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Charlie Sheen has announced he is HIV positive.
The 50-year-old actor revealed he was diagnosed four years ago after initially believing he had a brain tumour.
Speaking in an interview on the Today show, Charlie said: 'I'm here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive. It's a hard three letters to absorb' and explained that he had been the victim of numerous blackmail plots since he was diagnosed.
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Refusing to admit how many people he had paid off, he said: 'That's money you have taken from my kids'.
Charlie Sheen. Photo: Getty Images.
Charlie - who has been open about using prostitutes - said one sex worker tried to blackmail him after finding his HIV medication in his bathroom.
While it has been claimed that Charlie - who doesn't 'entirely know' how he contracted the disease - kept his diagnosis from a number of his sexual partners, he denied this in a letter to Today's Matt Lauer.
The show's account tweeted a section of the letter in which Charlie said: 'I always led with condoms and honesty when it came to my condition.'
He admitted to having unprotected sex twice since he found out about his condition but added: 'they were under the care of my doctor'.
Charlie's revelation comes after the National Enquirer and RadarOnline outed him as HIV positive on Monday.
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