Charlie Sheen Reveals Mexican Cartel Ended Ties over His Cocaine Use

The "Two and a Half Men" alum revealed the pivotal moment while promoting his new book, "The Book of Sheen." He credits his daughter Sami for helping him realize he needed to get sober.

Charlie Sheen is getting candid about the extent of his drug use, sharing new revelations. The actor, who has been sober since 2017, spoke about being cut off by his supplier during an interview on "60 Minutes Australia," published Sunday, September 21.

He told host Amelia Adams that at one point in his drug use, the Mexican cartel refused to sell him cocaine. "The cartel cut you off?" Adams asked, visibly bewildered. "They did, they did," Sheen replied.

"They had never seen someone acquiring that kind of weight, you know?" he explained. "And so the only other people that they were delivering that kind of weight to were dealers and they thought I was dealing on the side."

Adams then asked if it was true that he smoked seven-gram rocks of crack cocaine. "Well, we never like took one out of the pipe and put it on a scale," Sheen said. "However, um yeah, that was the amount that was cooked to get it into that form."

Adams noted that Sheen was "lucky to be alive" — and the 60-year-old agreed. Sheen's confession comes after he opened up about his sobriety in his new memoir, "The Book of Sheen." He quit drugs and alcohol in 2017 after decades of abuse.

He previously opened up about the moment that prompted him to reevaluate his life and make some major changes. "One morning I'd forgotten my daughter had an appointment I'd promised to drive her to, and I'd already had a couple of pops that day," he told PEOPLE in 2023, referring to his daughter Sami, 21, whom he shares with his ex-wife Denise Richards.

Sheen said he had to call a friend to drive them. "We got her there on time, but it broke my heart because she was in the backseat and I could just tell she was thinking, 'Why isn't dad driving?' So I got home and sat with that for the rest of the day," he recalled.

He quit drinking cold turkey the next morning. He shared that, by then, he had already stopped using drugs. He hasn't looked back since.