By Jalen Jenkins –
Every time her dad, Charlie Sheen, was featured in tabloids for his drug and bad boy escapades, schoolmates invariably told little Lola Sheen.
“People came up to me and said things about my dad and made really, really rude jokes in my face,” Lola says on her podcast. “I didn’t have any friends in elementary school. I always felt like an outsider. Elementary school was a very, very difficult period in my life. You don’t know how to protect yourself at that age.”
The stormy relationship between Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, also a Hollywood A-lister, “screwed up” the daughters, Denise admits. Older sister Sami became an Only Fans star. Lola went the other direction, to Christ.
“I found Jesus a year ago when I was very depressed, very anxious and really, really struggling
Mentally,” Lola says on a People video. “Jesus rescued me and he completely rewired my mind. He became my savior but also my best friend. He is the one who I go to for everything. I don’t know how I lived without Jesus.”
Yessir. Without Jesus, Lola was lost. She got into crystals, partying, alcohol and boyfriends. She also got into a car accident. On June 28, 2022, Lola crashed into an embankment on the curves of the Santa Monica mountains around midnight. Her mother later said it was a friend who was driving. She emerged largely unscathed. The accident changed her outlook on life and contributed to her coming to Jesus.
Lola was the second little princess who, it was supposed, grew up amid enviable fame and fortune. Her father was Charlie Sheen, who was the highest paid TV actor at the sitcom Two and a Half Men. Her mother, a bonafide hottie, starred in a smattering a movies like Special Forces and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Mom won’t let her daughters see her perform in the 1998 Wild Things. (Reality can be awkward.) Dad was even more scandal plagued: addiction, domestic abuse, wild all-night parties in hotels, allegations of child rape – non-stop TMI fodder for the gossip rags.
“I was exposed to so much at a very early age,” Lola admits. When she found out from a schoolmate one of her dad’s indelicacies, she closed herself up in her room and lay in her bed, depressed, for three weeks straight.
In vain, Mom tried to shield her daughter. The divorce finalized in 2006, four years after tying the knot. Today, Charlie has HIV.
In the 8th grade, she bought crystals, went to psychic readings and searched for wisdom because “I thought it would bring me love,” Lola says. “I was buying these rocks because I thought it was my only option.”
She tried to fit with friend by going to parties and booze. “I would just drink to feel cool,” she says. “I was so lost. I didn’t have any guidance.”
The depression compounded in her sophomore year of high school. Once, she didn’t come out of her room for three months. ”I had very scary dreams and was in a constant cycle of sadness,” she says.
She tried living with her dad for a time, but that helped nothing. She tried vaping. “I got addicted to nicotine just because I was trying to fit in,” she says.
“I got these intense suicidal thoughts,” she confesses. “It was really scary. I would cry myself to sleep every single night.”
She got a boyfriend and, for a time, soared on the emotions of love out of her depression, but when he broke up with her, she fell glum again. Then the accident happened. It refocused her. She was 17.
“I saw life differently,” she says. “I had a new set of eyes. I almost lost my life.”
She hit rock bottom. Everything was dark and hopeless. Maybe a friend was praying for her; otherwise what happened next seems unprompted.
“I felt Jesus come in my room,” Lola says. “I felt him all in my room, and I felt him hold my hand and say try this again with me. It felt like he told me I’m here to rescue you. I’m here to save you tonight. You are going to be okay.”
She was baptized in January of this year and soon after started her channel Heavenly Bonded.
Meanwhile, her sister, wanting massive cash, started a Only Fans channel. On the Mother’s new reality show with the daughters (there’s a third daughter Eloise Joni Richards who was adopted and has developmental delays), the older sisters politely express their differences of opinions, and when Sami expounds her online career, Lola looks down and seems to grimace. On her channel, Lola expresses love and acceptance for her older sister.
“Jesus changed my life,” she says.
About this writer: Jalen Jenkins studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy near the San Fernando Valley.
