10 Years Of Winning? Watch As Charlie Sheen's Hollywood Career Exploded On Radar — The No-Holds Barred Interview
March 16 2021, Updated 6:00 a.m. ET
“There was 55 different ways for me to handle that situation, and I chose number 56.”
That’s how Charlie Sheen, today to Yahoo, describes how almost exactly a decade ago he spontaneously combusted on the pages of Breaking Celebrity News with a stunning one-on-one interview that took aim at everyone from his father Martin, to Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre, and former CBS boss Les Moonves.
Recounted Sheen: “People have [said to] me, 'Hey, man, that was so cool, that was so fun to watch. That was so cool to be a part of and support and all that energy and, you know, we stuck it to the man.’
"My thought behind that is, ‘Oh, yeah, great. I’m so glad that I traded early retirement for a f*cking hashtag."
Hashtag of not, the Tinseltown train-wreck that is Sheen, 55, unloaded and took aim at his screen legend father who compared addiction to cancer.
“Jeez, dad… shut it!” Sheen, then 45, said when asked about his reaction to Martin’s recent interview in which he compared Sheen’s addiction to cancer.
Sheen waving around a machete in 2011.
“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 bristled about his father’s comments: “Sounds poetic but it's rooted in bollocks.”
Sheen and his ‘Tiger Blood’ also screeched:
- There would be another season of Two and a Half Men.
- He stated unequivocally that he was not a drug addict.
- He attacked CBS and Warner Bros. for shutting down his show, citing his conduct and condition: “My conduct is b*tchin', my condition is perfect so… I don't know what they're talking about.”
- He reaffirmed that he has a show that may land on HBO, saying: “There's a couple of companies who want it badly; it's in a bidding war and of course they don't want to do anything that's going to undercut their power.”
- He insisted he was still a bankable star and said he has been deluged with offers: “The five films I've been offered in the last like 8 minutes. I could entertain the 14 book deals I've got sitting on the table. I'm not going to be sitting around.”
Sheen with his costars from "Two And A Half Men", Angus T. Jones and Jon Cryer, 35th annual People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles on January 7, 2009
Of course, the only thing he got right from the aforementioned list was that there ultimately would be more Two and a Half Men — but this time it starred Ashton Kutcher, not Sheen.
The star invited Breaking Celebrity News into his Los Angeles mansion for his first interview and accepted our challenge to prove to the world that he was not using illicit or prescription substances, taking several different types of drug tests. He passed.