Here Are the Wildest Moments from Just the Trailer of Netflix’s New Charlie Sheen Documentary

Very few celebrity breakdowns have compared to what Charlie Sheen inflicted on himself and the general public, particularly between 2009 and 2015. He got himself fired from Two and a Half Men, went on a public tour defined by the slogan “#winning” and being inebriated and ruined a handful of lives during the height of his addiction. With the benefit of 14 years somewhat softening the extreme behavior, it might seem like what Sheen got up to in the 2010s wasn’t that big of a deal. 

But with a new Netflix documentary, aka Charlie Sheen, slated to air on September 10th, there’s no doubt that the public will begin extensively rehashing the very big deal that was Sheen’s absolutely out-of-control run while in the depths of his substance abuse. The trailer, which was released on September 13th, offers a first look at the film from director Andrew Prezi. 

“Charlie Sheen — as you’ve never seen him — finally leaves it all on the table, and revisits the very public peaks and valleys of his life with humor, heart and jaw-dropping candor,” the documentary’s description reads.

Just from the trailer, we can see that there’s interviews with Denise Richards, Heidi Fleiss, Jon Cryer, Sean Penn, Ramon Estevez, Brooke Mueller, Chris Tucker, Sheen’s former drug dealer and Sheen himself.

These appearances only cover a small amount of the chaos from Sheen’s life. But if these soundbites are anything to go by, aka Charlie Sheen will leave nothing out. Here are the wildest quotes from the newly released trailer. 

• “Charlie is a crybaby pussy bitch.” — Heidi Fleiss
• “He testified against me, and I went to jail.” — Heidi Fleiss
• “He kept saying, ‘No, no, no. I’m in the hospital now, but next week I’ll be ready for the show.’” — Jon Cryer
• “When Charlie said that he was smoking seven gram rocks, he was smoking seven gram rocks.” — Charlie’s drug dealer
• “The stuff that I plan on sharing, I had made a sacred vow to only reveal to a therapist.” — Sheen

It could be easy to assume that this is a case of “they’re putting everything juicy in the trailer,” but only if you are unfamiliar with the tabloid coverage of Sheen’s life. A quick-ish summary: The son of actor Martin Sheen, Charlie was an 1980s heartthrob, and starred in the Oscar winning film Platoon in 1986. He testified against Fleiss, a big-time madam to Hollywood whose services he utilized, in the 1990s. Throughout the ‘90s, he was also arrested for assault and in and out of rehab. During the early aughts, he divorced from Denise Richards, who accused him of physical and verbal abuse, and was later accused of abusing his wife Brooke Mueller. 

By 2010, Sheen was in and out of hospitals. It was in February 2011 during a Today Show interview that he claimed didn’t need Alcoholics Anonymous because it was "written for normal people, people that aren’t special, people that don’t have tiger blood, you know, Adonis DNA." 

Throughout the next few years, Sheen would get numerous opportunities to return to television while getting arrested for assault and publicly threatening his ex-wives. Then, in 2015, he went on the Today Show again, this time to reveal that he was HIV positive. “I’m here to admit that I am, in fact, HIV positive,” Sheen said. 

Again, this summary is just scraping the surface; the two-part documentary will likely get into even further detail. And if the trailer is any indication, it won’t be sanitizing a thing.