Charlie Sheen has opened up about a heartbreaking moment of letting his daughter down that sparked his almost six years of sobriety so far.
The former Two and a Half Men actor, 58, had famously battled with substance addiction for many years, which even saw him hospitalized after suffering a stroke in 1998 due to abusing cocaine.
He has often addressed his issues with alcohol and drugs, but made the choice to change his life almost six years ago and go sober.
While quitting any addiction can be difficult, it was one particular moment of letting his daughter down that sparked him to take that crucial step and get sober.
The actor, who will mark six years of sobriety in January, has five children from three women, and opened up about how his life has changed.
He told People: "Next month I'll be six years sober. I have a very consistent lifestyle now. It's all about single dad stuff, and raising my 14-year-old twin boys Max and Bob.
"Now I wake up early, around 4:30 or 5 AM, get an early jump on the news, work out, answer emails. Then I get the kids up and help them with their morning routine - if you can call it a routine."
This mundane suburban lifestyle could not be more different from the life Charlie was living just a few years earlier, as he admitted: "I loved drinking in the morning. Loved some scotch in the coffee."
However, it was one morning in 2017 that sparked him to change his life, after breaking a promise to one of his daughters.
He explained: "One morning I'd forgotten my daughter had an appointment I'd promised to drive her to, and I'd already had a couple of pops that day.
"So had to call my friend Tony to take us. We got her there on time, but it broke my heart because she was in the backseat and I could just tell she was thinking, 'Why isn't dad driving?'
"So I got home and sat with that for the rest of the day. And the next morning I just stopped."
Going cold turkey may be difficult, but Charlie stuck with it, with that particular interaction being the reminder he needed that there were more important things in his life than alcohol or drugs.
"I think the first month I was like, I'm going to have give it a month, just see if I feel any better, and if my interactions with those that are closest to me improve," he revealed.
"And they did. And I'm like, all right, I'm going to go another month. And then it got traction. I had momentum."
He added: "There was just instant evidence that this was the side I needed to be on. I couldn't be in denial about it anymore."
With several years of consistent sobriety under his belt, Charlie is now planning to get back into acting in the future, too.
