Sheen gets psychiatric evaluation

Associated Press

NEW YORK

Charlie Sheen was hospitalized Tuesday for a psychiatric evaluation after a woman called police to say the star was throwing furniture and yelling in his room at The Plaza, a law-enforcement official said.

Police were called to the room at 2 a.m. and Sheen appeared highly intoxicated, the official said. He was not arrested and went voluntarily. It’s not clear who the woman was in the hotel room with him. Sheen was reportedly in New York on a family vacation.

His publicist, Stan Rosenfield, said the 45-year-old was expected to be released today. “What we are able to determine is that Charlie had an adverse allergic reaction to some medication and was taken to the hospital,” he said.

It was the latest in a series of troubles for Sheen, the star of CBS’ “Two and a Half Men,” who has had problems with alcohol and drugs in the past.

In August, he pleaded guilty in Aspen, Colo., to misdemeanor third-degree assault after a Christmas Day assault on his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen. Prosecutors dropped more serious charges and he avoided jail time and he was sentenced to 30 days in a rehabilitation center.

In December 1996, he was charged with attacking a girlfriend at his Southern California home. He later pleaded no contest and was placed on two years of probation.

In 1998, his father, actor Martin Sheen, turned him in for violating his parole after a cocaine overdose sent him to the hospital. He was ordered to undergo a rehabilitation program.