Charlie Sheen has been a divisive figure in the media for the last two decades, and for good reason. Once the highest-paid comedic actor in all of primetime, thanks to his work on Two and a Half Men, he plummeted to career lows due to his strange behavior at the height of the sitcom’s popularity. And his experiences with alcoholism and addiction have been well documented throughout his career.

In the two-part Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, premiering September 10, as well as in his memoir, The Book of Sheen, the actor reflects on his rapid ascent into Hollywood’s elite and his tumultuous descent. In a career plagued by sex scandals, arrests, and drug addiction, struggles that began at an early age, it seems that Sheen’s story is as much about survival as it is about self-destruction.

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