Jenny McCarthy is clarifying her statements on finding out Charlie Sheen is HIV-positive and declaring she should’ve known about it before playing his love interest on Two and a Half Men.
As we previously reported, on her SiriusXM radio show Dirty, Sexy, Funny, McCarthy said Sheen’s condition would’ve been “valuable information” to her when she guest-starred on the sitcom from 2007 to 2011.
In a tweet on Thursday, she explained that her intentions for her comments were not about the possibility of being put at risk but the “double standard” that goes with it.
“The point I raised about Charlie Sheen on my Sirius radio show, had nothing to do with whether or not I think he put me at risk," she wrote.
On her show she talked about having to disclose something as little as having cold sores, and she wonders why he didn’t have to do the same.
"Yet an actor who interacts physically with dozens of actresses in intimate scenes, is not required to disclose that he has HIV?” she asked.
“I am very aware that HIV is not spread through kissing, but I also believe that if an actress has to disclose all of her business before kissing a male costar, that actor should be required to disclose something [as] major as an HIV infection too."