when did charlie sheen get hiv

Charlie Sheen was diagnosed with HIV in 2011. However, he only publicly revealed his HIV-positive status in November 2015, about four years after his diagnosis. He disclosed that he was diagnosed after experiencing severe symptoms that initially made him think he had a brain tumor. He also revealed that during the years he kept his diagnosis private, he paid millions of dollars in hush money to keep the information from becoming public due to extortion attempts.