HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Charlie Sheen's wife, Brooke Mueller, has checked into a rehab center for substance abuse, TMZ is reporting.
Mueller, 32, reportedly checked into The Canyon rehab facility in Malibu, Calif. last Tuesday — the day after Sheen was formally charged with felony menacing stemming from a Christmas Day incident in which he allegedly held a knife to his wife's throat during a holiday getaway.
Mueller has had a rough go of it ever since the domestic incident. She was first hospitalized for what was described as a severe wisdom tooth infection that led to pneumonia. That was followed by a stay at a North Carolina "wellness program" that her attorney stressed was not related to substance abuse.
"Brooke did not enter a drug rehab program," lawyer Yale Galanter explained to People. "She has been drug free for six months. Since Christmas day, she has been assaulted by her husband, almost lost her life, and developed pneumonia. She was released from the hospital a couple of days too early, so she needs to be somewhere doctors can treat her if necessary."
Mueller and Sheen, who tied the knot in May 2008, welcomed their first children, twin boys, last March.
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