# Blind Item, HIV+, Anyone Else Possible But Charlie Sheen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-item-hiv-anyone-else-possible-but-charlie-sheen/736553 "2015-11-03T20:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-item-hiv-anyone-else-possible-but-charlie-sheen/736553/81 "2015-11-18T02:42:54Z")
So did he reveal this now because he could no longer afford to pay the blackmail? Because he was paid an enormous amount to act in Two and a Half Men, but has pissed away millions since then. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-item-hiv-anyone-else-possible-but-charlie-sheen/736553/82 "2015-11-18T04:44:39Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > 4 years? Jesus. If he’s been having unprotected sex all that timer, then to hell with him. If that’s the case, I hope he dies cold and alone. I was actually much more surprised that he’s saying he’s **only** had it for four years. That means it was right about the time when he went crazy and got fired from his show and “Winning” and “Tiger blood” etc. I figured he had caught it in the 80s when people still did that sort of thing (unprotected sex). I don’t remember him ever being accused of being an IV drug user. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-item-hiv-anyone-else-possible-but-charlie-sheen/736553/83 "2015-11-18T05:05:49Z")
If I discovered I was HIV positive, I may panic, relapse into drugs and alcohol, and lash out with weird behaviour too. Actually, I probably wouldn’t do any of those, but I can kind of understand someone as unstable as Charlie Sheen doing that. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-item-hiv-anyone-else-possible-but-charlie-sheen/736553/84 "2015-11-18T07:49:30Z")
This is why speculation like this is dangerous. A lot of names got dragged through the mud here, undeservedly. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-item-hiv-anyone-else-possible-but-charlie-sheen/736553/85 "2015-11-18T21:40:14Z")
Statistically this is disturbing news - one out of two and a half men is HIV positive! ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-item-hiv-anyone-else-possible-but-charlie-sheen/736553/86 "2016-01-06T04:36:49Z")
**The Path to Charlie Sheen’s H.I.V. Disclosure** > **[The Path to Charlie Sheen’s H.I.V. Disclosure (Published 2016)](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/arts/television/the-path-to-charlie-sheens-hiv-disclosure.html)** > > To track the push and pull between Mr. Sheen and the media is to see behind the veil of how celebrity secrets are kept hidden and ultimately disclosed. Apparently he got tired of paying out so much money to keep it quiet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blind-item-hiv-anyone-else-possible-but-charlie-sheen/736553.md?page=4)