LOS ANGELES — Charlie Sheen walked the red carpet for the first time in decades Tuesday night, celebrating the premiere of his new Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen. What he didn’t expect was to be standing next to his ex-wife Denise Richards, smiling for cameras like old times.
“I show up and my drug dealer has taken more photos than I have. And in the next minute I’m on the red carpet with my gorgeous ex-wife, like we’re headed out on the town. What the hell happened?” Sheen told the audience at Netflix’s Tudum Theater, where Richards and Heidi Fleiss were among those in attendance.
Sheen, 60, marked eight years of sobriety this month. Once the highest-paid actor on television at $1.8 million an episode for Two and a Half Men, he was fired from the series in 2011 at the height of his public meltdown. The new two-part documentary retraces that spiral—though only the first episode was screened at the premiere.
“If we were to watch Part 2, then we wouldn’t be able to maintain, at the end of it, any eye contact,” Sheen admitted.
Directed by Andrew Renzi, the series features interviews with Sheen, Fleiss, Sean Penn, Ramon Estevez, Chris Tucker, and Jon Cryer. Renzi praised Sheen’s unlikely stability throughout the process.
“I never could have imagined that Charlie and this project would be the most stable and reassuring presence in my life,” Renzi said. “Charlie’s been defined as mercurial, dangerous, romantic, unpredictable—that makes for a great documentary. He’s a Hollywood icon that will never exist again.”
Absent from the premiere were Sheen’s father, Martin Sheen, and brother, Emilio Estevez. Cryer, who participated in the documentary, also did not attend.
Last modified: September 10, 2025
