Charlie Sheen in "aka Charlie Sheen," the Netflix documentary about his life.
Troubled young actor Charlie Sheen in the Netflix documentary "aka Charlie Sheen."

The Netflix documentary "aka Charlie Sheen" (streaming now) wastes no time in Part 1, jetting right into its first hair-raising story about the meteoric rise and substance abuse-fueled fall of actor Charlie Sheen.

Sheen, 60, and sober for eight years, speaks candidly to director Andrew Renzi about being highly intoxicated while arguing with third wife Brooke Mueller while flying overseas for their honeymoon. Somehow, the Hollywood star was still welcomed into the cockpit by the starstruck flight crew and allowed to briefly take control of the airliner.

"I'm there drunk, with close to 300 people asleep behind me, an angry bride 20 feet behind me, and I start guiding this plane," says Sheen. "This perfect magical flying machine responded in a way I can't put into words."

The co-pilot eventually wised up and flipped the plane's autopilot on before any mishap occurred. And Sheen does find the words to tell more harrowing stories of addiction and excess that defined his Hollywood spiral.

Here are the most shocking Part 1 "aka Charlie Sheen" revelations:

Clint Eastwood was recruited to be the closer at Charlie Sheen's 1990 intervention

In 1990, Sheen's family was concerned enough about his excessive drinking to set up a surprise intervention, inviting the "The Rookie" star over under the pretense of a birthday celebration for his father, actor Martin Sheen.

When Sheen arrived, his mother Janet hugged him and asked, "Are you armed?"

"I thought she was joking," Sheen recalls in the documentary, adding that he said no, "but maybe there's something in the trunk."

The intervention was attended by longtime friends and family, including Sheen's brother Emilio Estevez.

"There's my yoga instructor, and Rob Lowe is there," Sheen recounts. "And then there's Emilio and (siblings) Renée and Ramon, and my parents."

The goal of the professionally guided intervention was to get Sheen directly into a rehabilitation facility. Martin Sheen sealed the deal by handing the telephone to his son, without telling him Clint Eastwood was on the line.

"I said, 'Hello' and it's that very recognizable, globally famous voice: It's Clint," Sheen recalls. "He said something to the effect of 'You gotta get the train back on the tracks. kid, You're worth saving.' It was really powerful. I thanked him, gave the phone back to my dad and said, 'All right, let's go.' "

Charlie Sheen skipped out on rehab to judge a Hawaiian Tropic bikini contest with Nicolas Cage

The problem with rehab was that Sheen was expected to judge a Hawaiian Tropic bikini competition in Palm Springs, California, with his partner in mayhem, Nicolas Cage. He was not bound by law to stay. So Sheen wrote a promise to the facility's night nurse that he would leave and return by 8 a.m. or pay her $1 million. She agreed.

"It was as fantabulous and sexy and as exciting as it could have been," says Sheen of the contest. He returned to the facility at 7:40 a.m., earlier than promised.

The night nurse "was happy for me, but disappointed for herself," says Sheen. "She said, 'Well, whatever, you're a man of your word. Welcome back. We kept your room for you.' "

Charlie Sheen had an 18-hour cocaine nosebleed while shooting 'Money Talks'

While making the 1997 action comedy "Money Talks" with Chris Tucker, Sheen's cocaine use spiraled out of control.

"I got an 18-hour nosebleed from doing too much cocaine," Sheen recalls. "I just kept kind of blotting it. There was one night where it actually dripped onto my shirt during a scene. I got the director, Brett Ratner, to make that shot go away forever. And he did, because we've never seen it, right?"

(In his new memoir, “The Book of Sheen,” Sheen refers to the incident as a 32-hour nosebleed.)

Charlie Sheen inserted an ice cube into his rectum to revive for 'Free Money'

The actor started taking jobs just to pay for his expensive drug habit, including the 1998 dark comedy "Free Money" in Montreal. The director noticed that the exhausted Sheen couldn't keep his eyes open even when cameras were rolling.

"That had never happened before," says Sheen. "I said, 'Give me a glass of ice' and I said, 'I'll be right back.' There was a little bathroom, and I went in there, and I took an ice cube and I shoved it up my butt. Never done that before. And, man, I was wide awake just enough to get back on the mark and finish the scene."

To complete that story, the documentary shows the ice cube-aided scene with a wide-eyed Sheen.

Nicolas Cage's frightening plane prank almost revealed Charlie Sheen's cocaine stash to police

Sheen recalls when he and Cage were both "high" on a flight to San Francisco. Then Cage grabbed the plane intercom.

"Oh, God, there was no warm-up," says Sheen. "He launched into, 'This is your captain speaking. I'm not feeling well. I'm losing control.' He had taken it to a place where his intentions were just wildly inappropriate. You could hear people screaming and demanding information from the flight crew."

Armed police were waiting for the plane in San Francisco to confront the two for the dangerous prank. The legal situation was even more precarious because of Sheen's hidden drugs.

"Nic didn't know I had over an ounce of cocaine taped to the inside of my leg," says Sheen. "I'm sweating and really concerned about what's going to happen next."

The lead police officer was a big enough fan of both actors to let them go with a warning, "to make sure this doesn't happen again, young man," says Sheen. "So we got through."

What happens in Part 2 of 'aka Charlie Sheen'?

Speaking at the LA premiere of "aka Charlie Sheen," the reformed Sheen said he was pleased only Part 1 would be shown to the audience, which included ex-wife Denise Richards.

The second part will go into Sheen's highly publicized substance abuse spiral in the 2000s and 2010s, his 2011 firing from "Two and a Half Men," the destruction of his marriage to Richards and more.

"If we were to watch Part 2, then we wouldn't be able to maintain, at the end of it, any eye contact," Sheen said.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Charlie Sheen piloted a jet drunk and more shocking documentary revelations

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