Charlie Sheen recalls the moment he told his father Martin he was HIV Positive
Former Two and a Half Men actor insists he has become a better dad since his diagnosis
CHARLIE Sheen revealed his HIV diagnosis to his father Martin Sheen to stop him berating him about his alcohol addiction.
The former Two and a Half Men star found out he was HIV Positive in 2011, with the news only being made public last year when Charlie went on live TV in America to address the rumours surrounding his health.
The 50-year-old's loved ones already knew about his condition, but during a chat with Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain on Monday, Charlie recalled the exact moment he stopped his father in his tracks with his bombshell news.
He said: "We got into a debate one night, and he was talking about AA [Alcoholics Anonymous] and all that sort of stuff.
"And he kept talking about 'the disease of alcoholism' and I hadn't told him yet and I said, 'hey pop you wanna hear about a real fricking disease?' and that's when I told him, and he's never brought up AA again!"
Charlie - who has battled alcohol and drug addiction in the past - added that his 75-year-old father was stunned by the news, but quickly pledged to do whatever he could to help his son.
He said: "You could hear the universe just...blink, you could hear everything pause.
"And he was like 'Oh, wow, jeez kid, well whatever you need from me I'll jump on my fastest horse."
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Charlie admitted to Piers that its his family - including his five children - that he worries about most as opposed to himself, adding: "It's this weird thing because I always know that I'm going to be OK, it's others I worry about, my loved ones, my children, so how can I serve them?
"So I'm always at the end of the list."
Charlie has daughter Cassandra,31, from his relationship with his high school girlfriend, as well as daughters Sam, 12, and Lola, 10, from his marriage to actress Denise Richards.
He also has seven-year-old twin sons from his third marriage to Brooke Mueller and Charlie insists his health diagnosis has made him re-evaluate his life and refocus on being a good parent to his five kids.
He said: "Just in my availability and the condition I show up in.
"And there's this new thing that dawned on me, I should have learned this a thousand years ago that the morning belongs to the night before.
"So if I hang out with some buddies or watch at movie at 3am fine, but if I want to pick my kids up at five and deliver them to school, they deserve the version of me that ensures that.
He added: "I'm going to spend the next 40 or 50 years or whatever unlearning the things I thought I knew."
Piers interviewed Charlie after his sell out appearance at a packed West End theatre on Sunday night where the pair took part in a Q&A, and Charlie insisted he was telling the truth when he recently told The Sun that he had only had unprotected sex twice before he found out he was HIV Positive.
He said: "It was 100 per cent honest yeah.
"But then it's like those couple times I didn't it's who knows? Is that the moment the thing happened, I don't know.
"But what people need to focus on and understand as absolute truth is I've infected no one, there's no one coming at me saying, 'Oh you know...' That has not happened."