Charlie Sheen unveils memoir and Netflix doc on fame and sobriety

Charlie Sheen is once again putting his life on full display, releasing a candid memoir and a two-part Netflix documentary this week in which he revisits decades of stardom, addiction and family rifts and credits a painful moment with his daughter for finally prompting sobriety. The Book of Sheen A Memoir was published Sept. 9 and aka Charlie Sheen began streaming on Netflix Sept. 10, with the 60-year-old actor using both projects to recount episodes from his earliest years to his headline-making collapse and recovery.

In the memoir and the documentary Sheen details a string of episodes that shaped his public persona and private life. He writes that he missed the birth of his first daughter, Cassandra Estevez, in December 1984 and that his teenage sexual and drug exploits — including an account of losing his virginity to a Las Vegas escort and later encounters while using crack cocaine — are part of the book. He revisits his most notorious period around 2011, when erratic behavior, prolific drug use and incendiary interviews led to his firing from Two and a Half Men. He has also written about a near-fatal cocaine overdose, multiple stints in rehab and, in recent years, his...