In his latest tirade Charlie Sheen lambasted his father, Martin Sheen, for recent comments comparing addiction to cancer, vows there will be another season of Two and a Half Men and states belligerently that he is not a drug addict.
Additionally, Sheen escalated his attack on Two and a Half Men’s producer and creator Chuck Lorre and CBS, calling him a tyrant and bully while claiming the network has not protected him despite the fact it has earned a multi-billion dollar fortune from his talents.
The star invited RadarOnline.com into his Los Angeles mansion on Saturday for his first interview and accepted the challenge to prove to the world that he is not using illicit or prescription drugs, taking AND PASSING several different types of drug tests.
“Jeez, dad… shut it!” Charlie says when asked about his reaction to Martin Sheen’s recent interview in which he compared Sheen’s addiction to cancer. “Okay, Pop walk through a cancer ward right now and find any of those mother f*ckers who look like me,” he adds, clearly agitated. He bristles about his father’s comments: “Sounds poetic but it’s rooted in bollocks.”
Addressing the issue that has all of Hollywood talking, Charlie says that he does not believe he is an addict. “No. No, I don’t, because that’s a word and a thing that they tried to stick on me for 22 years. 5 per cent success. 100 per cent success. Do the math. Look at the scoreboard. The numbers don’t lie,” he says, tying the term “addiction” back into his recent rejection of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Probed further about what he thinks addiction is, Charlie said: “I don’t know, I don’t care, I just know it’s not a part of my brain today.”
About being clean today, the Charlie says: “It’s just a choice I’m making today. Just a choice.” Asked why he made that “choice,” Charlie declared: “I feel better. I got bored with those other things. It was time to do something different and I had this epiphanous moment of ‘I’m 45 with 5 kids’ and it was time to explore some different realities.”
One reality he is exploring is the one in which Two and a Half Men is shut down for the rest of the season – with its future beyond that in doubt. Asked if there will be a Season Nine, he replies: “Absolutely and it’s going to be brilliant. Because we’re going to do it differently. Watch me.”
Charlie concedes he has not spoken to CBS or Warner Bros. recently and attacks his bosses at those organizations, claiming they have treated him like “an unwelcome guest for eight years.”
Asked in what sense he has been treated this way, Charlie says: “Just that anything I do, any condition I show up in, if it doesn’t fit into the realm of their judgment then it’s not good enough or it needs to be questioned.”
Howard asked the star if he ever showed up for work unfit. “Unfit is uh… unfit. I don’t know, I think that would depend on how they saw me,” Charlie answered. “I never missed a mark or blew a line, I know that. I was maybe tardy a couple days but, so my plane was delayed, you know? But as far as showing up in any condition, real or imagined, I’m an absolute pro and I deliver the goods and, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”
The no-holds-barred interview will leave Hollywood in no doubt that Charlie is clearly ready to continue his war with CBS and Warner Bros and show co-creator Lorre. “They did not rush to my aid,” Charlie says of CBS. “They’ve not protected me. They’ve not said ‘Mr. Lorre I’m sorry you’re a clown, bye bye. We’re taking care of dude because he’s a rock star, a legend.’ “Why isn’t anybody like rushing to my aid, rushing to protect me, rushing to protect their most valuable commodity? The guy they say – the guy who Peter Roth (President) says, ‘he keeps the light on at Warner Bros.’”
Charlie’s extreme lifestyle includes dating porn stars and prostitutes and he says that nobody has the right to judge him.
“As (Marlon) Brando says to my dad in Apocalypse (Now), ‘You have the right to kill me, you do not have the right to judge me.’ There you go,” he says.
Asked about his co-stars and crew losing their salary, the actor reflects: “Well I feel bad but it’s not my fault so I’m not going to make any apologies.”
He says he has spoken to Jon Cryer and also Angus T. Jones’ mother. “They understand it,” Charlie insists about his deadlock over the show. “They’re sad, they’re upset. But then once I give them a little back story they’re like, ‘Wow, we did not know that.’”
Charlie did acknowledge that he was pressured by others to clean up his act, before the show was shut down. Asked if his decision to change his lifestyle was forced upon him, Charlie said: “I had already made it and then it was brought into the fold quicker by others and it’s fine, because I was the only guy in my life that could have delivered that kind of power to solidify it… when the suits rolled in, you know.”
And he refuses to be lured into stating that he will never return to his previous lifestyle and will stay “clean.” Charlie says CBS top honcho Les Moonves, the network’s President and Chief Executive Officer, called at one point and complimented him.
“Les called me outside of Mr Chow’s, his cleanup hitter, he said “You’re my cleanup hitter”, I’m in perfect shape and sitting on the bench. I got prepared, and now they’re unprepared.” The fight against Lorre, CBS and everyone else in his way, will go on, Charlie vows.
Charlie Sheen is clearly ready to perform – on Two and a Half Men or elsewhere – at this point he is being ‘locked out’ because he insulted Chuck Lorre. Well too bad, so sad Chuck Lorre – grow a set of balls and move on.
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