And so, you know, I think the growth for me post-meltdown or melt forward or melt somewhere - however you want to label it - it has to start with absolute ownership of my role in all of it," he said. Charlie Sheen is finally coming to terms with his infamous 2011 meltdown. The outlet said Sheen has regrets about his behavior. "There was 55 different ways for me to handle that situation, and I chose number 56. I'm so glad that I traded early retirement for a f-king hashtag.'" "My thought behind that is, 'Oh, yeah, great. That was so cool to be a part of and support and all that energy and, you know, we stuck it to the man," Sheen told Yahoo! Entertainment in comments posted on Thursday, Feb. "People have me, 'Hey, man, that was so cool, that was so fun to watch. Nowadays, he calls it a juvenile meltdown.
In March 2011, the highest-paid actor on TV was famously fired from his CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men after he publicly insulted its creator Chuck Lorre and went on a series of now-famous profanity laced rants. He even texted somebody at the show once, 'I think they gave the wrong guy too much money.Ten years ago, Charlie Sheen was "#winning." Only not really. "He was a guy who got everything he had ever wanted from it. "Charlie was never an insurrectionary guerrilla fighting the established order," Cryer continued. In fact, it'd just give them more to write about. The fact that he could very well be dead soon was not their concern. That he was actually just a human being with a monumental drug dependency mattered less to the pundits than his value as something to write about to alleviate their collective boredom. He was simply lashing out at the people who told him the party was over.
To some authors, commentators and bloggers - seemingly intelligent people - he was a rebel, a truth teller willing to poke his masters in the eye. Entertainment culture had become so stultifyingly repetitive and predictable that Charlie's antics felt like a breath of fresh air. "A curious phenomenon was bubbling up in the media as well. It was like watching HAL go haywire in 2001: A Space Odyssey." It was hard to comprehend what I was seeing because Charlie had always prided himself on getting it done on show night. "He could not remember anything he was supposed to say. We did a scene with the two of us sitting on a couch, and Charlie screwed up every line," he wrote. "Things didn't start smoothly once the show began. Sheen didn't take the news well and began "to get manic" backstage. bosses Bruce Rosenblum and Peter Roth after that week's Friday taping. In January 2011, Sheen was told that he was going to meet with Warner Bros.
("Charlie just wasn't hitting the jokes the way he used to," Cryer wrote.) After a few more months of this, the studio had had enough. In addition to looking "gaunt" and "sallow," his acting began to suffer. However, when he returned for Season 8 in 2010 it was clear that Sheen was not well. In February, Sheen entered rehab and even managed to secure a raise to $1.8 million an episode, three times what Cryer was being paid at the time. "Situations like this are rough on your sense of friendship and loyalty, because the allegations are serious, yet you know Charlie and Brooke are a drug-troubled pair, and Charlie's your longtime friend who was proud of his sobriety, but that doesn't mean he didn't do something to her, and you should give a woman the benefit of the doubt when she's been abused, and oh, boy." "I told him I would be happy to but that it sounded like Charlie wasn't sober anymore, and I hoped he'd get on track again," Cryer said. Cryer immediately reached out to his co-star, who seemed to be in surprisingly good spirits, and Sheen's manager requested that Cryer offer a public statement of support. Fast-forward a few years to Christmas Day 2009, when Sheen was arrested for spousal battery of his third wife Brook Mueller.