Charlie Sheen Hospitalized in Fair Condition After Overdose

Actor Charlie Sheen was hospitalized in fair condition after a drug overdose at his Agoura Hills home, officials and family members said Thursday.

“My son had a drug overdose,” his father, actor Martin Sheen, said during a news conference late Thursday. “But he’ll be fine. . . . He’s conscious and talking.”

The 32-year-old Sheen, star of such films as “Wall Street” and “Platoon,” was rushed by ambulance to Columbia Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.

“This is not an easy moment in our lives, but it’s a necessary one,” said a tearful Martin Sheen. “It is our hope that he will accept recovery and finally be free.”

The incident is the latest trouble for the younger Sheen.

In 1990, he checked into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility after reportedly suffering from exhaustion. In 1995, a woman sued Sheen, alleging that the actor struck her in the head several times when she refused to have sex with him. Later, in the trial of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, he admitted that he ordered her call girls at least 27 times, running up a tab of more than $50,000.

In 1996, Sheen renounced his party lifestyle, saying he was a born-again Christian and that fast living “was a lot of fun, but there is such a thing as too much fun.”