Charlie Sheen is pulling back the curtain on the demons that drove him to addiction, revealing that a lifelong struggle with stuttering first pushed him toward alcohol. “Drinking just... it softened the edges,” Sheen told Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan while promoting his new memoir, The Book of Sheen. “It gave me just freedom of speech.” Sheen said it wasn’t until his 2000 role on the sitcom Spin City that he finally opened up to colleagues about his stutter. “When I got the first script for Spin and I was going through it, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a problem. That’s gonna be a problem. I can’t say that,’” he recalled. “So yeah, when in doubt, just be human enough to be vulnerable, and to know that it’s OK to ask for help.” But by then, Sheen said, he was already deep in a spiral. He first tried crack cocaine in 1992, he said, just two years after his family staged an intervention that led to his first stint in rehab. “It’s hard to ask for help when somebody else has raised your hand for you,” Sheen admitted. “Wanting to always be in control of things, wanting to do things my way.”
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