"forgetting" about Charlie Sheen as an abuser of women

When we were watching Charlie Sheen in class, I also got caught up in his kind of crazy but sort of compelling behavior; I was laughing too.  I completely forgot to say that one of the ways in Sheen acts out is in violence toward women, which is not so funny.  He ends his "committed" relationships by attacking his female partner, in one case trying to strangle her and in another holding a knife to her throat.  Are we giving him a pass on this because of his celeb. status?  Or is it because of what I said in my previous post?