Charlie Sheen opens up about living in famous brother Emilio Estevezs shadow during Brat Pack days

Charlie Sheen is getting real about what it was like having a brother who was a member of the infamous Brat Pack.During an appearance on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” on Oct.6, Sheen discussed how he felt when his brother, Emilio Estevez, was at the height of his fame as a member of the Brat Pack, while he hadn’t had his breakthrough in the industry yet.“It felt awful,” Sheen said.

“I felt like I was just taking up the rear.I felt like a valet on certain nights.”The Brat Pack was a group of young actors in the 1980s who frequently appeared in films together.

It included big celebrities, such as Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy.After appearing in some of the biggest movies of the decade, including “The Breakfast Club,” “The Outsiders” and “Sixteen Candles,” the pack started getting more and more attention.Sheen said that while he “was in the mix” and hanging out with his brother and the other actors at “all the VIP lounges and all the special places,” he still felt out of place. “It felt the worst… when [they got] all the attention from all the pretty girls… and they would all go home with them, and I would just go home,” Sheen said.

“I think there’s a line in [my new] book that my inner bear had been poked, and it lit a fire, and you could see it from the f—ing moon.”He went on to explain that he “didn’t give a s— about acting” and that his jealousy never stemmed from his desire to act, but that he wasn’t “part of all of the perks” his brother was getting. Sheen previously opened up about what it was like being in the shadows of his older brother in that time period, saying “I felt so small and left out as I watched the Emilio-steered throng.” He later added that being out with them and a “bevy of gorgeous gals was like being shipwrecked with a fat guy – you’re gonna star...

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