Charlie Sheen Says Mira Sorvino Made Him a Shocking Offer After His Probation Violation

Celebrity memoirs often offer more than career highlights - they pull back the curtain on moments of chaos, vulnerability, and unexpected encounters that shaped their lives. Charlie Sheen’s new book, The Book of Sheen: A Memoir, is no exception.

Known as much for his Hollywood career as for his turbulent personal life, Sheen doesn’t shy away from revisiting the darker corners of his past. Among the stories he recounts, one memory from the late 1990s stands out: a strange mix of danger, desperation, and an unforgettable offer from actress Mira Sorvino.

In 1998, Sheen found himself spiraling into one of his lowest points. After injecting cocaine, he ended up in the hospital.

The overdose not only left him shaken but also put him in direct violation of his probation, which had already been imposed after a previous arrest. Instead of following through with treatment at Promises Malibu or accepting psychiatric care at Cedars-Sinai, Sheen decided to talk his way out of both options.

That choice, reckless as it was, came with immediate consequences. U.S. Marshals were soon on their way to his home, ready to serve an arrest warrant. Rather than face the inevitable, Sheen decided to keep running.

He learned he was due in court in Malibu the next morning, but before dealing with that, he headed to a familiar spot: the home of Saul Hudson, better known as Slash from Guns N’ Roses. There, he found not only the rock star but also Mira Sorvino, who at the time was enjoying the height of her career after winning an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite.

Sorvino’s shocking offer pushed Sheen toward court instead of running from the law.

Sheen recalls pleading his case to the two of them, insisting that he wanted to avoid the courthouse and continue his life on the run. Both Slash and Sorvino were stunned by what they were hearing.

For Sheen, though, it felt like another chance to stretch out the chaos. Slash was quick to cut through the fantasy, telling him that what he really needed wasn’t another party but rehab.

That left Sorvino, with whom Sheen admits he’d shared a quiet crush for years. Looking for some kind of support, he turned to her. What came next caught him completely off guard. Sorvino, trying to push him toward doing the right thing, took him by the shoulders and made a bold offer:

“I will sleep with you - if you just promise to get yourself to court this morning.”commons.wikimedia

Mira Sorvino’s bold offer left a stronger mark on Sheen than the punishment he faced.

The proposition floored him. Sheen writes that he was “flattered” and even a little stunned by the gesture. While the offer itself never came to pass, it had the desired effect.

He ultimately showed up at court the following morning, though he admits in the memoir that his attention was hardly on the legal consequences.

“In all truth, I was still beaming from Mira’s sexy offer,” he recalls.

For him, the moment left a mark far deeper than the actual punishment he was facing. The memory, he says, touched him more than if the offer had been carried out.

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Looking back, the story captures several sides of Sheen’s public and private image: the self-destructive behavior, the brushes with the law, and the surreal encounters that seem ripped from a movie script. It also highlights the strange ways people in his orbit tried to pull him back from the edge - sometimes through blunt warnings, other times through desperate bargains.

In retelling it, Sheen doesn’t try to justify his choices or frame the moment as some kind of life-changing breakthrough. Instead, he lets it stand as one of those bizarre, unforgettable episodes that defined his chaotic years.

For a man who lived much of his life in extremes, this was just one more night that balanced between disaster and dark humor.