'Goddesses' Dispute Charlie Sheen's Claim That He Informed All His Sexual Partners About His HIV Status
‘Goddesses’ Bree Olson and Natalie Kenly with Charlie Sheen in 2011. (Getty Images)
In revealing his HIV-positive status Tuesday morning on Today, Sheen said that he contracted the virus sometime after his marriage to Denise Richards. Later, in an open letter, he wrote that, since his diagnosis, he has “always led with condoms and honesty when it came to my condition” with his sexual partners. However, during an interview with Howard Stern Tuesday morning, Sheen’s ex Bree Olson disputed that claim.
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Olson, a former porn star who dated Sheen in 2011 — right around the time he found out he was HIV-positive — told Stern that he never informed her of his status.
“Fox and a whole bunch of other people started getting at me in emails, and they’re like, ‘What do you know about this?’ And even I wanted to blow it off. I’m like, ‘Oh, this is just another Charlie thing. I don’t want to believe this,’” Olson said. “He never said anything to me, I was his girlfriend, I lived with him. We were together; we had sex almost every day for a year.”
Olson does say that the two used condoms, but they were lambskin which do not prevent the spread of HIV. That said, Olson brought with her to the studio the results of an HIV test which revealed she did not have the virus which can cause AIDS.
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Sheen’s other “goddess” around that time, Natalie Kenly, told TMZ that while the actor never disclosed that he was HIV-positive, she and Olson were aware of closed-door meetings with doctors. She, too, is HIV negative and has said she has no intention of suing her former flame.
Throughout his interview with Olson, Howard Stern made repeated references to “HIV” and “AIDS” as synonyms; they are not. This only speaks to the need for more education about the disease.
