When did Charlie Sheen reveal his HIV diagnosis? Actor explains why an experimental drug was not available at the time

In 2015, actor Charlie Sheen revealed that he had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, almost 10 years down the line, he opened up about the scenario around HIV at that time. On the December 9 episode of the Howie Mandel Does Stuff show, Howie asked if his HIV had become negligible. The actor replied:

“Yeah. No, it's completely manageable.”

Mandel then asked:

“Did you do like an at the time like an experimental drug? Were you given something?”

Charlie Sheen replied:

“No, that was a detour that was ill advised, you know. There was one that was really good that I was hoping would come to market one day but never did. That was a thing called Pro 140 and it was it was an MAB, a monoclonal antibody that had much just quicker and I think more stable results with no side effects than the traditional.”

When asked why it didn’t come to the market, Charlie Sheen said it was supposedly a threat. He also said that the company landed in trouble because of internal problems with the CEOs. In 2015, when he appeared on the Today show, the actor said:

“I'm here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive and I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks, and of sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories that are about threatening the health of so many others which couldn’t be farther from the truth.”

Charlie Sheen said he paid people hush money before publicly revealing his diagnosis

During the 2015 interview, Charlie Sheen revealed that he was diagnosed with HIV four years ago. He said initially, the symptoms were cluster headaches, migraines, and sweating. He thought he had a brain tumor. When he finally got the diagnosis, he said it was difficult for him to absorb. The host mentioned that Sheen even had to pay money to people to stay silent about his diagnosis. The actor commented:

“I have paid those people not that many but enough to where it has depleted the future.”

The host asked the number of people he paid. The actor replied:

“I don’t want to guess wrong but enough to bring it into the millions. What people forget is that money they are taking from my children, you know. They think it’s just me but I got five kids and a granddaughter.”

Speaking about the people who blackmailed him, Charlie Sheen said that those were the ones he thought he could trust. They belonged to his inner social circle, and he thought they could help him out. Instead, his trust turned to their treason. When asked about associating with these people over and over, he said:

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“I was so depressed by the condition that I was doing a lot of dr*gs I was drinking way too much I and I was making really bad decisions.”

When asked if he had knowingly or unknowingly transmitted the virus to another person, Charlie Sheen said it was impossible that he would have done that.

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