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US sitcom canned after Charlie Sheen meltdown
Plug pulled on Two and a Half Men after troubled star rants on radio
Actor Charlie Sheen, in and out of rehab (over booze and cocaine) and in an out of court (over threatening his wife Brooke with a knife), appears to have gone past the point of no return.
Filming of Two and a Half Men, the American sitcom he's paid $2m an episode to star in, has been cancelled forthwith by CBS and Warner Bros after Sheen phoned in to a radio station and started slagging off the show's creator Chuck Lorre, and ranting against Alcoholics Anonymous among other targets.
His tirade was a wild one, even by Sheen standards.
"Look what I'm dealing with, man," he told the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. "I'm dealing with fools and trolls... I'm dealing with soft targets, and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee... they lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives, and then they look at me and say, 'I can't process it.' Well, no, and you never will! Stop trying! Just sit back and enjoy the show."
In the midst of a ramble that covered trolls, tattoos and Vatican assassins, he returned to the subject of drugs and alcohol abuse. "I have a disease? Bullshit! I cured it... with my mind."
For the makers of Two and a Half Men, enough was enough. The decision to halt production was based on the "totality of Charlie Sheen's statements, conduct and condition", according to a joint statement from Warner Bros Television studio and the CBS network.
According to some reports, 45-year-old Sheen greeted the news by hopping on a plane to the Bahamas accompanied by two porn movie stars.
This could scupper his hopes of persuading both his ex-wives - Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller - to move into his neighbourhood in Los Angeles so that his children by both marriages can be closer to him and each other. ·
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I think he is just not being honest about how he REALLY feels about how the rest of us people, us ugly people, get to enjoy life. I for one found comfort in telling the politicians in no uncertain terms that I think they are lying thieving money grubbing power mungers. Any bosses I have had know that I think they need me just as much as I need them and I will not bend over. I have done my rants sober and then I have a smoke and a drink. Moderation. Charlie is hurt by the way society treats us ugly people and he does not know how to express his feelings. He reminds me of me when I bitch at the wrong people at the wrong time. Practice Charlie and you shall over come. As an ugly person I have been overwhelmed by pretty women(not all of them like you good looking types)and said and done stupid things in my life and the only, only answer lies within yourself. Good luck Charlie. Us people who perceive ourselves as ugly have overcome; you shall overcome.
Good God! His poor children and his poor parents! If anyone out there dare not think that alcohol and drug addiction are a form of insanity, consider Mr. Sheen's pronouncements and behavior and think again!