Brett Rossi on Life with Charlie Sheen and Surviving Hollywood

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Brett Rossi on Life with Charlie Sheen and Surviving Hollywood  #BrettRossi #CharlieSheen

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00:00You don't have any contact with Charlie at all?

00:02No, I don't.

00:03Actually, somebody asked me if I did.

00:06I don't.

00:06I assumed that you didn't, but.

00:08No, I don't.

00:09We don't talk.

00:11But last I heard, he was like living in Malibu.

00:14And sadly, he's living the life that like I always wanted him to live with me.

00:19But I'm glad that like he's found his peace and his sobriety and all that stuff because like he really needed that.

00:25But I guess he's living like a normal life in Malibu.

00:30He's sober.

00:30He's clean.

00:31I guess he's like raising the boys.

00:33So he's living.

00:35It was so funny.

00:36When we were together, all I wanted was for him to like drive us somewhere.

00:40I know that sounds crazy, but I just wanted to drive to like Target.

00:44Like that's all I wanted to do.

00:46To do a normal thing with him.

00:47Yeah, just like me and him go to Target, get in the car, drive.

00:52No security.

00:54But that like we couldn't, especially back then.

00:56He was at like, you know, like his peak.

00:58Like he was just getting off of like...

01:00Wasn't that Tiger Blood days?

01:02Yeah, he was just getting off of that.

01:04And he was still filming like anger management.

01:06So he was still very much in the public eye.

01:08So we never got the ability to have like a normal life.

01:13Like we would go to like...

01:16I remember we were at a restaurant one time and we sat down and somebody like came over

01:22and was like, Charlie!

01:24And I would get, you know, coming from somebody who has a fan base herself, nothing compared

01:30to like that was like, you know, monstrous.

01:33But I tried to be understanding.

01:37But at the same time, I'd be like, do you have to yell his name?

01:39Because now the whole restaurant knows he's here.

01:41And now our, guess what?

01:43Now our dinner is more, is hint like a line of people coming over and asking for autographs

01:49and photos and pictures.

01:51And so that was very hard because a lot of people are like, oh, you knew what you were

01:54getting into when you got with Charlie.

01:56And it's like, I didn't.

01:58He was not my era, like when it comes to like celebrities, I just was attracted to this like

02:04older hot guy that I knew he was an actor, but I didn't.

02:09And I knew he was a celebrity, but I didn't know, honestly, I didn't know the caliber of

02:13like how big of a celebrity he was until we went to Spain.

02:17We went to Spain and we saw The Running of the Bulls because I had always wanted to see

02:21that.

02:21And we went to Spain, saw The Running of the Bulls and somebody tipped off the hotel.

02:26Somebody at the hotel tipped off that we were there.

02:29And I remember we were walking from our hotel to our car and there was the biggest mob of

02:35people I've ever seen, like people climbing on our car, like banging on the, it was so

02:41traumatic.

02:43I was so scared, but that was when I was like, oh shit, I'm like, I'm gonna, like, and we

02:50were engaged then and I was like, oh my God, like I'm getting married to this person.

02:54Like, this is our life.

02:56How did he handle situations like that?

02:58He was really great with his fans.

03:00Like, I will say that about him.

03:02Like, he was so, and we used to argue about it because he was so great that I think sometimes

03:09he would kind of ignore boundaries.

03:14Like, okay, yeah, I'd love to take a picture with you, but can me and my fiance finish our

03:18dinner first and then we can take a picture?

03:20On the way out, we can take a picture.

03:22Yeah, like, I wish that he would have had more boundaries and that was something that

03:26we had a lot of disagreements about because it wasn't that I didn't want him, and his fans

03:32were like fans of mine too, and they'd be like, wait, no, I want a picture of you.

03:36And I'm like, who, me?

03:37Like, why?

03:37Like, who am I?

03:38Like, compared to like this, you know, Hollywood royalty comes from like a family of royalty.

03:44Um, so, but that was very, very, very hard, and that really changed the trajectory of my

03:52life because my life was never the same after that.

03:55I mean, when we broke up, like, paparazzi were like sitting in front of my house, like,

04:01taking pictures of me leaving Starbucks, and I was only 25 years old, and I'm going through

04:08a breakup of not just her boyfriend, but my fiance, and we broke up three weeks before

04:14our wedding, and this is very public.

04:17Yeah.

04:17And this is not just public, like, oh, all our friends know, but like the whole world,

04:22like TMZ, Fox News, E! News, people are waiting out front of my door, hey, how do you feel

04:27about this?

04:27And it's like, well, how do you think I feel?

04:29Like, how do you think I feel, you know?

04:31And then all of your, all of your, your, your, your dirty laundry gets aired out, and we

04:36had a mole in our house, and somebody kept leaking stories to the press that were awful

04:43about me, and like, oh, she's a bridezilla, or she's this, or she's getting so-and-so fired,

04:47and I wasn't.

04:48I wasn't like that at all.

04:50I didn't even want a wedding.

04:52He wanted the wedding.

04:53I was, like, embarrassed, and we had this, like, huge engagement party that you went to.

04:58Yes, I remember.

04:59I think I still have the bib from that.

05:00Yeah.

05:00You're not going to lie.

05:02We had this huge engagement party, but I was actually, I don't know if you remember, but

05:06I was, like, very shy at it, because I was going to be, like, I don't know, his third

05:11or fourth wife, and to me, that was, like, oh, my God, I, in my mind, I was, like, everyone's

05:16got, I got two strikes, three strikes against me.

05:18One, I'm a porn star.

05:20Two, oh, God, it's his third or fourth wedding.

05:25Yeah.

05:25And three, I was young, so, but a lot of people, you know,

05:30people don't realize that I'm, like, a very old soul, and all, to circle back to what

05:35he's doing now, or what I've been told, is that I always fought for his sobriety, and

05:40I used to talk to you about that all the time.

05:42I remember that, yeah.

05:42I always fought for Charlie's sobriety, and so hearing that he's living that life now,

05:49and he's living a much more quieter lifestyle, like, that makes me happy, even if I couldn't

05:53share that with him, you know?

05:56So, I mean.

05:58That's one hell of a thing to have to live through.

06:00I mean, I can't even imagine.

06:01Yeah, I mean, and it's not like I just dated a reality star.

06:04Like, this was, like, Hollywood royalty.

06:07Like, I mean, shit, up next, I should, like, hit up Sean Penn or something.

06:11Just kidding.

06:12Even Sean Penn's, like, washed up.

06:14Actually, I met Sean.

06:15Sean, did I tell you the Sean story?

06:17I don't think so.

06:18Oh, my God.

06:18I cooked Sean eggs for breakfast one day.

06:22Sean was the coolest guy ever.

06:24He came over, and Sean, you would think, oh, my God, this is Sean Penn, right?

06:27He came to our house.

06:30I don't know why he came over, but he came over, and it was, like, breakfast time, and

06:34I cannot cook for shit.

06:35And I was, like, well, I gotta be, like, the wife and do something.

06:38So, I was, like, I'll make eggs.

06:39And I had, like, one of those waffle little mini stick makers.

06:42So, I made, like, scrambled eggs and these waffle things.

06:45Sean rolls up.

06:46You would think he'd roll up in, like, this badass car.

06:48He rolls up in this, like, hooptie, run-down, fucked-up truck, pulls in front of our house.

06:56He walks in.

06:57He, like, smells like a carton of cigarettes.

07:00He's wearing clothes from probably 1992.

07:03And he eats my breakfast, and he's, like, this is amazing.

07:07I'm, like, you, sir, are a good liar.

07:10But thank you very much for, I know that my food is disgusting.

07:12So, thank you.

07:13But, yeah, so, but my, but that was, like, my life.

07:17Like, oh, yeah, Sean's coming over.

07:18I'm, like, oh, okay.

07:19Like, thinking, like, Sean, like, some guy named Sean.

07:21And then Sean Penn walks in, and you're, like, hello.

07:24Like, I just made breakfast for Sean Penn.

07:28Like, you know, we would just, like, the life, like, Paris Hilton was our neighbor,

07:33and we would go to dinner with Larry King, and, like, you know, just, there was just so many

07:39surreal moments that, like, I look back, and I'm, like, oh, my God.

07:44Like, it definitely alters your brain chemistry, because, like, I've also seen things that people

07:50would be, like, oh, that's only in movies.

07:51I'm, like, no.

07:52Like, is a part of you glad that you didn't end up, like, marrying him and getting sucked

07:59into that whole lifestyle?

08:01Because I feel like you're right.

08:02Like, you get sucked in that kind of celebrity, especially that level.

08:06And I feel like it has to change you on some level.

08:10I mean, how can you ever be the same again?

08:13Because people will never treat you the same way.

08:16Like, you're not surrounded by people who are real.

08:19You don't live in the same world.

08:20It did, it did, it did change.

08:22It changed me even in that short time, and not changed me, like, oh, I thought I was

08:27better than people.

08:27It changed me because I lost trust for people.

08:30Yeah.

08:30I think before them, I was so naive.

08:33But if I would have been with any celebrity, I think the safest person, ironically, to have

08:41been with, to have stayed centered, would have been him.

08:46And the reason being is because he was a firm believer of, if you don't read it, it doesn't

08:52exist.

08:54He didn't fall into the fodder of, like, that lifestyle.

09:02I mean, I wore Target clothes.

09:04Like, I shopped at, you know, Ralph's when we needed, like, I was very still grounded.

09:10Like, I picked up the dog poop, like, whereas, you know, other people at his level are kind

09:16of not centered and not grounded.

09:20I think that's a lot that's attributed a lot because of his mother and his father, because

09:26they still live in the same house in Malibu that they've lived in since, like, the 70s.

09:30His mom still goes to, you know, the farmer's market.

09:33Like, they were very normal people.

09:35You walk in their house, it's like, it looks like it's still decorated in the 80s.

09:39And there's, like, religious crosses everywhere.

09:41And they're just very normal.

09:42So I think that the normalcy, like, if I would have been in that lifestyle, that would have

09:49been the safest area for me to be in or person to be with.

09:53I know that sounds insane.

09:55Yeah.

09:55But I'm talking grounded-wise.

09:58Because there's so many, we would meet people and I'm like, why are they like that?

10:03And he'd be like, you know.

10:06So, like, if it wasn't for the drugs, he might have...

10:08Yeah.

10:08No, no.

10:09Honestly, like, Charlie was an incredible partner whenever he was sober and clean.

10:16He really was.

10:17And he's a really good person, like, outside of that.

10:20Um, so, it actually, when we talk about, like, how it changed me, I think it definitely taught

10:27me, um, to see that, that because I had never experienced, like, addiction or anything like

10:34that, that it showed me a different side of, like, yeah, that person can be a totally

10:41different person.

10:42And it was really hard to grapple with, like, understanding how a good person could be a

10:48terrible person at the same time.

10:50Yeah.

10:50I mean, it really changes you.

10:52And I think that that's something that makes joining, um, you know, a community or a program

10:58like AA or any other kind of, um, program where you can meet other people who are struggling

11:06with the same thing as you, because to explain addiction to someone who doesn't have it is

11:10pretty much impossible because it is also, like, it doesn't make sense.

11:15Like, I, you know, am, like, a recovering alcoholic.

11:19By the way, I'll have seven years on Sunday.

11:21Yeah.

11:21Lucky number seven.

11:23So, that was the, and I hit seven years the first time and then I relapsed.

11:28So, like, I'm going to make it to eight.

11:29Yeah.

11:30This is, like, my, my point where I'm, like, okay, I'm going to make it one more year past it.

11:34Um, also, I relapsed on accident because I ate an edible on a twisty shoot, which is a whole

11:40other story.

11:40Why was there an edible on a twisty shoot?

11:42Because we were in Costa Rica.

11:43Wait, was this, like, oh, my God, did you, you should, oh, one of these days we'll have to

11:47talk about the twisties contract star days when we went on trips.

11:52Yeah.

11:52Me, Emily, and Taylor.

11:54But, yeah, that was, but, yes, to answer your question.

11:57It, it did change me and it would have changed me, but I think that if there was anyone I

12:04would have, I would have been sheltered is, I think, the appropriate term.

12:10Yeah.

12:11Ironically, people are like, how can you be with Charlie Sheen and that'd be the safest

12:14place to be?

12:15But they just don't understand what I'm trying to say if that's their thought process after

12:20everything I just said.

12:21Yeah.

12:22I mean, look, like.

12:23And I'm not, and this is actually interesting that we're talking about this because, like,

12:27you know me, like, I don't really talk about it.

12:29I don't really open up.

12:30I don't, a lot of people, like, my last partner, he was probably the first person that I, and

12:38before him, I was with somebody for eight years.

12:40So, I think that my last partner was probably the last person I ever truly, like, opened

12:46up to about that, and this is probably the most I've talked about it in a really long

12:51time, or actually ever.

12:54So, there you go.

12:56There you go.

12:57See, we told TikTok that we were going to spill them all, and then we were right.

13:01Yeah.

13:02Yeah.

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