{"id":83859,"date":"2026-04-25T02:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/martin-sheen-skipped-charlie-sheen-doc-to-not-be-complicit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:54:38","slug":"martin-sheen-skipped-charlie-sheen-doc-to-not-be-complicit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/martin-sheen-skipped-charlie-sheen-doc-to-not-be-complicit\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Sheen Skipped Charlie Sheen Doc to Not Be &#8216;Complicit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Charlie Sheen<\/strong>\u2018s father, <strong>Martin Sheen<\/strong>, intentionally chose not to participate in his son\u2019s tell-all doc to not be \u201ccomplicit\u201d if it didn\u2019t go well.<\/p>\n<p>During a panel event for Netflix\u2019s <em>aka Charlie Sheen<\/em> on Wednesday, April 22, director <strong>Andrew Renzi<\/strong> addressed Martin\u2019s absence from the project, saying, \u201cThere was another thing that Martin said specifically that I will always really respect, just him being a father. He said, \u2018If this goes sideways, if you do him dirty\u2019 \u2014 basically without saying that because Martin Sheen would never talk about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renzi clarified that Martin, 85, wanted to prioritize supporting Charlie, 60.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He said], \u2018If this goes sideways, I need to be able to stand beside my son because I always have. And if I\u2019m in this thing, I can\u2019t, because I will have been complicit in this thing that you created,&#8217;\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Everything-Brooke-Mueller-and-Denise-Richards-Said-About-Marriages-to-Charlie-in-Doc-Feature.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Everything Brooke Mueller and Denise Richards Said About Marriages to Charlie in Doc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Everything-Brooke-Mueller-and-Denise-Richards-Said-About-Marriages-to-Charlie-in-Doc-Feature.jpg?quality=40&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Denise Richards, Brooke Mueller&#8217;s Marriage Revelations in Charlie Sheen Doc<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tCharlie Sheen\u2019s Netflix documentary included brutally honest revelations from his famous ex-wives Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller. Aka Charlie Sheen, which premiered on Wednesday, September 10, featured separate interviews with Richards, 54, and Mueller, 48, where they addressed the highs and lows of being with Sheen, 60. Richards and Sheen\u2019s youngest daughter, Lola, 20, and [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Renzi and Charlie acknowledged how some of his family, including brother <strong>Emilio Estevez<\/strong>, decided not to appear out of respect. Renzi recalled Estevez, 63, taking a step back because he \u201cwanted Charlie to have the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe felt they were my stories to tell,\u201d Charlie added before Renzi defended the family\u2019s decision, saying, \u201cIf I\u2019m putting myself in their shoes without them saying this directly to me, this is their life that they\u2019ve lived for a long time, and there was probably going to be a whole bunch of crap that they just didn\u2019t want to have to sit there and have to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite not being featured, Charlie got to hear feedback from his dad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Martin] saw it and loved it and was just, he was laughing, he was crying, he was so engaged and he comes up to me afterward and says, \u2018I\u2019m already in it. I\u2019d much rather be young, handsome in this thing than this guy right now. You don\u2019t need this old guy in your movie,&#8217;\u201d Charlie recalled about the first time his family came together to watch a cut of the film. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Well, beg to differ.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first part of the Netflix documentary, which premiered in September 2025, featured a message that read, \u201cMartin Sheen and Emilio Est\u00e9vez declined to participate.\u201d In the doc, Charlie was asked about their decision to opt out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmilio and Dad, they fully support me. They\u2019re rooting for me in ways you can\u2019t even imagine. But I can\u2019t expect people to revisit all the drug abuse and all the s***ty choices that hurt the people I love,\u201d he explained. \u201cWould I love them both in this? Absolutely. But I completely understand why they chose not to.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Denise-Richards-and-Ex-Charlie-Sheens-Teenage-Daughters-Family-Album-Parenting-Quotes-and-More.jpg?crop=0px%2C155px%2C750px%2C424px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Denise Richards and Ex Charlie Sheen's Teenage Daughters: Family Album, Parenting Quotes and More\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Denise-Richards-and-Ex-Charlie-Sheens-Teenage-Daughters-Family-Album-Parenting-Quotes-and-More.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Charlie Sheen\u2018s 5 Kids: A Guide to His Famous Family<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tCharlie Sheen comes from a famous family \u2014 and he\u2019s passing on the torch to daughters Cassandra Estevez, Sami Sheen and Lola Sheen, and twin sons Bob and Max Sheen. The Two and a Half Men alum became a father for the first time in 1984 when he welcomed Cassandra with his high school sweetheart, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Aka Charlie Sheen<\/em> highlighted the actor\u2019s rise to stardom and subsequent fall amid addiction struggles. Charlie\u2019s exes Denise Richards and <strong>Brooke Mueller<\/strong> were interviewed, as were <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em> creator <strong>Chuck Lorre<\/strong> and costar <strong>Jon Cryer<\/strong>. Charlie\u2019s older brother <strong>Ramon Est\u00e9vez<\/strong> was the only family member \u2014 outside of the actor\u2019s youngest daughter with Richards, Lola, and son with Mueller, Bob \u2014 to participate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Charlie said he hoped his dad still watched the doc. \u201cI think it is hard for sons to always share with their fathers what is truly in their hearts,\u201d he continued. \u201cI hope he sees some of this as the love letter to him that it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the two-part documentary, Charlie appeared to dedicate the project to his father after reflecting on their ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t imagine being my dad. I can\u2019t even imagine it. We banged heads a lot over the years. We haven\u2019t for a long time,\u201d he concluded. \u201cWe came to a place that\u2019s been beautiful. It has been nourishing. If I could put it into one word: gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Sheen\u2018s father, Martin Sheen, intentionally chose not to participate in his son\u2019s tell-all doc to not be \u201ccomplicit\u201d if it didn\u2019t go well. During a panel event for Netflix\u2019s aka Charlie Sheen on Wednesday, April 22, director Andrew Renzi addressed Martin\u2019s absence from the project, saying, \u201cThere was another thing that Martin said specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-trends-and-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2189732591.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}