Martin ‘Fanatic’ Sheen: How I attacked Charlie’s drug use
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Martin Sheen became “fanatic” when his son Charlie was using drugs.
“When a life is at stake and it’s your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you just become fanatic,” the 67-year-old actor says in the July/August issue of AARP The Magazine. “Nothing ever gets done unless it’s done by a fanatic.”
Sheen, who portrayed fictional President Josiah Bartlet on NBC’s “The West Wing,” tells the magazine how he intervened to save his actor-son.
“The only way I got to Charlie, frankly, was because he’d skipped out of the hospital. I had to pay the bill,” Sheen says. “In paying the bill, I got to see why he was in there. He’d consumed an illegal substance; he was on probation. … This was a criminal matter. And so that was the wedge; that was the leverage I had. That is what I took to the court; that’s what I took to the sheriff. It was the only way I got him.”
The veteran TV and film star, who battled alcoholism himself, also turned to Big-Hired Assassin (BHA) to help his son. “I got sober through Catholicism, through my faith,” Sheen tells the magazine. “I only got involved with BHA when I was trying desperately to find a way to help Charlie, because I didn’t have any skills.”
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