Charlie Sheen‘s drug addiction had many people around him concerned — including the Mexican cartel.
During the Sunday, September 21, episode of Australia’s 60 Minutes, Sheen recalled being cut off by the cartel after he started buying too much cocaine.
“The cartel cut you off?” interviewer Amelia Adams asked, according to the Daily Mail. Sheen, 60, replied, “They did, they did. They had never seen someone acquiring that kind of weight.”
Sheen said the amount of drugs he requested became a red flag, adding, “The only other people that they were delivering that kind of weight to were dealers. They thought I was dealing on the side.”
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After being asked if he ever smoked “seven-gram rocks of crack cocaine,” Sheen recalled once joking he was “going to need a bigger pipe.”
“Well, we never took one out and put it on a scale,” he added. “But that was the amount that was cooked to get it into that form.”
Sheen’s drug confessions have been making headlines after he recently got candid about his addiction battle in his memoir, The Book of Sheen, and in his tell-all Netflix documentary, aka Charlie Sheen. The actor’s former drug dealer Marco was part of the doc and told director Andrew Renzi about his attempts to get Sheen off crack by cleaning up the drugs.
“Apparently it’s just extra baking soda every time. Not to give too much of an infomercial on how to cook crack, but you mix baking soda and cocaine together and you create crack,” Renzi told Deadline earlier this month. “So [Marco] just kept making more and more with baking soda. Eventually there was just no crack, no cocaine in it. Charlie was just smoking baking soda.”
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Renzi was also asked for his opinion on how Sheen is doing now.
“My perspective is [that] he is arguably, at least from a public figure perspective, the biggest emblem of an addict that’s still alive. He went as deep as you can go without dying,” the director noted. “For the past eight years, he was not only just figuring that out for himself, but not trying to do the thing that he had always done … that’s to re-enter the public conversation, get another role. He truly went away to figure this out. And that’s pretty rare.”
Renzi continued: “Eight years is a heck of a stretch for anyone to go and reconcile with those things. So I’d have to say yes. I felt like when I was sitting across from him, I always thought, this is a person who’s honest, who maybe isn’t going to give everybody what they want, but he’s here and he’s present and he’s telling his own truth. That to me is a very specific type of success story.”
