Actor Charlie Sheen is opening up about why he determined to inform the world about his HIV prognosis in 2015, admitting the emotional weight of holding onto the key prompted him extra hurt than good.

Earlier this yr, the 60-year-old delved even deeper into his private life in his Netflix docuseries, “aka Charlie Sheen,” the place he mentioned his previous sexual relationships with males.

Whereas talking with Graham Bensinger on “In Depth,” the “Two and a Half Males” star mentioned his memoir, “The E-book of Sheen,” wherein he particulars his behind-the-scenes battle with HIV.

In keeping with Sheen, hiding his prognosis was a a lot more durable process than dwelling with the sickness, which is why he revealed all of it throughout his 2015 look on “The Right this moment Present.”

“That aspect of it, that was actually troublesome as a result of there was lots of nefarious conduct,” he stated.

Sheen revealed that one other problem he confronted whereas maintaining his prognosis beneath wraps was being “extorted” by folks for his or her private acquire.

“I used to be identical to, ‘All proper, the one method to make this go away is to do what I did on the freaking ‘Right this moment’ present. On reside tv, inform the world,” he defined.

Previous to revealing his prognosis to the world, Sheen admitted he knew one thing was incorrect along with his physique due to the extreme complications he was experiencing.

“I assumed it was a mind tumor or spinal one thing or liver most cancers or one thing terminal for positive, which is why I did not wish to go to the hospital. And I feel I prevented it for like a day and a half, you realize, and at last simply needed to go,” he stated.

As soon as he obtained the prognosis from medical professionals, the “Anger Administration” performer realized he might lastly transfer ahead.

“However once you get the outcomes, once you get the information, you are like, ‘Oh, OK. All proper. Let’s simply take it, simply take this in.’ You recognize, it is not one of the best information. However there was different information that might have been so much worse, you realize?” he stated.

He continued, “I had some perspective to take a look at it as, OK, I assumed it was going to be this, and it is not. In order that’s a reasonably large win that I will take in the midst of this large loss.”

Forward of his memoir’s launch, Sheen spoke with PEOPLE about a few of his life experiences, together with sleeping with males.

The actor defined that he not wished to cover from his previous or “let it personal me,” later describing talking about it as “f-cking liberating.”

“It is like a practice did not come via the aspect of the restaurant. A f-cking piano did not fall out of the sky. Nobody bumped into the room and shot me,” Sheen added.

Sheen shared that his need to have romantic relationships with males started whereas he was utilizing illicit medication, saying, “That is what began it.”