Sheen, stigma and how HIV is the 'new closet'

It was confirmed Tuesday that actor Charlie Sheen has been living with HIV for more than four years and has paid “countless millions” to “unsavory” women to keep them from exposing his condition to the world. “Locked in a vacuum of fear, I chose to allow their threats and skullduggery to vastly deplete future assets from my children, while my ‘secret’ sat entombed in their hives of folly ,” Sheen wrote in an open letter to media.