High-res gq: Coke, Hookers, Rehab, Repeat Sheen says that for too long he was “being the guy that I thought they needed me to be and always feeling like I was the last person taken care of in the mix, you know. Always. Always the last guy considered. And listen, that’s over. It’s done. It’s pissing everybody off, because they always had an expectation based on predictable reactions. And now they don’t, and they don’t know what to do.” It’s hard to know who “they” are. His ex-wives? His parents? His favorite porn stars? I ask him, after all the hard work he’s done getting clean in the past, what is it that keeps luring him back to the party? “All that shit was inauthentic,” he says. The partying? I ask. “No,” he says. “The fucking AA shit. The sobriety shit. It was always for other people. I just wanted to get a job back and get enough money to tell everybody to go fuck themselves and then roll like Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra—the good parts of those guys.” Is he saying that this time he’s approaching rehab more authentically? I ask. Or is he saying the opposite: that rehab itself is inauthentic? “I’m going to ride the winds of the universe,” Sheen says mischievously, and for a moment he sounds like Kurtz’s sidekick, the strung-out photographer-philosopher played by Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now. “How about that? How about that?” Because of Charlie Sheen’s ongoing, live streaming self-destructo-thon, we decided to scramble and post GQ correspondent Amy Wallace’s forthcoming inside look at Sheen’s life. Consider it a very early sneak peak at our April 2011 issue. **Note: that’s a photo illustration—an excellent one by Peter Rad—and not an actual shot of Charlie Sheen. Although it totally could be, right?** ***Note: That’s not Charlie Sheen—but that’s some nice hair. Congrats, Kris.

gq:

Coke, Hookers, Rehab, Repeat

Sheen says that for too long he was “being the guy that I thought they needed me to be and always feeling like I was the last person taken care of in the mix, you know. Always. Always the last guy considered. And listen, that’s over. It’s done. It’s pissing everybody off, because they always had an expectation based on predictable reactions. And now they don’t, and they don’t know what to do.”

It’s hard to know who “they” are. His ex-wives? His parents? His favorite porn stars? I ask him, after all the hard work he’s done getting clean in the past, what is it that keeps luring him back to the party? “All that shit was inauthentic,” he says. The partying? I ask. “No,” he says. “The fucking AA shit. The sobriety shit. It was always for other people. I just wanted to get a job back and get enough money to tell everybody to go fuck themselves and then roll like Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra—the good parts of those guys.”

Is he saying that this time he’s approaching rehab more authentically? I ask. Or is he saying the opposite: that rehab itself is inauthentic? “I’m going to ride the winds of the universe,” Sheen says mischievously, and for a moment he sounds like Kurtz’s sidekick, the strung-out photographer-philosopher played by Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now. “How about that? How about that?”

Because of Charlie Sheen’s ongoing, live streaming self-destructo-thon, we decided to scramble and post GQ correspondent Amy Wallace’s forthcoming inside look at Sheen’s life. Consider it a very early sneak peak at our April 2011 issue.
**Note: that’s a photo illustration—an excellent one by Peter Rad—and not an actual shot of Charlie Sheen. Although it totally could be, right?**

***Note: That’s not Charlie Sheen—but that’s some nice hair. Congrats, Kris.

Notes

  1. decafavailable reblogged this from gq
  2. harrying reblogged this from gq
  3. whatisfreedumb reblogged this from markcoatney and added:
    the man and the legend all in one.
  4. nataliebestx reblogged this from keepwinning
  5. keepwinning reblogged this from nedhepburn
  6. fleshpinata reblogged this from punkyberry
  7. imbloggingme reblogged this from bangbangmandown
  8. hedgewytch reblogged this from gq
  9. dyingisadayworthlivingfor reblogged this from capt-spacedick
  10. cigiszunet reblogged this from gq
  11. punkyberry reblogged this from pervotron3000
  12. vanityflair reblogged this from gq
  13. monolithinc reblogged this from gq
  14. kluvrockin reblogged this from things-inbetween
  15. jennahawkins reblogged this from gq
  16. foreveo reblogged this from gq
  17. things-inbetween reblogged this from bsig and added:
    That first paragraph is how I feel half the time. Pretty good stuff I read so far.
  18. xoxokati reblogged this from gq
  19. bsig reblogged this from gq and added:
    Half the reason I subscribed to GQ was for the articles. And this one is early. How do you think I feel right now? (I’ll...
  20. gq posted this