Charlie Sheen admits he is HIV-positive

Former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen said on Tuesday he is HIV-positive.

Sheen, 50, told NBC’s Today show in a television interview that he was diagnosed about four years ago.

“I am here to admit I am HIV-positive," Sheen said. “It’s a hard three letters to absorb.”

Sheen, who is three times divorced, played the womanising bachelor Charlie Harper on top-rated US comedy series Two and a Half Men for eight years before being fired in 2011 for bad behaviour that included cocaine-fuelled partying with porn stars and a conviction for assaulting his ex-wife. – AFP