'Goddess' Bree Olson: Life with Charlie Sheen Full of Tension
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ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Bree Olson was a key part of Charlie Sheen's "warlock" fantasies. The porn star was one of Sheen's two "goddesses," the girlfriends he said he loved and who lived in his Los Angeles mansion.
The two women -- Olson and former marijuana model Natalie Kenly -- completed "the three parts of my heart," Sheen has said.
While they portrayed their relationship as close-knit and kinky, it was anything but behind the scenes. In an interview with ABC News, Olson, 24, acknowledged that things were sometimes tense inside Sheen's home, in part because of Kenly.
"It was like you could cut the air with a knife sometimes," she said. "I felt like I couldn't show Charlie the affection and the love that I wanted to show him, because of how she would react."
ABC News reached out to Kenly for comment but she declined.
Sheen's career imploded this year after bouts of unpredictable behavior, including his trashing of a posh New York hotel while on a bender last fall. In subsequent interviews, the actor claimed to be a "warlock" with "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA" who took "seven-gram rocks" of drugs while he partied. He was fired after he lashed out publicly at executives of his hit show, Two and a Half Men.
Sheen, 45, has been to court numerous times to hammer out a custody agreement with ex-wife Brooke Mueller for the couple's two young sons. Mueller herself has been to rehab multiple times.
Sheen's life had taken several twists, but on television, things inside his home appeared great. They weren't, however, especially not between the two women.
"I think she was trying to convince herself that it was great," Olson said of Kenly. "But I mean, she was crying like every day. She was really upset about it."
So how did a farm girl from Fort Wayne, Ind., end up in this public love triangle? She became interested in the adult movie business when she was a 19-year-old, pre-med student. Five years later, Olson was a bona fide porn star. That's how she met Sheen. The actor had a long-running interest in adult film stars.
Olson said Sheen made her laugh.
"He doesn't have a regular, 'How's the weather?' conversation, you know?" she said.
The two started dating almost right away. She says she was aware of reports that Sheen could be violent -- that he allegedly held a knife to Mueller -- and that he trashed a hotel room with another porn star in it. But she figured it was tabloid misrepresentation.
"I did not get that vibe from him whatsoever," she said of the reports.
Asked if she has ever witnessed Sheen being violent, Olson replied: "No. I've never seen Charlie behave in -- violent in any situation."
She added that she has never felt scared or threatened while she was around him. She also says she's never seen Sheen do drugs, not even when she moved into his house in February.
But there was one thing that surprised her when she moved in: Kenly, the woman she refers to as "Natty." Olson said she had no idea that there would be another woman also living in the house.
A week after she moved in, the war between Sheen and Chuck Lorre, the creator of Two and a Half Men, began.
During the media blitz that followed, Sheen said he was "winning" and on a drug called "Charlie Sheen." Some thought Sheen had become psychologically unbalanced, but Olson had another take.
"He was just relaxed and trying to have fun. And people who don't know him -- they just don't get it," she said.
The memory that stings the most from that period, she says, was the uproar stemming from the so-called goddesses' caring for Sheen's young sons. In an interview with Good Morning America earlier this year, Sheen was asked if he saw Olson and Kenly as mother figures to his two young sons. His response, "absolutely, sure," prompted a wave of criticism.
"That is so absurd that, 'Oh, a porn star is not capable of being around children,' Olson said. “Just because I've chosen to do what everyone else does in this whole entire world on camera does not make me uneligible to be around children."
Olson, who is on the August cover of Playboy magazine, remained with Sheen through the beginning of his disastrous comedy tour across America. But the pressures of the road, and what she said was meddling by Kenly, led her to leave.
Even so, she won't say anything negative about Sheen. Indeed, she's protective of the troubled TV star.
"I see, like little Charlie in him, you know. Like I see little boy Charlie that I just want to [be protected] from the world that's after him," she said.
Kenly has also left Sheen. Now, Olson says, she wants to make the jump to mainstream acting.
"I think that I'm a damn good actress and I think that I could be in blockbuster hits," she said. "I think that I could be a main character on a series role." If that fails, Olson said she wants to get married and have children.
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