Charlie's manager insists that the actor wasn't diagnosed until he left 'Two and a Half Men' and stopped working with Jenny McCarthy.
- Nov 19, 2015
AceShowbiz - Charlie Sheen's camp responded to Jenny McCarthy's criticism for not telling her about his HIV. She played his on-and-off girlfriend on "Two and a Half Men" from 2007 to 2011, but he insisted that he was only diagnosed after he left the show.
The manager said the actor couldn't tell his former onscreen love interest about his HIV because he hadn't been diagnosed back then. "Charlie was infected long after he left 'Two and a Half Men' and long after he worked with Jenny," Mark Burg told PEOPLE.
McCarthy previously said on her SiriusXM radio show, slamming the industry's double standard. "I don't even know how to feel about that. I'm like, 'Wait a second. If I have to be up front about herpes, how could you not be up front about HIV?" she said.
She continued, "I look back and I'm like, 'Okay, that would have been some valuable information.' Look how many people have played his love interest on the show. I mean, not that you can obviously get it through kissing, but still that's a big deal."
