorce from his third wife, Brooke Mueller, according to USA Today.
He said his split from Mueller “left me numb, both in spirit and from the amount of booze and dope I showered my brain with to quell the debilitating frustrations. It was the flashpoint that left me unable to show up and execute my job with any focused consistency, and as a result, ‘Two and a Half’ came to a screeching halt with eight episodes still on the production schedule.”
At the time of his erratic behavior, he also called the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre, a “contaminated little maggot.”
The 60-year-old Sheen is now sober, having quit drinking in 2017 and using drugs years before.
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