Ten years after his infamous collapse, Charlie Sheen wishes he would have done things differently.
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‘People have [said to] me, ‘Hey, man, it was so cool, it was so nice to watch. It was so cool to be a part of and support and all the energy, and you know, we put it to the man, ” he told Yahoo! Entertainment said. “My thought behind it is, ‘Oh, yes, wonderful. I’m so glad I swapped early retirement for a … hashtag. ”
In 2011, Charlie was the highest paid actor on TV for his role in ‘Two and a Half Men’. But things soon got out of hand and Charlie said he ‘wins’ and has ‘tiger blood’ in a series of weird interviews.
‘There’s a moment when [former CBS CEO] Les Moonves and his leading lawyer, Bruce, were at my house and they said, ‘OK, the Warner plane is being fired up on the runway. He walks up in an hour and goes to rehab, right? “My first thought was like really … there was a comedy value to what my first thought was,” he said. At that moment, when I said, ‘Oh, damn, I’m finally getting the Warner jet.’ That’s all I heard. But if I could go back in that time, I would have climbed on the jet. And it was that giant left turn at that moment that led to, you know, a very unfortunate series of public and insane events. ‘
He continued: “There were 55 different ways I could handle the situation, and I chose number 56.”
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With the benefit of the time, Charlie said he grew out of the crash, but only after taking ‘absolute ownership of my role in it all’. His behavior, he adds, “was desperately youthful.”
“I think it was drugs or the residual effects of drugs,” he continued. “And it was also an ocean of tension and a volcano of contempt. It was all self-generated, you know. All I had to do was take a step back and say, ‘OK, let’s go. let’s make a list. Let’s list, like, everything that’s fun in my life right now, that’s going on now. Let’s make a list of what’s not cool. ‘Do you know what I’m saying? And the “Cool list was really full. The not cool list was like two things that could easily be turned down.”
Yet Charlie wishes more people would see his behavior at the time as a cry for help.
“They showed up in masses with banners and songs, all kinds of fanfare and celebration of, you know, what I think was a very public display of a mental health moment,” he said. “I had four kids and went through two divorces in and around trying to navigate the landscape to be on the most popular show in the famous universe, so that was a lot. And sometimes you choose a target, you need a scapegoat, “You need someone to put it all on. You know? It can ‘t be me, it’s him or them or those people. And it’s just not the best trip.”