Charlie Sheen's Manager Responds to Jenny McCarthy: Star Got HIV 'Long After' They Worked Together

One day after Charlie Sheen confirmed he has been living with HIV since 2011, Jenny McCarthy took to her SiriusXM radio show Dirty, Sexy, Funny to voice her opinion. She said actors must disclose health issues such as cold sores before taking a job, and wondered why that might not be the case for HIV.

"I don't even know how to feel about that. I'm like, 'Wait a second. If I have to be upfront a herpe, how could you not be upfront about HIV?" she questioned, suggesting there had been a double standard on their time together filming Two and a Half Men.

But in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, Sheen's manager Mark Burg says: "Charlie was infected long after he left Two and a Half Men and long after he worked with Jenny."

McCarthy, 43, played one of Sheen's love interest for eight episodes of the hit CBS show from 2007-2011. However, Sheen has maintained he wasn't diagnosed with HIV until after his run on the show. He went on to star in Anger Management from 2011-2013.

"I look back and I'm like, 'Okay, that would have been some valuable information.' Look how many people have played his love interest on the show," McCarthy said. "I mean, not that you can obviously get it through kissing, but still that's a big deal."

McCarthy went on to reflect further about her days on the show given what she knows now. 

"Playing his love interest on the show, even back in the day, I go, 'Ick! That's not fair. It's scary.' I have sympathy for him because, you know, he's sick and it's awful, but man he's going to have some major accountability with many people in his life," she said.