Charlie Sheen’s Drug Revelations From New Memoir: From Cocaine to Crack

Nothing was off the table for Charlie Sheen when it came to reliving his drug-fueled debauchery in new memoir The Book of Sheen.

At one point in the book, which was released on Tuesday, September 9, the actor recalled being cut off from his drug dealer. Why? Because his “south of the border” supplier assumed Sheen, 60, was flipping the script and dealing himself with the amount of drugs he purchased. (Sheen has been sober since 2017.)

“I’m not sure what the catalyst was, but I wound up on the most colossal run of all runs that saw me blast through almost two kilos in under three weeks,” Sheen wrote. At the end of his third nonstop party week, Sheen got a call from his dealer.

“My guys are shutting you down because they’re convinced that you’re dealing,” Sheen claimed the conversation went. “They’ve never seen this much dope go to one guy who wasn’t dealing, and they’re giving you a pass — because you’re my guy.”

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Sheen either had to “chase down a new dealer or cut my pipe dreams in half” but he knew it wasn’t great overall.

“It’s a difficult feeling to describe — on one hand it was a badge of honor that landed me in the crack Hall of Fame,” he wrote. “On the other, I’d lost their trust and that was super no bueno.”

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Keep scrolling for more of Sheen’s drug admissions from the book:

Smoking His 1st Joint

Sheen was 11 years old when he took “the first few puffs” of his first-ever joint. The actor remembered that they “went down pretty smooth and tasted amazing.” According to Sheen, “a new world was taking shape.”

“I was so high I felt like I was in a movie where hats were illegal because they were filled with chocolate potato salad,” Sheen wrote. “None of it made sense, and I was starting to panic.”

His friend’s dad drove him home, where the babysitter sent him to bed without dinner — but then “the munchies hit me like a city bus.”

How Drugs Led to His 1st Arrest

Sheen got arrested in high school after falling asleep in his car.

“I told him a lie about the car breaking down, and me being too tired to push it to the side of the road. He didn’t care and demanded the standard documents. I opened the glove box to retrieve them,” he wrote. “Eyeing the travel bong, he sternly asked me, ‘Like to smoke a little pot, do we?’ To my credit I flatly stated, ‘I do.’”

The admission led to “cuffs, miranda [rights], and a quick trip to city hall in central Malibu,” Sheen recalled. “I sat in the holding tank for two hours, replaying the avoidable mistakes that had landed me there. Mistakes number one and two: the sativa nightcap and the place we parked to do it.”

What Is the Coco-Puff Method?

Sheen wrote that his “main issue” with cocaine was “how cunning it was.”

“I’d be going about my day handling a bunch of not cocaine things, and in the next second be launched into a hair-on-fire obsession to get that drug into my bloodstream,” he added. “I wasn’t snorting it as much as I was putting it in the end of my cigarettes for a move known as the coco-puff. Decent head rush that lasted about a minute until the next cig-tip had to be filled and lit.”

The Rehab Aftermath

Following his first rehab stint, Sheen “took cocaine off the menu” and kept his drinking habit under the radar.

“I’d tell the waitress to hide my wine in a mug and spend many dinners looking like a guy who had a real problem with coffee,” he wrote. “I did my best to keep it in check and drink just enough to have a good time, then shut it down when the next movie was starting.”

Without cocaine, Sheen wrote that he would “balance” it out by “doubling the level of booze consumption.”

His Experience With Crack

Sheen’s first experience with crack came in 1992 with a woman he dated on and off. ” After saving her “from a gaggle of tweakers in a dope house,” the two went back to Sheen’s condo where they found themselves in his bed getting high.

“As I took that massive first hit, Sandy disappeared under the covers and I disappeared from planet earth,” he wrote.

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Sheen wrote that “nothing would be the same” for him after that experience.

Things “got dark fast” for Sheen in terms of his crack use after he got a 32-hour “cocaine nosebleed” while filming a movie.

“I didn’t view the nosebleed disaster as a sign that it was time to quit,” he wrote. “I saw it as proof that the drug needed a much better delivery system.”

Sheen’s Morphine Habit

During a trip to Arizona for a film shoot, Sheen met a nurse who introduced him to a “synthetic morphine habit” by the name of Nubain.

“I had never f***ed around with heroin or needles. It scared the hell outta me for the same reason it scares the hell outta most sane people: death,” he wrote, explaining that Nubain “was an IV drug very similar to morphine” that “could be just as fun as a few stiff drinks but without the nasty hangover.”

The drug was “unlike anything I’d felt previously,” Sheen wrote. He referred to Nubain as “freedom juice,” since it could “help me put down the pipe and cut back on the booze.”

His Overdose

Sheen was detoxing just before his 1998 overdose.

After shooting two doses of cocaine into his arm “they both hit me at the same time,” Sheen wrote.

“The room began to spin. My ears filled with echo that shifted into warble. My heart rate doubled and tried to pump even faster,” he recalled. “My breath was tight and wouldn’t travel past the bottom of my neck.”

Sheen “could barely walk” as he tried to go down the stairs and eventually called his bodyguard’s name. “My vision began to sparkle into black cubes.”

Bringing Contraband Into Rehab

When he was in rehab on a separate occasion after the overdose, Sheen contacted his bodyguard, Zip, to smuggle crack into the facility.

“It was just past midnight, and the window right before shift change gave us an extra six or seven minutes before the night crew grabbed their clipboards and began the rounds,” Sheen wrote, explaining that Zip had “bagged up the contents from the one drawer at the condo I knew held everything we needed to get frosty,” which included “a fat bag of rock and two lighters — but only one pipe.”

The Testosterone Cream

Sheen’s infamous 2011 interview on 20/20 was fueled by what he called “Krazy Kreem” in the book.

“It was ‘legal.’ I’d been using it to get my body back into shape, not knowing that at the same time, I was being shape-shifted. That drug is known to metabolize into the identical psych profile an anabolic steroid will produce,” he wrote. “I’ve heard great things about that drug when used responsibly, but let’s keep it real-drugs and responsible are two words I never made a habit of cramming into the same sentence.”