Troubled actor Charlie Sheen has launched a blackmail action against a woman who accused him of abuse in a nationally televised interview.

Mr Sheen, 45, is suing adult film actress Capri Anderson, who was found locked in the bathroom of his Manhattan hotel suite last month. He filed a lawsuit suit hours after Ms Anderson went on ABC’s Good Morning America and accused him of using racial slurs and grabbing her by the throat.

Mr Sheen’s lawsuit claims Ms Anderson threatened to make false allegations about the star unless he paid her £630,000.

The suit says Ms Anderson’s allegations are false and calls them a “sensational tale”.

Mr Sheen’s filing pre-empts a lawsuit Ms Anderson said she would file against Mr Sheen for battery and false imprisonment.

The 45-year-old actor had a brief stay in hospital after security at the Plaza Hotel reported he was disorderly and broke furniture in his room.

The troubled star voluntarily went with authorities for a psychiatric evaluation and was released from the hospital the same day. His publicist Stan Rosenfield said at the time that Mr Sheen had an adverse reaction to medication.

Ms Anderson told Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos that she had been hired for £2,200 to join Sheen for dinner on October 25. She described as “absolutely untrue” reports that she expected to be paid for sex.

She said Mr Sheen became increasingly unruly as the evening wore on.

“It’s hard to say, being that it was my first time hanging out with him, if it was normal everyday behaviour for him,” she said.

After dinner at a restaurant, she accompanied the “fairly intoxicated” Mr Sheen back to his hotel suite, where “there was a little bit of romance, if you will”.

But in the room Mr Sheen became increasingly agitated, including making racial slurs she did not specify. He snorted “a white powdery substance”, she said.

“When it became really uncomfortable was when he put his hands around my neck,” Mr Anderson said. “At that point things began to very rapidly kind of fall apart and just really get out of hand.”

When she attempted to gather her belongings and leave, he threw a lamp and other objects at her, she said.

“Shocked and scared,” she locked herself in the bathroom and used her mobile phone to call a friend but not police. She explained to Stephanopoulos that she was not thinking clearly.