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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t usually like this sort of thing but find his story such a tragedy that I was pulled in.  I thought it could have been better done.  I hate Md the fake enactments—felt cheesy.  I think it would have been much better if Emilio and his parents had agreed to participate.  His dad has spoken out a lot about him so they had many clips but his mom and Emilio have been pretty quiet over the decades and must have a lot of trauma from all this.  Not that they need to share it but I think it would have been more honest to have that all out there.  Denise agreed to participate for precisely this reason — she said withi it her it would be a sugar coated turd.  Denise comes off great in this.  I had not realized she is tough as nails and has a tremendous heart.  She mentioned her dad is a Vietnam vet, and I think her family is blue collar — she just seems both down to earth and also like she’s a tough broad.  
I also felt like they skimmed by the 80s too quickly as maybe we’d understand better how he got so messed up if we understood that more.  I did love seeing the old super max films of him and his brother and sean Penn, who was a neighbor.  Did he hang out with Rob Lowe back in the day?  I feel like Rob would have an interesting perspective given his own struggles.

There were also some weird throw away -/ like he mentioned off handedly that he lost his virginity at 25 to a posture in Vegas.  I was like “hold up — that’s not normal.  How that hell did that happen and do you think maybe those circumstances contributed to your general train crash of a life?”  He otherwise seemed very quiet and buttoned up in HS (although he was apparently a terrible student. ).  He y seemed to me like something had happened in his teen years or earlier  but they just didn’t delve into that.  I wondered if he’d been molested or something and has just blocked it out.  Emilio seems pretty well balanced and his parents actually seem pretty great.  It could be that he just has some screws loose (and they mentioned he was actually dead on delivery so maybe even perinatal brain damage), but it seems like something just went wrong with Charlie.

I don’t know what to make of the Cory haim allegations.  Sheen denies them vehemently and there’s nothing else in his history that suggests he was into boys or children.  Haim has his own issues and the whole allegation seemed weird.  I think it’s hard to say what happened there.  They are both men with a lot of damage.

One thing that did come through clearly is how people mostly just wanted to make money off him.  There was a film where he was bleeding copiously from the noise due to cocain overuse and they just kept cleaning him up.  His best chance to turn it around seemed like when he married Denise—he was good for a while then.  She said when he went back on drugs she tried to get help and people just told her she was hormonal post partum and imagining it.  I do wonder what her relationship was with his parents — she didn’t mention them and I wonder if she went to Martin for help.  [/quote]

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