Charlie Sheen says he was raised in a nudist household
A new Netflix documentary reveals an unexpected chapter in the actor’s early life
A new Netflix documentary series, aka Charlie Sheen, has surfaced an unexpected detail about the actor’s childhood: Sheen says his parents practiced nudism when he was young, recalling that he occasionally saw them nude at home during what he describes as a short-lived period of family nudism.
Sheen shares the memory early in the two-part documentary, noting that he was around five years old when he “walked into the kitchen” to find both parents unclothed. He characterizes the period as lasting “maybe a month, or five,” and the film does not present it as a defining element of his upbringing so much as an anecdote from a household experimenting with alternative lifestyle norms during the era. Still, the admission has caught some public attention, largely because it comes from a figure whose adult controversies have long overshadowed the quieter corners of his past.
The series, directed by Andrew Renzi, focuses primarily on Sheen’s rise in Hollywood, his public unraveling, and his efforts toward recovery. Coverage of his comments about nudism has so far relied entirely on Sheen’s own account; there is no independent documentation to confirm the extent of his parents’ participation in nudism, nor any indication that it was a sustained family practice. Yet the mention marks the first time we are aware that the well-known Hollywood figure has publicly linked his early life—and his well-known Hollywood family—to casual family nudism. 🪐
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Of course it depends on tone but these statements can be very helpful to normalize naturism or at least people feeling a bit more comfortable with their own bodies.