Charlie Sheen appeared on The Dr. Oz Show on Monday, where he told Dr. Mehmet Oz he decided to go off of his HIV medication in search of an alternative method to cure the disease.
The actor, who was diagnosed four years ago and went public with it in November, said he’s stopped taking his medicine for about a week now and has been being treated alternatively in Mexico. However, he's now back on his medicine.
"There's a host of side-effects that are manageable," Sheen told Dr. Oz, adding he was “just curious, as I think a lot of people are” about what would happen if he stopped taking them, TheWrap reports.
"You know, you ingest something every day, and you feel a certain way,” he continued. “I just got curious about what I might feel like off this stuff. And then, if what was being professed, if any part of it was true, then I thought it was worth exploring."
Sheen went on to say it doesn’t “faze” him that something could go wrong. “Am I risking my life?” he asked. “Sure. So what? I was born dead. That part of it doesn’t faze me at all.”
He revealed his doctor in Mexico is Dr. Sam Chachoua and he also admitted his non-detectable levels he had achieved while on the medicine had changed. “I know this is an experiment, that I took a stroll down a different path," he said. "But yeah, I’d been non-detectable and non-detectable and checking the blood every week, and then found out that the numbers were back up.”
Sheen's manager, Mark Burg, told People, "Charlie is back on his meds. He tried a cure from a doctor in Mexico but the minute the numbers went up, he started taking his medicine."