Charlie Sheen knows the way he left Two and a Half Men wasn’t a winner, winner.

After all, the 60-year-old admitted his 2011 firing from the beloved sitcom over his public struggles with drug addiction is a dark spot in his memory.

"I regret that specifically still," Charlie told People in an interview published Sept. 3. "If I hadn't done what I had, I could be living a different life right now. All my problems wouldn't be what they are. But you just don't know that."

Since departing the series, which also starred Jon Cryerand Angus T. Jones, the Wall Street actor—who is dad to daughter Cassandra, 40, with ex Paula Profit, daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 20, with ex Denise Richards, and twin sons Bob and Max, 16, with ex Brooke Mueller—began his sobriety journey and has worked on tackling the destruction his addiction caused.

“Forgiveness is still an evolving thing,” Charlie continued. “I still get what I call the ‘shame shivers.’ These are the moments that hit me, of the heinous memories and choices and consequences. They’re getting farther in between, so I guess that’s progress.” 

He added, “What has been interesting about making amends is that most people have been like, ‘Hey yeah, we’re good man, but we hope you’ve also forgiven yourself.’”

And that personal healing has played a part in his new projects: a memoir titled The Book of Sheen and a Netflix documentary titled aka Charlie Sheen, releasing Sept. 9 and 10, respectively. 

“It’s not about me setting the record straight or righting all the wrongs of my past,” he explained. “Most of my 50s were spent apologizing to the people I hurt.”

“I also didn’t want to write from the place of being a victim,” he noted of his book. “I wasn’t, and I own everything I did. It’s just me, finally telling the stories in the way they actually happened. The stories I can remember, anyway.”

As for what’s next for the son of legendary actor Martin Sheen? He’s taking it one day at a time.

“I’m not calling all of this a comeback," Charlie said. "I’m calling it a reset. I’m just living for the next moment, whatever that turns out to be.”

Read on to learn more about Charlie and his famous family.

Charlie welcomed his first child Cassandra with his high school girlfriend Paula Profit in 1984 when he was only 19 years old.

While Cassandra has mostly stayed out of the spotlight, she was escorted down the aisle at her 2010 wedding to Casey Huffman by the Two and a Half Men star.

Charlie and now-ex-wife Denise Richards welcomed their eldest daughter together on March 9, 2004 two years after they wed.

Sami first entertained the limelight when she appeared on Denise's 2008 E! reality series Denise Richards: It's Complicated as a child.

Over a decade later, she made a name for herself in 2022 when she became an OnlyFans model shortly after turning 18. And the young star's career move has proved to be quite lucrative ever since.

“It opened so many doors for me,” Sami told People in February 2025, “and I've met really cool people doing it, and it's been really rewarding being my own boss and making my own hours and being able to do the things I've always wanted to do.”

Lola, who was just 3 when It's Complicated premiered, grew up to be very different than her boundary-pushing older sister.

Born June 1, 2005, she is a woman of God and a devout Christian.

“I can't explain it other than it literally was supernatural,” the restaurant hostess told People in an interview published Feb. 2025 after getting baptized in the church. “Jesus rescued me and he completely rewired my mind. He became my Savior, but also my best friend.”

The teen also shared how religion saved her from the darkness of depression.

“I felt so lost and hopeless, and was just doing my best to make it to the next day,” she admitted on Instagram. “He gave me a light, when I couldn’t find my own, and rescued me from the darkness. Jesus saved me from battling severe anxiety, and gave me a peace that makes no sense.”

Following her divorce from Charlie, newly-single Denise adopted her youngest daughter Eloise as an infant in 2011. In 2016, she was diagnosed with a deletion in chromosome 8 which caused developmental delays in walking and speech.

"Eloise is a bright light," the proud mom told People in March 2025. "She just loves everything, and she just embraces it and is just so happy. And the older girls see it too. Sometimes if they go at each other, [Eloise will] just be like... And I'm like, 'I know.' And then they laugh, and then they can kind of get past whatever stupid thing they're fighting about."

Charlie and third wife Brooke Mueller welcomed twin boys Bob Sheen and Max Sheen on March 14, 2009. The couple divorced less than two years later, with Bob and Max living with Denise during their parents' contentious split.

In 2023, Charlie got candid about raising his youngest children as a single dad.

"Their mom has been trying to figure some stuff out on her end, so she's not in the picture too much right now," he told People at the time. "They're really cool, really smart, and really funny."

While they mostly stay out of the spotlight, the twins made a rare appearance at their mom's 47th birthday celebration in August 2024.

Let's not forget that Charlie (real name Carlos Estévez) was born into a famous family. His dad is legendary actor Martin Sheen (born Ramon Estévez), whose Hollywood career spans more than six decades.

Charlie's older brother Emilio Estévez also followed in their father's footsteps having starred in classic films like The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Mission Impossible and The Mighty Ducks. 

The stars also share brother Ramon Estévez andsister Renée Estévez.

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