Charlie Sheen is sharing insight into why he missed the birth of his first daughter, Cassandra Estevez.
The actor, 60, recalled in The Book of Sheen: A Memoir, which was released Tuesday, September 9, a period of time when he began seeing his high school ex-girlfriend Paula Profit “for the late night physical benefits.”
Sheen noted that Profit was “all [he] knew” besides “Candy in real-Vegas and the L.A. Xpress on Pico Boulevard.” (Elsewhere in the memoir, Sheen revealed he had sex for the first time with “a gorgeous red-headed Vegas escort named Candy.”)
“[Paula’s] mom had a two-bedroom flat on the second floor of a building near Samohi,” he wrote in the memoir. “Paula’s room had a fire escape just outside of it that I’d scale for our late-night trysts. That went on for about a month until we dropped the birth control ball, and Paula clocked back in as a plus-one.”
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Sheen explained that Profit had just turned 19, while he was 18.
“Not exactly the life direction, at that moment, either of us saw for ourselves,” he wrote. “I pleaded my case, but she held firm. After a goodly amount of soul-searching, I came around a bit later. On December 12, 1984, sometime in the late afternoon, Paula gave birth to a healthy seven-pound baby girl named Cassandra.”
He continued, “An absolute gift to humanity. I didn’t attend the birth. My ‘a bit later’ didn’t turn the corner until after the new year. We’ve been good since — for the most part. (Not being f***ing married probably helped.)”
Sheen went on to welcome daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 20, with ex-wife Denise Richards — whom he was married to from 2002 to 2006 — and twin sons Bob and Max, 17, with third wife Brooke Mueller. Sheen and Mueller, 48, were together from 2008 to 2010. (He was first married to Donna Peele from 1995 to 1996.)
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“They’ve made me a better man,” he told In Touch months after his sons were born.
Sheen has been candid through the years about fatherhood, sharing a sweet moment with Casandra in 2010 when he walked her down the aisle to marry her childhood sweetheart, Casey Huffman. Three years later, Sheen became a grandfather when the couple welcomed daughter Luna.
“It’s impossibly a most wondrous day,” Charlie gushed to TMZ at the time while reflecting on the birth of his first grandchild. “My bucket list is a thimble!”
The Book of Sheen: A Memoir is out now.
