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I<\/span>f it comes as a shock to anyone that at some point in the grip of a decades-long addiction to pills, booze and crack cocaine the essentially heterosexual Charlie Sheen<\/a> occasionally \u201cturned over the menu\u201d and had sex with men, then I am delighted. I did not know such pockets of naivety could still exist in this benighted world. You sweet things. Enjoy your time!<\/p>\n

That this is the fact that has made headlines (the few there have been) around the release of the two-part documentary AKA Charlie Sheen is testimony to how little new information there is in it. How, really, could it be otherwise? Every one of the three acts \u2013 which in the film he labels \u201cPartying\u201d, \u201cPartying with problems\u201d and \u201cJust problems\u201d \u2013 of his adult life has been comprehensively documented by the media in real time. Sometimes that was via stories sold by the people he partied with, sometimes via public hospitalisations and press conferences called by his father Martin Sheen to try to control the press interest. Sometimes it was thanks to Charlie\u2019s own interviews or call-ins to the likes of Alex Jones\u2019s Infowars shows, or ranting videos posted on YouTube about his \u201ctiger blood\u201d and \u201cAdonis DNA\u201d done under the influence, or as a result of the drawn-out divorce proceedings between him and Denise Richards as his substance abuse made their life together untenable. And sometimes it was an amalgam, as when in 2015 he gave an exclusive interview to NBC\u2019s Today show<\/a> revealing his HIV+ status, to end various extortion attempts people had made over the four years since his diagnosis.<\/p>\n

Martin Sheen and Charlie\u2019s brother Emilio Estevez declined to participate in the film. No one \u2013 including Charlie, as he says himself \u2013 can blame them. He is clear and it is clear that it is only because of his family\u2019s enduring love that he is here to tell his tale at all. His other brother Ramon, however, is there, along with his daughter Lola, son Bob and their mothers \u2013 Richards and Brooke Mueller respectively, Charlie\u2019s second and third wives. The women speak honestly and in Richards\u2019 case very bracingly about him but still the love is clear.<\/p>\n

You can see why. Charlie, now seven years sober, is inherently warm and effortlessly charming as he\u2019s interviewed by film-maker Andrew Renzi. Likewise, in clips of him giving interviews early in his career, and in footage taken from the Sheen family videos, he and Emilio radiate charisma, too.<\/p>\n

None of which, of course, means he wasn\u2019t a monster when high. You don\u2019t notice until afterwards how gentle a ride Renzi has given him, how lightly the accusations of domestic violence, the restraining orders, the parental failures and claims that he exposed girlfriends to HIV have been passed over, how much control over the narrative has been placed in Sheen\u2019s hands. He pays what seems to be genuine homage to his family and friends\u2019 patience and compassion \u2013 especially his childhood stalwart Tony Todd, who grew up with the Sheens as a neighbour, has never touched drugs or alcohol and nearly cries as he remembers nights at Charlie\u2019s house during his hardest-partying years, hoping he wasn\u2019t going to go into his bedroom the next morning and find him dead. But signs of true contrition, remorse or understanding of the suffering he must have put so many others through are increasingly conspicuous by their absence.<\/p>\n

There is the odd moment when the glossy facade cracks. Most notably with Heidi Fleiss, the madam against whom Sheen, alone of her clients<\/a>, testified in court. \u201cThe crybaby pussy bitch,\u201d she says, still fibrillating with an almost refreshing rage. And there is Jon Cryer, Sheen\u2019s co-star in Two and a Half Men, whose bone-deep weariness with \u201cthe cycle\u201d the actor put the cast and crew through so many times over the years is still apparent. \u201cHe was having a tantrum,\u201d he says of the binge Sheen went on after eventually being sacked from the show. \u201cBecause he had everything and then he lost it.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is too little self-examination on Sheen\u2019s part here \u2013 and too many wistfully happy smiles as he remembers his partying days \u2013 for us to feel any sorrier for him than we do for those around him. Maybe he saves all that for his therapist and gives just the surface stuff to us. Let\u2019s hope so. It would be the healthiest move he has made in his life.<\/p>\n