Sheen discusses his HIV condition with Matt Lauer live from the "Today" show studio Sheen , 50, is one of Hollywood's best-known actors, starring in hit films like "Wall Street" and on the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men"
The actor Charlie Sheen told NBC's "Today Show" on Tuesday that he was diagnosed as HIV-positive about four years ago -- and that a few people who knew it demanded money from him to keep the secret.
"I'm here to admit that I am in fact HIV-positive," Sheen told NBC's Matt Lauer. "And I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories that are about the (alleged) threatening the health of so many others, which couldn't be farther from the truth."
"It's a hard three letters to absorb," he said. "It's a turning point in one's life."
He said he the diagnosis came after he suffered a series of migraines.
"After a battery of tests ... they walked in the room and said, 'Boom, here's what's going on,' " Sheen said.
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