Charlie Sheen Celebrates 6 Years of Sobriety: “Single Dad Stuff”

Charlie Sheen is thriving in his new lifestyle, and all those drug-driven moments are way behind him. He now has a consistent lifestyle that involves getting his youngest children ready for the day.

Once upon a time, Sheen’s favorite thing to do in the morning was to start drinking, but nowadays, he’s past all that addiction and he’s in a better place.

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“Next month I’ll be six years sober,” he told PEOPLE in an interview published on Thursday. “I have a very consistent lifestyle now. It’s all about single dad stuff, and raising my 14-year-old twin boys Max and Bob.”

He’s no longer adding scotch in his coffee these days, instead he wakes “around 4:30 or 5 a.m.” to watch the news and sneak in some exercise and work before his kids wake and he has to help them get ready for the day.

“Then I get the kids up and help them with their morning routine — if you can call it a routine,” the 58-year-old joked.

Sheen shares the twin boys with ex-wife Brooke Mueller. He’s also dad to daughters Sami, 19, and Lola, 18, with ex-wife Denise Richards and 38-year-old Cassandra with high school girlfriend Paula Profit.

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As for what motivated him to move away from that unhealthy lifestyle, he credits breaking a promise he made to his daughter.

“One morning I’d forgotten my daughter had an appointment I’d promised to drive her to, and I’d already had a couple of pops that day,” he recalled. “So had to call my friend Tony to take us. We got her there on time, but it broke my heart because she was in the backseat and I could just tell she was thinking, ‘Why isn’t dad driving?’ So I got home and sat with that for the rest of the day. And the next morning I just stopped.”

However, breaking from addiction is never easy, and for Sheen – who formerly revealed he quit drugs long before quitting alcohol – it was a gradual process.

“I think the first month I was like, I’m going to give it a month, just see if I feel any better, and if my interactions with those that are closest to me improve,’” he reflected. “And they did. And I’m like, all right, I’m going to go another month. And then it got traction. I had momentum.”

He added, “There was just instant evidence that this was the side I needed to be on. I couldn’t be in denial about it anymore. I’m proud of the choices that I’ve made and the changes I’ve made to live a life today that will never look like that mess. That was some alien version of myself.”

In case you don’t know what the other side was like for him, Sheen fell from grace during his very public 2011 meltdown. At the time he was the highest paid actor on TV, but was fired from his hit CBS series after he went on a series of profanity-laced rants.

He later blamed his “epic drug run” for causing the incident.

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