Actor Charlie Sheen has moved to clarify comments about his past sexual experiences with men, saying parts of his recent revelations have been misunderstood.

The 59-year-old star discussed the issue during an appearance on In Depth with Graham Bensinger, following the release of his memoir The Book of Sheen and Netflix documentary series aka Charlie Sheen.

In both projects, Sheen, who rose to prominence in the 1980s with films such as Platoon and Wall Street, spoke openly about having had sexual encounters with men while he was taking crack.

“That’s where it was born, or sparked,” he told PEOPLE last month. “And in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it — ‘Where did that come from?… Why did that happen? — and then just finally being like, ‘So what?’ So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f***ing fun, and life goes on.”

However, in a new interview this week, he suggested that some people had misinterpreted what he meant.

“It wasn’t full-fledged, man”

“When people say ‘sex with men,’ you immediately think of, like, butt sex. Sorry to be graphic, but that’s kind of where the mind goes, right?” Sheen explained on Wednesday’s episode of In Depth with Grant Bensinger. But “it wasn’t that.”

“I don’t want to be like, ‘Okay, I did this thing, but this and that part of it didn’t happen.’ But it didn’t,” he continued. “I don’t know that that matters, but that’s the only part of it that I’m like, it wasn’t full-fledged, man… They say you experiment in college, you know? I never went to college, so maybe that explains it.”

He also went out of his way to make it clear he wasn’t setting the record straight (so to speak) because he felt any regrets: “It’s not a shame thing,” he clarified. “It’s just kind of like a, ‘Huh, [sex with men] is a bit of a broad category.'”

Charlie Sheen has previously made headlines due to his well-documented substance abuse issues going back to the 1990s. Entertainment Weekly reports that he lost his role on hit sitcom Two and a Half Men in 2011 following an unsuccessful contract negotiation, and was diagnosed with HIV the same year, which he revealed in 2015.

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