I am HIV positive: Charlie Sheen

Details emerge out of NBC’s Today show

Former Two and A Half Men star Charlie Sheen said on Tuesday he is HIV positive.

Sheen, 50, told NBC’s Today show in a television interview that he was diagnosed about four years ago.

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

“It’s a hard three letters to absorb.”

When Lauer asked Sheen if he had engaged in unprotected sex since his diagnosis, the actor responded yes, but added that those sexual partners were under the care of his doctors at the time.

Sheen, who is three times divorced, played the womanising bachelor on Two and A Half Men as Charlie Harper that was a top-rated U.S. Comedy series for eight years before being fired in 2011 for bad behavior that included cocaine-fueled partying with porn stars and a conviction for assaulting his ex-wife.