Charlie Sheen Rejects Hollywood’s Groupthink, Calls Out Legacy Media to Megyn Kelly [WATCH]

Charlie Sheen outlined his changing political views and growing distrust of legacy media during a recent conversation with Megyn Kelly, explaining that he began reexamining his beliefs after feeling disillusioned during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Sheen said the decision led him to seek out new information, conduct his own research, and question narratives he previously accepted.

Kelly opened the exchange by asking, “Are you getting more comfortable with your politics and expressing them?”

Sheen responded, “I am, and it’s I think I talked to you about this early on. It just I had to feel something different. Because, you know, I think we, all, or a lot of us, remain beholden to the structure, you know, the structure of the house that we were raised in. And, yeah, okay, for a while, but then, you know, I’ve paid the most taxes of anybody in my fucking family.”

Kelly replied, “That’ll do it.”

Sheen said he reached a point where he could no longer continue his work—developing a documentary, writing a book, and launching his non-alcoholic beer brand Wild AF—while feeling the same sense of hopelessness he experienced earlier in Trump’s presidency.

“What I couldn’t do, because I was about to do the doc and start the book while, at the same time, you know, trying to bring an NA beer to the public, you know, with wild AF, and we have it’s currently shipping. So I said, There’s no way I can tackle any of this with the kind of just focus and motivation determination, if I feel like I did during Trump’s first term, right? I was not going to go to bed every night feeling fucking hopeless. I was not going to go to bed every night being told things were, you know…”

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Kelly interjected, “Catastrophic?”

Sheen answered, “Catastrophic, yeah, the end is nigh.”

Sheen said he decided to deliberately change his information sources. “And I thought, all right, I’m gonna, I’m gonna conduct an experiment. Literally, I’m, I’m going to change the channel. I’m going to do my own research, like I’ve done with everything my entire life. I’m going to listen to other voices. Thank you. I’m going to I’m going to explore. I’m going to explore hearing both sides of the goddamn story, you know, because what I was, you know, so hypnotized by, in some ways, can be described as state run media. I’m sorry, but it can. Legacy media is very much like that. And I said, Okay, all right, enough of that, enough of that. I’m going to change the channel, hear some different voices, and do the research and the things that I discovered and the things that I started to really unearth. You know, it was just, it was not just one of those moments. It was like months of those moments of oh my gosh.”

Sheen said the process forced him to confront how easily he had accepted certain narratives in the past.

“And I felt really stupid. I don’t have a fancier way to describe it. I felt really stupid, yeah, just some of the stuff I’d bought into and some of the stuff I was worshiping and some of the people I was hating because I was told I was supposed to hate them.”

Sheen’s comments reflect a broader reassessment of political and media narratives that he said began when he stepped outside the information sources he had long relied on.

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CHARLIE SHEEN: “I FELT STUPID FOR BELIEVING THE LEGACY MEDIA LIES”

Charlie Sheen spilled the tea, admitting he flipped the script on his politics after feeling “hopeless” during Trump’s first term.

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