Emilio Estevez recalls dad Martin Sheen’s ‘drunk’ and ‘naked’ 1976 ‘Apocalypse Now’ meltdown

Emilio Estevez has shared some behind-the-scenes stories from his famous father’s time filming “Apocalypse Now” 49 years ago.

The “Breakfast Club” star, 62, opened up about his dad Martin Sheen’s infamous “meltdown” on the set of the Francis Ford Coppola film during Thursday’s episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.

“In the documentary ‘Hearts of Darkness,’ they collapsed time and portrayed his breakdown, sort of, toward the end of the schedule, when in fact it was early in the schedule when my dad was celebrating his birthday in August,” Estevez explained, referencing the 1991 documentary about the Vietnam War epic.

“So, it was Aug. 3, and we had come,” he continued. “I had gotten there in July, so he has this meltdown on set because he was celebrating his birthday and he was drinking.”

In “Apocalypse Now,” Sheen’s character, Capt. Benjamin L. Willard, gets drunk and suffers a breakdown in a hotel room. It has since been revealed that the breakdown wasn’t part of Coppola’s script and that Sheen, now 84, was actually intoxicated at the time.

“Francis had him isolated in his room, and I was there. I watched it happen,” Estevez continued. “And I was there when they carted him out, and he was ranting and raging and screaming.”