India, Sept. 6 -- American actor Charlie Sheen is stepping into a different kind of spotlight this September with two projects that dig deep into his past - his memoir The Book of Sheen and a Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, both scheduled to release next week .

"It's not about me setting the record straight or righting all the wrongs of my past," he said in an interview with People magazine. "It's just me, finally telling the stories in the way they actually happened. The stories I can remember, anyway," he added jokingly.

In the documentary, Charlie speaks candidly for the first time about his sexual encounters with men. Asked how it feels to talk openly after hiding it for years, he responded, "Liberating. It's f***ing liberati...