By Zoe Papadakis | Tuesday, 07 October 2025 12:55 PM EDT
Charlie Sheen has apologized to fellow actor Dax Shepard for an incident that occurred two decades ago. The 60-year-old actor joined the Oct. 6 episode of Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast and revealed his lingering regret over the past transgression.
“There’s something I’ve been carrying around,” Sheen said. “I was a [expletive] to you one night. Not cool.” Shepard, 50, responded with surprise, asking, “Tell me, because it’s so bizarre. I don’t remember that.”
Sheen recounted the incident occurred around Halloween when they were discussing the challenges of celebrating the holiday with young children. “We were sharing how Halloween with super tiny children is not fun. It’s just not,” Sheen said. “I mean, it is, and it isn’t. It’s fun for the photo on the fridge later. I was kind of in a pissy mood in my share, and I was bitching about Halloween and just zero gratitude about anything.”
According to Sheen, Shepard had described a more enjoyable experience that year, which prompted his remark. “He was like, ‘Yeah, no, we had a great time. Went to a couple of parties this time,’ and you were like giving the fun version of Halloween,” Sheen said. “In the middle, I said, ‘Try it with [expletive] kids, dude.’ And it was so inappropriate and unnecessary and uncalled for. So 20 years later, apologies.”
Shepard acknowledged the apology, stating, “No problem. There’s a lot of people I’ve made amends to. Thank God I did. And they were really hurt and that repair had to happen.”
Last month, during an appearance on “60 Minutes,” Sheen discussed how a Mexican drug cartel once cut him off from supplies during the height of his addiction, believing he was trafficking rather than using the drugs. The interview, conducted by journalist Amelia Adams, is part of the publicity campaign for his memoir “The Book of Sheen” and a Netflix documentary titled “aka Charlie Sheen.”
Adams appeared stunned when Sheen revealed that dealers had refused to sell to him. “The cartel cut you off?” she asked. “They did,” Sheen replied. “They had never seen someone acquiring that kind of weight, you know, and so the only other people that they were delivering that kind of weight to were dealers, and they thought I was dealing on the side.”
Zoe Papadakis is a Newsmax writer based in South Africa with two decades of experience specializing in media and entertainment. She has been in the news industry as a reporter, writer, and editor for newspapers, magazines, and websites.
