It seems like an eternity ago that Charlie Sheen – all fueled up on tiger blood – was “winning.” Of course, his idea of “winning” was far different than pretty much everybody else’s since he ended up getting canned from Two and a Half Men, which some reports put him making upwards of $1.8 million per episode. Now, as he has reteamed with showrunner Chuck Lorre, Charlie Sheen says everything seems so “surreal” now. He’s referred to his Tiger Blood era as and struggles with drugs and alcohol as “possession” but seems to be doing a lot better these days, and is now sober.
Speaking with People, Charlie Sheen stated, “It’s one of those things that is so surreal that I keep hearing Al Michael’s famous hockey call: ‘Do you believe in miracles?!’ It’s a trip. When I won a Golden Globe for Spin City, the last place I expected to be was at that podium and I said, ‘This feels like a sober acid trip.’ And I think that quote rings true for what I’m going through with this experience.” This experience – that is, being cast on Chuck Lorre’s Bookie, which hit Max late last month – finds Sheen playing himself.
The relationship between Charlie Sheen and Chuck Lorre – who the actor once called a “contaminated little maggot” (at the minimum), part of the many reasons Sheen’s Two and a Half Men character being hit by a train – has somehow mended despite their highly publicized clashes. As Sheen puts it, “Chuck reached out he said, ‘Hey, it’s time to bury the hatchet. It’s time for us to give each other a hug. And remember the great stuff that we did together,’…Because we made a lot of people happy for a long time, and we left some really solid work behind us…Both of us were just beaming. Beaming.”
Charlie Sheen didn’t entirely fall from grace following his Two and a Half Men departure. Sure, there was yet another installment in the Scary Movie franchise but he also led a small screen twist on Anger Management, which most people probably tuned into to see the next phase of the warlock’s transformation. Somehow, it lasted 100 episodes.
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