Charlie Sheen’s ex-girlfriend, Bree Olson, is livid that the actor never told her about being HIV-positive.
The two dated four years ago. That’s also when Sheen first learned of his diagnosis, which he revealed on the Today Show Tuesday morning.
He admitted to Today co-host Matt Lauer that he’s had unprotected sex with two partners since being diagnosed, but both of them reportedly knew about his condition ahead of time. He also added, without clarification, that: “They were under the care of my doctor.”
When asked if he had transmitted the disease to others, Sheen declared, “Impossible. Impossible,” and insisted he had informed every sexual partner of his condition beforehand.
Olson says that’s “b******t.”
“He never said anything to me,” the 29-year-old, audibly shaken, said on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show Tuesday.
“He doesn’t even value my life.”
Olson, a former porn star, claims she and Sheen occasionally had unprotected sex during their roughly yearlong relationship which she ended in April 2011.
She also alleges that Sheen insisted on using lambskin condoms, which do not protect against STDs such as HIV.
She decided to get tested after media began to contact her a few days ago.
Olson showed Stern her HIV-negative test results.
Since Olson’s allegations, TMZ has reported that the 50-year-old actor apparently didn’t know he had contracted the virus until about a couple weeks after finishing a tour in May 2011.
The National Enquirer first reported Sheen’s health status Monday following an 18-month investigation. The tabloid claims the actor had been keeping his HIV diagnosis a secret for years.
Sheen has not address when, or by whom, he may have been infected but admitted that he has been extorted since being diagnosed.
During Tuesday’s interview Sheen said one reason for going public with his condition was to put a stop to the shakedowns from prostitutes and others. He said one prostitute took a photo of the HIV-related drugs in his medicine cabinet and threatened to sell that photo to the tabloids.
He said he has paid as much as $10 million to buy their silence, and confessed he’s not doing well financially.
“Are you still paying these people?” Lauer asked him.
“Not after today I’m not,” said Sheen.
Asked by Lauer if he expected “a barrage of lawsuits” from past sexual partners alleging he infected them, Sheen answered, “I’m sure that’s next.”
At least six women have already lawyered up and plan to sue Sheen for intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud, and sexual battery, according to TMZ.
“The women claim they had both protected and unprotected sex with Sheen, as recently as last month, and he did not disclose his HIV status,” the site reports.
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Sheen’s ex-wife Brooke Mueller — whom he was with from 2008 to 2011, and reportedly called after learning he was HIV-positive — revealed on Tuesday that she and their two children are HIV-negative.
His second ex-wife, actress Denise Richards, also apparently knew about Sheen’s HIV status.
In California, anyone with a communicable disease who “willfully exposes another person” can be sentenced to six months in jail.
If someone knows they have HIV and has sex with another person with the intent to transmit the disease, they can face up to six years in prison.
With files from The Associated Press and Adam Frisk, Global News
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