He could party all night,

show up an hour late,

breeze through makeup,

saying hello to everybody,

and then be the cool guy in the room.

But there's a lot going on  there that he's covering.

Had a a few cocktails, did we?

Me, too.

Just like the character Charlie.

The real Charlie can't seem  to stay out of trouble.

How does an actor do more partying?

Alcohol.

Sorry, I'm so here.

No, you're cool, man.

Substances.

I probably took more than than  than anybody could survive

and sheer delinquency

than most humans would survive

and still do this.

And the winner is Charlie Sheen.

Charlie was raking in dollars in episodes,

making him the highest paid TV actor in history.

I got a third of that.

Two and a Half Men remains the  highest rated sitcom on TV.

If he was impaired,

he was very good at hiding it.

He was still delivering.

I hadn't started drinking yet.

I took an ice cube and I shoved it up my—

Born Carlos Irwin Estevez in 1965.

Charlie Sheen was introduced to Hollywood young.

And people say,

"So, you know, growing up on sets,

you must have like dreamed about being an actor."

Terminate the Colonel's command.

Terminate.

I'm like, "Yeah,"

until I got to the set

and almost killed my dad.

Terminate with extreme prejudice.

I was 10.

Yeah.

And I I was there so long that I turned 11,

because the joke on the set was

that they were starting to  call it, uh, Apocalypse Never.

And the film had to overcome so many obstacles

and so many hurdles,

from natural disasters

to a very intense health crisis  that my dad went through.

But that crisis actually fueled

what would become the  movie's iconic opening scene.

I don't see any method at all.

That particular day was my 36th birthday,

and I was wildly out of control with alcohol,

and going through a very deep emotional catharsis.

You wrote about your dad.

His body may have been with us.

The guy we called dad was not.

Yeah.

I remember drinking all day,

and it was night when we got to that scene.

Francis really wanted to call it a wrap,

and I said, "Well, let's keep going here.

We might, something might happen."

It sure as hell something happens.

Something—

Not only was Charlie exposed  from a young age to Hollywood,

but that chaos that comes with it.

I cut myself.

I've bled, uh, quite a lot.

And Francis tried to stop the scene,

and I begged him to continue rolling.

And I said, "Please, I must do this for myself.

I beg you to leave it going."

And he did.

I could see that it had  nothing to do with the scene.

It had everything to do with his father,

because he had died close to that,

that there was a combination  of the stress of the movie,

the loss of his father.

Tons of boom.

He had a heart attack making the movie.

At 10 years old,

Charlie Sheen saw firsthand the  way Hollywood rewards actors

for hitting rock bottom.

We saw that it was like,  "Oh, damn. It went there."

And how hard it can be to come out the other side.

Start throwing the ball.

The first day it might have been at five feet,

and the next day it might have been at 10 feet.

He credits me in helping him during his rehab.

From Charlie's perspective,

acting had physically and  emotionally wrecked his father.

That's not a job you're just going  to like wrap your arms around

and say, "When can I start?"

But somehow acting didn't lose its appeal for him.

In fact, when he returned  from the Apocalypse Now set,

he started making his own home movies,

which were naturally influenced by his father.

We're just copying, you know,

if he was building houses,

we'd be probably banging nails somewhere.

Charlie's father was far from the only famous name

who influenced him during his upbringing.

I was looking at your Super 8 films,

and I was thinking, yeah, I  remember this part of my life.

That resonates with me so powerfully.

Killing time with your friends.

Only in your case, your friends are  Sean Penn and his brother Chris,

Chris, your brother Emilio,

Rob and Chad Lowe,

a group known in the mid-'80s as the Brat Pack.

I mean, it's a who's who of very famous actors

that you're clowning around with.

But Sheen's carefree youth wouldn't last long.

First joint was at 10,

but it was Malibu, man.

Oh, and your friend's dad was growing it.

It was like right across the gully.

But then the booze didn't show up till, you know,

cuz nobody could get any booze,

like in junior high school,

they call middle school rather,

um, but it was just beer.

High school, everything changed.

There was too many people.

There were too much responsibility.

And then I got the car, you know,

you get a car,

and suddenly you're not at the  mercy of where the bus stops

or tells you to get off.

We'd start at the Hard Rock Cafe,

and then we'd like get, you know,

wherever the night took us,

to all the VIP lounges

and all the special places

where you, you know, try to  hang out with the untouchables.

With the Brat Pack for friends

and little to no parental oversight,

things escalated quickly.

I got arrested in high school.

I got arrested for credit card forgery,

and dad was out of town.

So, he didn't even know.

Beyond getting in trouble,

Charlie had no real future ahead of him.

They didn't let me take the final

to get the the few credits I needed to graduate.

I think I was a point and a half short.

I think the term they use for that is expelled.

And even in his social life, he was a nobody.

You'd have been around, the breath,

but no one knows who you are yet.

It felt awful.

I was just, you know, taking up the rear.

The worst was when all the attention  from all all the pretty girls,

and they would all go home with them,

and I would just go home,

and it was, my inner bear had been poked,

and it lit a fire you could see from the moon.

So Sheen decided to pursue  the lifestyle he idolized.

I'm going to give the acting thing a shot,

and I was looking at that just like,

if I could just get a job that  everybody lines up to go see,

then that's how my nights will end.

I mean, seriously, that's  kind of was the inspiration.

You are, as usual.

Sheen got little resistance from his parents

even as he changed his name.

I I sat with him and I said,

I I really want to use Sheen.

It's got a bit of a ring to it, you know?

Emilio's already using Estevez,

and that way you've got both  bookends of your heritage

represented out in the world.

The stage name Charlie Sheen was born,

the first of many ways his career  would diverge from his brother's

and parallel his father's.

The first real casualty of war is innocence.

The first real movie about  the war in Vietnam is Platoon.

I didn't realize that Emilio was the first choice

that Oliver Stone wanted for Platoon,

and Oliver gave him the script.

And Emilio tells a story that he was  jogging on the beach with Tom Cruise,

and Tom had read the script also,

and they were comparing notes about the script,

and neither of them liked it.

After Emilio dropped out, Charlie wanted the role.

Your first audition with Oliver Stone,

and him basically saying, "You suck."

That was fine, because I knew it was bad.

Stone told Charlie he was too mannered

and needed to do more work,

and promptly moved on to candidates

like Keanu Reeves and Kyle MacLachlan.

The script didn't read like it  was going to be a masterpiece.

The the script read kind of like a docudrama,

sort of movie of the week.

After Reeves and MacLachlan turned down the role,

Sheen auditioned a second time,

and at this point he had beefed up his resume.

This time, Stone wanted to cast Sheen,

but only if co-star Willem Dafoe approved.

Even after being flown out to the Philippines,

Sheen wasn't guaranteed the role

until meeting with Dafoe.

And after he did, Stone gave him the verdict.

Willem Dafoe, somebody once wrote,

"Hell is the impossibility of reason.

That's what this place feels like."

What I also think about with  Apocalypse is then, you know,

10 years later, going back to that  same far away land to do Platoon,

the son of the guy, a decade later,

does his own Vietnam saga and narrates it.

That's, I mean, what would you  place the odds of that happening?

I'm like, the age of the universe squared, right?

And just like Apocalypse, it was, um,

it was an intense three weeks  in the Philippine jungle.

You mother—

I didn't have any fun doing it.

Yeah, it was, uh, there was  so much pressure on that set.

Way more pressure than there is  to hit that subscribe button.

Nobody cares about the new guys.

They don't even want to know your name.

You went only by your character name,

and whatever rank you were in the platoon

is where you fell on that on that ladder.

In his memoir, Sheen wrote that  the production marked the beginning

of his hair-on-fire obsession with cocaine.

And this was a significant moment in  Sheen's eventual hectic career phase,

as he was about to find out  how far he can push his luck.

What do you care if your brother ditches school?

I didn't know really anything about the movie,

so I wasn't really like, oh my god.

I thought I was just going in for a cameo.

Jennifer got me the job.

She told John Hughes, "I think I  know who should play this role."

My friend Charlie Sheen thought  I was going to audition.

Didn't.

He just looked at how I'd  prepared and what I was wearing,

and said, "Oh, great. We'll see you in a week."

You would have spent a little  more time dealing with yourself,

a little less time worrying  about what your brother does.

I went method,

and just decided that I would  show up with actual fatigue.

So, you're pissed off cuz he ditches  and doesn't get caught, is that it?

Sheen's idea of preparing for the  role of a tired-looking character

was literally depriving himself of  sleep the night before the shoot.

It was a great idea.

It was method.

When I finally fell asleep at like 3:00 a.m.

until he miscalculated.

I overslept,

and then I showed up just not at the time  they said I was supposed to be there.

It's, it's pretty funny, because  cuz Jennifer was like really mad.

She was on a heater when I rolled in,

in those first few shots in that police  station where you see her, you know,

that that that that is all genuine.

But then next person I see is John Hughes,

and he was, he was awesome.

He was just like, "Oh, good.  You're here. Let's get started."

Did that give you any kind of like, "Well,  I can do this and get away with things"?

Maybe subconsciously.

Subconsciously or not,

this empowered Sheen to push  the limits even further.

Stock is plummeting.

From the director of Platoon.

I could lose my license.

Wall Street director Oliver Stone  liked Sheen so much in Platoon

that he cast him in another project,

this time opposite established  star Michael Douglas.

Greed is good.

Greed works.

And his own father.

What I see is a jealous old machinist

who can't stand the fact that his sons  become more successful than he has.

What you see is a guy who  never measured a man's success

by the size of his wallet.

Wall Street was the ultimate test  of Sheen's leading man potential.

But at the same time,

there was a lot of distractions,

a lot of fun stuff going on.

He had made a friend who took  partying to a whole other level.

Our friendship, that's the symbolic springboard

into the next chapter of complete and total chaos.

And I wasn't really bringing  my A-game during Wall Street.

And yet the number one or two talked about  film like out in the streets is Wall Street.

It changed my whole career because of that movie.

Even Sheen didn't understand it.

It's just so strange that— yeah.

And it's cool.

Despite his partying during this time,

consequences never showed at all in his career.

It only continued to grow.

I noticed that there was a pattern,

to go through all this,

come out of the fire,

and there be an opportunity on the  on the immediate other side of it.

Man, the the place goes crazy for you, don't they?

It's a little embarrassing.

And imagine what that did to my head.

Sheen and Cage's consequence-free lifestyle

is best summed up in one incident.

We wound up on an airplane to San Francisco,

and everybody was high as—

then it happened.

Cage got a hold of the captain's  PA microphone mid-flight

and jokingly announced to the passengers

that he was the pilot and the  plane was losing altitude.

Everything's under control,

and then the blower winds up with Cage's grip.

He was the captain, impersonating the captain,

that he's not feeling well

and he's losing control of the airplane,

and it was right out of the movies,

you hear people start screaming.

We were in a panic,

and he didn't know the amount  of cocaine I I had on me.

Yes. 1.3 g maybe.

No, it was like two, two ounces.

Yeah. Two ounces is a lot.

Yeah, in a fat ziploc,

the inside of my inner thigh.

But somehow when they landed to a swarm of cops,

I just very gingerly, very  politely, very delicately, kindly

talked my way out of going to airport jail.

Then what?

I'll be arrested, put in airport jail.

One of them was, a two guys were Cage fans,

a couple guys were Sheen fans,

and we could feel it start to turn,

the worm in our favor,

and that's when the first  wave of relief kind of, okay,

this is not going to be a life-changing evening.

Yet another experience of the  perks of the job, I guess.

I think anybody else that would have been, uh—

But instead of being a wake-up call,

the experience seemed to make  Sheen a little too comfortable

with breaking the rules.

By 1993, Sheen had been paying  for call girls for over a decade.

Fact, I lost my virginity to  a pro when I was 15 years old.

What do you think was the thing that you have

that made you say, "You know what?

I'm going to have with 47,000 women."

Never going to say no to any of it.

When you put it like that,

it's not like it's somebody else's life.

It was more about navigating  each situation, scenario,

as they presented themselves.

Even so, Sheen's exploits with women

were an endeavor that required  a business partnership.

The Hollywood madam was a '90s tabloid sensation

known for running an upscale  prostitution ring in LA.

She was really cool.

She was really smart.

She was pretty business-savvy.

For a while, their transactions were uneventful.

She was never sloppy.

But Sheen couldn't say the same.

When he was too drunk to get cash from the bank,

he paid Heidi with a traveler's check,

complete with his signature.

That's the only reason his name came out,

because Sheen had bought services for his friends.

He was potentially facing jail time.

They stuck me in a room with no doors, basically,

and that's what they do when they, you know,

when their star witness has the  goods on on their prime suspect.

You know, the stuff they were  threatening was pretty serious.

But he wasn't the investigation's real target.

LAPD has said they are not going  after the alleged customers.

Instead, Sheen was offered  immunity to testify against Fleiss.

Charlie testified in 1995

that he spent more than $50,000 on  workers supplied by the Hollywood madam.

Well, that's what they they knew of.

That's what they had on the books.

You say sex went hand in hand with your drug use.

It did.

Yeah.

It was a girlfriend who first introduced  Sheen to crack cocaine in 1992.

It was indescribable.

But in that same breath,

deathly afraid of how far  this could get away from me.

And his acting career wasn't a source of passion,

but a means to fuel his habit.

And it was just doing work just  to get the dough that I needed

to keep paying the dealers or the  bartenders or the girls or the drivers,

or the, you know, you just all all  the all the supporting characters.

And his addiction was finally affecting his work.

A 32-hour cocaine nosebleed once  forced production to a standstill.

When he bled onto his shirt during a take,

he demanded that the footage be destroyed.

They could see the condition I was in.

Didn't like call my agent  or call my mom or somebody

and say, "Hey, uh, the last thing  this dude needs to be doing right now

is trying to pull off a movie performance."

After four years of sobriety,

Sheen relapsed in 1996,

and in spite of his condition, he kept working,

and not with ease.

During the shooting for this film,

he was in such bad shape

that he physically couldn't keep his eyes open.

So, I need a, I need a cup with ice.

One landed in front of me magically,

and I picked it up and I  said, "Where's the bathroom?"

And just belined it.

Just said, "I I have a hunch  this is going to work."

And just keistered one.

It worked.

Yeah, it did.

It's in the movie.

Once again, Sheen delivered  a film-worthy performance

even as his body was falling apart.

But he could only keep this up for so long.

And after a near OD

and an increasing track  record of unpredictability,

again, on the other side of it all,

Hollywood had an opportunity waiting for him.

I don't remember you.

I barely remember 1994.

Sheen landed the role after a year of sobriety,

replacing Michael J. Fox,

welcoming the consistency and normalcy

that a TV shooting schedule gave him

as opposed to film.

And the first episode, in effect,  became Charlie's plea to America.

Give me one more chance.

And he embraced that chance.

Sheen was the first one on set every morning

and the last to leave at night.

And his effort was rewarded.

And the winner is Charlie Sheen, Spin City.

And when Spin City was  cancelled two seasons later,

a new role emerged for Sheen

that would create acting success and chaos,

unlike which Hollywood had ever seen.

We presented the idea to CBS,

and they said, "It's a cool idea.  What would you see in the lead?"

And we went, "Well, it's kind of a  Charlie Sheen kind of character."

And Wendy Trilling said, "Uh,  can you get Charlie Sheen?"

I said, "We can try."

We didn't have a script.

We just had the idea, you know,

decadent, wealthy playboy takes  in divorced brother with child.

He said, "I don't know.

I can't make a decision without seeing a script."

We said to Charlie on a Friday,

he created this environment with a dream character

in a in a in a in an amazing show.

On Monday, he called us and said, "I'm in."

All he asked for me was to just like, you know,

just show up, be responsible, know your  lines, hit your marks, do your job.

And then I turn it into that.

In 2001, Sheen fell off the wagon,

drinking and taking pills.

And partly for an odd reason,  beyond just fame and pressure,

it starts to turn into,

it feels like the same four  people in the same five rooms

telling the same six jokes, you know,

and that's not an insult to the writing.

So, how are you feeling?

It depends. What day is it?

It it wasn't challenging,

and that's when I got lazy,

and that's when I needed, I guess,  to just make it more difficult.

You know, you know what the problem is?

The women, the drinking.

You guys look at me and you think it's easy.

I couldn't drink heavily on the set.

I could sip on the set,

and just kind of keep a little fuel in the engine,

just to not, you know, get uh shaky or sweaty.

By replacing cocaine with alcohol and pills,

Sheen thought he could control  his addiction this time around.

And for a while, he could,

as he was still delivering.

He had incredible precision as a performer,

and he was still getting it done.

I can't speak to his personal situation,

but I can tell you that,  uh, he showed up on Monday

and we had a great week.

If he was impaired, he was very good at hiding it.

But eventually, Sheen's substance abuse  was about more than just a challenge.

Then the guy builds this incredible world for me.

Oh, it changed my life.

And then that, for some reason, you know,

I decided that, you know,  I needed to burn it down.

In 2007, after season four,

he returned to the drug he had  kept at bay for nine years.

I remember the night that nine years of no crack

came to a tumbling, spectacular close.

She's in the bathroom with this girl,

and I can hear him doing it,

and I start banging on the door,

and they're like, "Don't be a party pooper."

And I said, "If you're going  to do this in my house,

you need to do it properly.

Let me show you how to cook this up."

Sheen was once again completely out of control,

and he wasn't able to keep  it under wraps for very long.

The judge ordered Sheen to rehab.

It was at this stage that Two  and a Half Men went on hiatus.

But just like always,

Sheen's debauchery never ceased  his career opportunities.

Just three weeks later,

Sheen returned to film the rest of season seven.

And I got the call,

we want to, we want to renegotiate the  giant contract for season eight and nine.

But by then he was barely functioning.

I said, I I don't, I don't think so.

And they're like, "What? You don't  think you're going to get paid?"

I'm like, "No, I don't, I don't  think, I don't think we should do it.

I think seven is like plenty."

Sheen knew that staying on  the show was a bad idea.

And I said on the phone, that talked  to, you know, Mark Berg, my manager,

and I said, "Mark, if I go back there,  man, it's going to go really bad.

I just know it. I got a bad feeling, Mark."

Given his substance abuse,

he didn't feel that injecting  more money and responsibility

into the situation was right.

When the addict himself says,  "Let's draw the line here,"

you'd think CBS would say,  "Okay, time to stop this."

But for them, there was just  too much money at stake.

Charlie's a cash cow.

Season seven alone generated roughly $160  million in advertising revenue for CBS,

and they didn't want to risk  losing that by dropping its star.

Charlie Sheen is Two and a Half Men.

So they threw a massive amount of money at him.

$1 million an episode,

and he declined.

Sheen genuinely wasn't trying to negotiate.

He was trying to say no.

And the more he said no, the  more money they offered him,

cuz the head of CBS came to you and said,

"We don't want you to leave so bad,  we'll give you two million an episode."

Yeah, I I got you kind of crowbarred into it.

His negotiations went off the charts

because his life was falling apart.

Me, whose life was pretty  good, I got a third of that.

Sheen was winning as the highest paid actor in TV,

making nearly $2 million an episode  on the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men.

But his gut feeling about  staying on the show was right.

I was just the wrong guy in that moment,

in that pocket of time,

to like give that much money to, man.

When production began on season eight,

Sheen's behavior had gone from  noticeable to a big problem.

Oh man. Oh man, I forgot my line.

After seven years, he was no longer the guy

who could party every night and  still show up and crush it on set.

Warner Brothers documented  that he was late to the set,

having come directly from the airport,

and he missed the next day's rehearsal altogether,

also noting that he had difficulty  remembering his lines and hitting his marks.

And this caused concern from  the crew and from his co-star.

And if you wonder what it's like to  work with Charlie Sheen for eight years,

when I started, I had hair.

At the time, I was not angry.

I was just scared every day that I was  going to read about, uh, Charlie being dead.

We were really concerned.

It got to a point where Sheen could  barely stay standing through a take,

asking the director to to to  move my mark a little bit,

just so I could be next to a  piece of furniture, a table,

so you could lean on it.

Yeah. So it wouldn't fall over.

Not only was he barely standing on the set,

but was also inviting negative press off of it.

In October, he made headlines for trashing a room

at New York's Plaza Hotel  in an alleged drunken rage.

CBS and Warner Brothers clung to  the payday of Two and a Half Men.

But it wasn't sustainable.

In the early morning of January 27th, 2011,

according to Warner Brothers legal documentation,

Mr. Mr. Sheen was rushed to  the hospital by ambulance

after a neighbor made a 911 call.

Several persons present at  Mr. Sheen's home reported

that Mr. Sheen had engaged in  heavy drinking and drug usage

during a marathon party that  had lasted two days straight.

Bruce Rosenblum, the president of  Warner Brothers Television Group,

and Leslie Moonves, the president and CEO of CBS,

personally visited Mr. Sheen  in his home on January 28th,

just after he left the hospital.

They told him that they were profoundly concerned

for his health, safety, and well-being,

and that they were shutting  down production temporarily

so that he could enter a rehabilitation facility.

Warner Brothers had an airplane  waiting to take him to such a facility.

But rather than getting on Warner Brothers' plane,

Mr. Sheen refused to leave his home for treatment.

He instead insisted that he  would seek treatment there,

in what he later described as  his own Sober Valley Lodge.

Production was scheduled  to resume on February 28th,

but Sheen abruptly decided  to return two weeks early.

They said, "Uh, you get ready, we'll get ready."

And I got ready. I went back.

Nobody's there.

By this point, Chuck Lorre  was running out of patience.

The showrunner had become  known for his vanity cards

that flash a casual personal  message for a split second

at the end of his episodes.

The vanity card on that night's Two and  a Half Men was a clear shot at Sheen,

stating, "I don't drink. I  don't smoke. I don't do drugs.

I don't have crazy, reckless sex with strangers.

If Charlie Sheen outlives me,  I'm going to be really pissed."

That's when Sheen went on a rampage on the radio.

I embarrassed him in front  of his children and the world

by healing at a pace that that  his unevolved mind cannot process.

Okay, and I've spent, I think,  close to the last decade,

I don't know, effortlessly and magically  converting your your tin cans into pure gold.

And the gratitude I get in  this get is, is this charlatan

chose not to do his job, which is to write.

But one comment went particularly over the line.

It's nothing of deplorable  that a certain Chaim Levine—

yeah, that's Chuck's real name—

mistook this rockstar for his  own selfish exit strategy.

The highest paid actor on  TV began his day on radio

calling out Two and a Half Men creator  Chuck Lorre using his Hebrew name,

and what some say was an anti-Semitic attack.

Warner Brothers' response was  swift, as in within hours.

Just days before production  was scheduled to resume,

Mr. Sheen called into a radio show,

and during an extended rant exhibited conduct

that made it clear he was in no  condition to perform his duties

as the comedic lead in the show.

Later that day he gave an interview

in which he attacked Mr. Lorre personally,

calling him, among other things,  a stupid, stupid little man

and a [ __ ] punk piece of turd and clown.

Mr. Sheen also stated that he  violently hates and owns Mr. Lorre.

Mr. Mr. Sheen publicly challenged Mr. Lorre  to fight him in the octagon during his rants.

Mr. Sheen also repeatedly and derogatorily  referred to Mr. Lorre as Chaim Levine,

apparently linking his personal hatred  of Mr. Lorre to his Hebrew name.

Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen's  statements, conduct, and condition,

CBS and Warner Brothers Television  have decided to discontinue production

of Two and a Half Men for  the remainder of the season.

After nearly 25 years of partying,  substances, and pushing his luck,

Sheen finally had to face severe  consequences in his career.

He was fired and replaced.

He did not take it well.

I didn't know you were so sensitive.

Sorry if I offended you.

I just thought, you know, after  you wailing on me for eight years

that I could like take a few shots back.

I didn't know you were going to  take your little ball and go home.

Sheen retreated into his Mulholland Drive mansion

and built a strange life around himself.

What goes on in Sober Valley Lodge?

All things beautiful.

There's healing here.

There's laughter.

There's children.

There's, there's beautiful women and perfect food.

And it's just, we just win.

These are his two girlfriends who live with him.

One is a porn star.

The other is a former graphic designer.

Danny. He calls them the goddesses.

These are my girlfriends.

These are the women that I love

that have completed the three parts of my heart.

From there, Sheen developed an  intense manic online presence.

You borrow my brain for five seconds and  just be like, "Dude, can't handle it,"

because it just, it fires in a way that  is maybe not from this terrestrial realm.

Sheen was willing to give interviews nonstop,

and they were never short of wild sound bites.

And I was banging seven G  rocks and finishing them,

because that's how I roll.

You don't worry that you're going to  die when you take that many drugs.

Dying for fools.

I'm too smart to do that.

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.

It's not available, cuz if  you try it once, you will die.

Your face will melt off,

and your children will weep  over your exploded body.

Um, too much.

Some are saying that you're bipolar.

I'm bi-winning. I win here and I win there.

Now what? It's disturbing  and it's uncharacteristic.

It's a condition we call hypomania.

It's an inflated sense of self grandiosity.

I'm tired of pretending like I'm not  bitching a total freaking rockstar from Mars.

Pressured speech, distractibility.

I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.

A belief in special powers.

I got tiger blood, man.

It just captivated the world.

I think it had a lot to do with  a multi-generational connection

that I had built over the years.

I think people felt they were curious as hell.

Sheen followed the public momentum

and announced a nationwide tour.

I am bringing my violent torpedo of truth.

Defeat is not an option.

Show up to you in the battlefield.

If you're winning, I'll see you there.

It was essentially, it was 21  cities in like 24 days with no act.

That's what it was, man.

Tickets sold out in minutes,

but the response to his opening  night in Detroit was, well—

I had an option after the Detroit massacre

of flying to Chicago or taking the bus.

And I said, uh, I need, I need those  seven or eight hours on the bus.

And they're like, "Why?"

I said, "Cuz I'm going to  rewrite the entire show."

I could have just kind of barricaded  myself with a pad of paper and a pen

and just went to town.

Much got through the tour,

but what he really learned was  that he wanted to be on TV again.

But he had become such a high-risk talent

that any contract he signed would have a catch.

Charlie Sheen died and went to FX.

Anger Management premieres June 28th, only on FX.

The only reason I did it, because I I  wanted to show those guys across town

that I was horrible again.

Anger Management featured a  unique 10/90 trigger deal,

meaning if the first 10 episodes  hit a specific ratings threshold,

it would automatically be  renewed for another 90 episodes.

We got into that 90, and it  was about, it was about 20.

No, what am I saying? It's probably  like like nine or 11 into it,

I started feeling exactly the same  that I felt on Two and a Half,

going past that point.

And I knew my enthusiasm and  passion had, had an expiration date.

I tried, but I I didn't like the show enough.

You may think I'm losing, but I'm not. I'm—

Anyway, you get the idea.

You didn't like the final product.

I didn't.

And I I stopped caring.

Charlie, we have a problem.

Why can't you ever come in here and  say, "Charlie, we have a solution"?

Anger Management got through all 100 episodes,

but its ratings and critical  reviews were unimpressive.

I want you. Okay.

It was Sheen's last major acting job to date,

but something else would  keep him in the public eye.

I'm here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive.

When were you diagnosed?

Uh, roughly four years ago.

In that time, Sheen fought tooth  and nail to keep the news quiet.

I have to put a, a stop, this  onslaught, this barrage of attacks

and of, of subtruths, very  harmful and material stories

that threaten the health of, of so many others,

which is couldn't be farther from the truth.

You have said that you have been the  victim of betrayal and extortion,

that a lot of people have actually  demanded money to stay silent,

but enough to bring it into the millions.

We're talking about shakedowns.

Are you still paying some of these people?

Not after today. I'm not.

He was immediately put on treatment,

strong antiviral drugs which  have suppressed the virus.

We're petrified about Charlie.

We're, we're so, so anxious  that if he was overly depressed,

if he was abusing substances,

he would forget these pills.

This was a valid concern,

since at this point Sheen still wasn't sober.

I was Charlie Taylor.

It was so crazy to the point where  I didn't think he was going to live.

Every single rehab, intervention,  and sobriety attempt had failed,

until someone had a wild idea.

His drug counselor at the time told me,

"Is there any way that you can  make it less potent for him?"

So, little by little, I started  to reduce the amount of coke

that I was using to cook the crap.

Sheen was weaned off the  drug without even knowing it.

It, it stopped working.

It just lost, lost its luster.

It lost its effect.

Sheen was finally done with hard drugs,

but alcohol was another story.

In 2017, a wake-up call  came from his own daughter.

So, I'm on like my third  Macallan coffee or whatever,

and my daughter Sam calls and says,

"Hey, what time are we leaving to to go where?"

She had a hair appointment,

and it was a Sunday, I think, or a Saturday.

And I've never, ever mixed  the cops and the wheel ever.

I've never had a DUI.

And so, I called Tony.

I said, "Tony, you know, I can't drive.

You got to help me get Sam to this thing."

There was a moment in the car driving back,

and she was just kind of sitting back there,

and it was just this thing about why  isn't dad driving again, you know,

why is there always—

and I was like, "What am I doing?"

I sat inside of that for a while,

because it didn't feel good,

and I, and I thought, "Okay, what  can I do to stop feeling like this?"

The math is pretty simple at that point.

The next day I just woke up and  said, "I'm done," and didn't care.

I wasn't going to care how I felt physically.

Was just going to like just grit and bear it.

It happened to be my oldest  daughter Cassandra's birthday

when I quit, December 12th.

It was just like, "Okay, that's all aligned."

That was in 2017,

and he's been sober ever since.

Maybe time heals all wounds.

It does in this case.

Is there any Chuck Lorre relationship now?

Oh, yeah.

He asked me to do a cameo in the the  show we had on HBO called Bookie.

You know this guy? He's my second cousin.

My last name is Estevez. Do the math.

I managed to get him on the phone,

and he was grateful for the offer.

He was funny, and he was in the same place.

Let's move on.

Let's close the door on this,  this darkness that that happened,

and and do something fun.

In addition to Lorre, he also made  amends with his comedic wingman.

The two did not speak for years,

but a few months ago, they met up,

and Crier says she apologized.

It was great to see him  after all of the craziness,

because, you know, we did  have something great together.

Sobriety not only helped him make peace,

but restored the thing that was  most important to him all along.

As soon as I quit drinking, all  my kids started showing up again.

While nothing can give back time lost,

it's never too late to  start doing the right thing.

I always call him when I need something.

He's the first person who will  answer the phone immediately,

and he'll drop everything to come help me.

I'm Adam. This is ScreenPuff.

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