CHARLIE Sheen has revealed what he was taking that caused him to start ranting about his “tiger blood” and let everyone know that he was “winning.”

The New York Post reports that the former Two and a Half Men star told The Dr Oz Show that he was taking too much testosterone cream back in 2011.

“That was a very specific period of time that did feel very out-of-body and very just detached from all things real,” he told Dr. Mehmet Oz. “I felt superhuman during some of that.”

After getting canned from Two and a Half Men, Sheen publicly went to war with his old show and its creator Chuck Lorre, quipping in interviews, “They picked a fight with a warlock,” “You can’t process me with a normal brain” and “I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available, because if you try it once, you will die.”

In hindsight, the star, now battling HIV, tells Dr Oz: “It was a lot of highs and lows. I was taking a lot of testosterone cream, and I think I went too far with it. It was kind of like a borderline ... not a ’roid rage, but a ’roid disengage.”

Sheen, who even took his act on the road in a trainwreck live tour called My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option, now says, “That’s the stuff that I do look at [and] cringe a little ... It was nice to give people a bunch of slogans and T-shirts and all that. [But] the rest of it was a lot of work.”

“There were things about that person that were empowering, that were vibrant ... but I didn’t like the anger. I tend to be victimised by my anger at times.”

At the time Sheen also filed a $US100 million suit against Lorre and Warner Bros. Television, which was settled.

Sheen also opened up about his relationships with exes Brooke Mueller and Denise Richards, the latter of whom is suing him for selling a house he gifted daughters Sam and Lola in a trust.

“I’m basically being punished for giving her a house. It doesn’t make any sense,” Sheen said.

He added of the bombshell lawsuit Richards filed against him in January for $US1.2 million, “My thought was, ‘She’s burning down the bank and then trying to rob it.’”

This article originally appeared in The New York Post