Charlie Sheen (left) and Chuck Lorre.Photo: Craig Barritt/Getty, Alberto E. Rodriguez/FilmMagic)
Two and a Half MencreatorChuck LorreandCharlie Sheenhave made amends 12 years after their public fallout ahead of their upcoming series,How to Be a Bookie.
Back in 2011, Sheen targeted Lorre in a series of rants where he called him a“clown,” “a stupid, stupid man” and hurled anti-semitic insults. At the time, the actor was struggling withhis drug and alcohol addiction, which led him to go offon bizarre rantsabout “winning” and using “tiger’s blood.”
Chuck Lorre and Charlie Sheen.Nick Ut/AP
Despite the broken bridges, when Lorre and hisHow to Be a Bookieco-creator Nick Bakay needed to cast “a real-life Hollywood star” to play a high roller, the writer immediately thought of Sheen.
“It should be Charlie,” he recalled considering the 58-year-old actor toVariety. “I remember Charlie was very much engaged in sports betting and he would tell me stories about it all the time. You know, when things were good.”
Though he felt apprehensive about their reunion, Lorre shared that the duo quickly picked up right where they left off.
“I was nervous, but almost as soon as we started talking, I remembered, we were friends once,” he explained. “And that friendship just suddenly seemed to be there again.”
Chuck Lorre and Charlie Sheen.Vince Bucci/Getty
Lorre continued, “I don’t want to be too mawkish about it, but it was healing. And he was also totally game to make fun of himself. When he came to the table read of that episode, I walked up, and we hugged. It was just great.”
The television writer noted how he “loved” working with Sheen on the comedy series.
“We did 170 episodes together before it all fell apart. And more often than not, we had a good time,” he said. “Assuming he’s in a good place, I’m in a good place.”
Charlie Sheen.Michael Buckner/Getty
“It feels awful. I can’t sit there and lie to you,” he said. “Some of it is very surreal. To this day, I am not sure how I created such chaos and wound up in that headspace. It’s as though there was some alien or demonic possession going on.”
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Two years later in February 2021, Sheen expressed his regret for the way he behaved amid his bitter public feud with Lorre.
“There was 55 different ways for me to handle that situation, and I chose number 56,” he toldYahoo! Entertainment. “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.”
Sheen added, “It was desperately juvenile.”
source: people.com
