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Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards's daughter Lola Sheen says she drew closer to Jesus during a "very bad panic attack."
In January 2025, the 19-year-old started sharing her newfound Christian faith on social media after sharing with her followers she had been baptized. Following the baptism, she said her decision to embrace Christianity made her life "worth living."
Sheen hosts a podcast called HeavenlyBonded, and in a recent episode, she explained that she began to suffer from panic attacks doing press interviews in New York City for the podcast. She credits God to help her overcome it.
Looking back she said, “I got to see how God’s power worked so much in my weakest moment.”
“I flew to New York on Feb. 25 and right when I got there, I landed really late and then I had to wake up really early the next morning to get into hair and makeup and to do press and everything, and I think I didn't make enough time to pray and to [...] let God fill my mind with His truth,” she said.
She said that doing press, she would often feel unworthy. “When you’re doing press and you’re doing all these things, there can be a lot of feelings of unworthiness because you're around all of these people and you constantly have eyes on you,” she said. “I had a full day of press, so I probably had five interviews back-to-back, and then the next day the same thing.”
Sheen admits that through the busy schedule and days full of interviews, "I never made enough time for Jesus because I was so busy. I wasn't reminding myself of God’s truth and filling my mind in anxious moments with God instead of believing these lies that aren’t from God.”
“When I’m busy like that, it’s really important to make sure that I’m putting God at the beginning of my day and the end of my day. And if I'm so busy throughout the day, at least I should do that.”
During her time in New York City, she said she had a lot of self-doubt. "I’d wake up with all these anxious thoughts like, ‘What does this person think of me?’ or 'What if I said something wrong in that interview?'”
“When I feel really anxious, I start to feel really bad physically. I will feel dizzy, lightheaded, nauseous, just all of these really bad feelings,” she added. “And then I start to freak myself out, that there’s actually something physically wrong with me.”
She said that she was having so much anxiety that she was late to see her friends who had planned to get together. "I was so anxious; I was so worried that if I left my hotel room I was going to have a panic attack, but I could also have a panic attack in my hotel room too. Still, before I left, I did not read my Bible; I did not really receive God’s peace."
Sheen ended up leaving the hotel when she called a friend, who started praying over her. "Everything goes quiet. I can’t hear anything. Like literally, I felt like I couldn’t hear. I could not see straight.”
She said the panic attack was the worst of her life, and thought she would need to go to the hospital. "It was so scary because it was like everything felt like it was going in phases. It was like I couldn’t remember what I said five seconds ago.”
While playing worship music on the television, she said, "I actually convinced myself I died. I literally was like I felt so out of body, I felt so disconnected from where I was. I literally was like, ‘oh my gosh, did I die.’”
After calling her "sisters in Christ" she said, she began to feel "the presence of God" and the "peace of Jesus.” Those girls played pivotal roles in "speaking out every single lie I believed." She said, "‘I believe that I’m going to die,’ ‘I believe that my anxiety is too big for God to handle,’ which is a lie. I know that’s not true, but that is a lie that was coming in my mind.”
She said that they went through every lie that Lola believed and repented against it. "I came out of agreement with what the enemy was telling me." The girls replaced, "every lie I was believing with Scripture.”
She went on to say, "There was a moment where the peace of God literally [...] washed over my mind. It felt like Jesus put His hand on me and instantly, every single feeling I felt was gone. It left. It literally was gone instantly. The second I start speaking Scripture over myself, the second I start replacing every single lie from the enemy with God’s truth, the power of God that I experienced was unexplainable.”
Ultimately, she saw God's power through her weakest moments. "I really cannot rely on my own strength in my weakest moment, I get to see the power of Christ.”
Sheen is excited to share more about her faith through weekly episodes of her podcast, HeavenlyBonded each Sunday.