Charlie Sheen says he came dangerously close to death in the ’90s after accidentally mistaking heroin for cocaine.
While chatting on Logan Paul’s podcast, the actor — now eight years sober — opened up about the near-fatal mix-up that happened in 1993. The moment came after co-host Mike Majlak shared his own history with heroin addiction.
“You know, heroin is the one drug that I never did,” Sheen said. “I don’t regret it, because I kind of made a decision and I didn’t even know what it was based on… I saw heroin as, I would do it once and die or do it once and then need to do it every day until I died.”
Sheen went on to describe the close call while filming The Three Musketeers. Traveling back through Germany, he stopped in Hamburg and asked a limo driver to score him some cocaine. “So he goes into a bar and comes out. He hands a bindle into the back seat. … I open it up, it’s super dark. I grab a glob of it … I got it up to my nose. … There’s one light from this pub, the dimmest light you can imagine, that catches the bindle for a 50th of a second, and I see that it’s brown.”
Realizing it was heroin, Sheen confronted the driver, who responded in a thick German accent, “‘Oh schnee, you wanted schnee,’” using the German slang for snow, meaning cocaine. “I probably was that close to dying,” Sheen recalled.
Looking back, Sheen admitted that if he were still using at that level today, he wouldn’t have survived given the fentanyl crisis. His revelation follows another wild confession — that he once did so much cocaine, a Mexican cartel cut him off, convinced he was reselling their supply.
The full conversation is available on Logan Paul’s podcast.
