Charlie Sheen in hospital after incident in hotel

Actor Charlie Sheen has been taken to hospital for psychiatric checks after police were called to his New York hotel room.

A police source said a woman in his room told officers the 45-year-old was highly intoxicated and had been yelling and throwing furniture.

Sheen was not arrested, but checked himself into a hospital for an evaluation.

Sheen’s publicist Stan Rosenfield later said that the 45-year-old was expected to be released tomorrow.

“Charlie had an adverse allergic reaction to some medication and was taken to the hospital,” he said.

Police have not received any complaints from the hotel about any possible damage. A message left with the historic hotel at the foot of Central Park was not returned.

It’s not clear who the woman in the hotel room was. Sheen was reportedly in New York on a family holiday.

It was the latest in a series of troubles for Sheen, the star of CBS’ “Two and a Half Men,” who has had problems with alcohol and drugs in the past.

In August, he pleaded guilty in Aspen, Colorado to misdemeanour third-degree assault after a Christmas Day assault on his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen.

Prosecutors dropped more serious charges and he avoided jail time and he was sentenced to 30 days in a rehabilitation centre, 30 days of probation and 36 hours of anger management.

Mueller Sheen told police that the actor threatened to kill her and brandished a knife after she told him she wanted a divorce.

Charlie Sheen said they argued but he denied threatening her, and he told police that he was upset by the divorce threat. Sheen previously went through a bitter divorce and custody battle with his ex-wife Denise Richards.

In December 1996, he was charged with attacking a girlfriend at his Southern California home. He later pleaded no contest and was placed on two years of probation.

In 1998, his father, actor Martin Sheen, turned him in for violating his parole after a cocaine overdose sent him to the hospital. He was ordered to undergo a rehabilitation programme.

He also had a very bitter and public divorce with actress Denise Richards, the mother of his two children, Sam, 6, and Lola, 5.

Sheen is also the star of films such as “Platoon,” “Wall Street” and “Major League.”