United Kingdom, Sept. 2 -- Charlie Sheen spent his 50s "apologising to the people [he] hurt".

The 59-year-old actor battled substance abuse and legal issues over a number of years, but Charlie insists that his new memoir, The Book of Sheen, isn't about "righting all the wrongs" of his past.

The Hollywood star - who also has his own Netflix documentary, called aka Charlie Sheen - told People: "It's not about me setting the record straight or righting all the wrongs of my past.

"Most of my 50s were spent apologising to the people I hurt. I also didn't want to write from the place of being a victim. I wasn't, and I own everything I did. It's just me, finally telling the stories in the way they actually happened. The stories I can remember...