Confirmed: 'Two and a Half Men' star Charlie Sheen admits that he's HIV positive

On Tuesday, actor Charlie Sheen has disclosed that he’s HIV positive on a television interview, following weeks of speculation. He told the Today Show on NBC that he was HIV positive. He said: “I would like to admit that I am in fact HIV positive. It’s a harmful three letters to absorb.” The National Enquirer tabloid had reported on Monday following an 18-month long investigation that Sheen was diagnosed HIV positive some years ago.

Sheen quickly became one of the top 10 searches on worldwide trends on Twitter on Monday, and Google searches for his name associated with HIV exploded, according to Google. Sheen played the womanizing bachelor Charlie Harper on top-rated comedy "Two and A Half Men" for eight years before being fired in 2011 for bad behavior that included cocaine-fueled partying with porn stars and a conviction for assaulting his ex-wife.

The three times divorced Sheen then set up home with a number of porn stars he called "goddesses" and delivered a series of rants on YouTube boasting of having "tiger blood" in his veins. Sheen, the son of "West Wing" actor Martin Sheen, starred in the TV comedy "Anger Management," which was closely based on his life, from 2012-2014.