Rep: Hernia causes Charlie Sheen's medical emergency

Los Angeles - Actor Charlie Sheen was a condition "stable" when taken by ambulance from his home in Los Angeles hospital in pain, associated with a hernia on Thursday morning, his spokesman said.

"Charlie had a hernia condition for some time," said the representative of the Stan Rosen Field. "I was told by the person who made the 911 call, was associated with a hernia."

Reporters and paparazzi converged Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after the news hit the Internet that Sheen was there in the emergency room Thursday morning. The hospital refused to provide any information about the actor, who stands rampant media speculation about the condition of Sheen.

The tension eased later in the day Rosenfield said his client was in stable condition and was treated for a hernia.

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman confirmed that the emergency medical unit was called to the address off Mulholland Drive, which is believed to house Sheen, 06:35 on Thursday. Federal privacy law prohibits the release of more information, "he said.

This is the second trip to the hospital for three months in Sheen.

He spent several hours in a hospital in New York in October after police responded to a call early in the morning on "an emotionally disturbed person" at the Plaza Hotel, a source of law enforcement told the time. Sheen has a representative blamed "negative reaction allergic" to a drug for hospitalization.

Sheen, the son of actor Martin Sheen, star of the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men."