Charlie Sheen's Hollywood career may have been harmed by the star's bizarre pronouncements in a string of interviews
Charlie Sheen's career trajectory took another lurch after the Hollywood star gave a string of bizarre interviews defending his past indulgence with drugs and porn stars, assailing his critics as "retarded" and vowing to sue his former employers for canceling his hit TV sitcom.
The star of the US network comedy Two And A Half Men took to the airwaves with a vengence on Monday, producing samples of his blood and urine for a drugs test ? which came up clean ? and telling NBC's Today show that CBS and Warner Brothers would have to beg him to return and increase his pay from $2m to $3m per episode because of "psychological distress".
"I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special. I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars, and people can't figure me out, they can't process me. I don't expect them to. You can't process me with a normal brain," Sheen told NBC's Jeff Rossen.
In a competing ABC News interview, Sheen said: "I am on a drug, it's called 'Charlie Sheen'. It's not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."
Sheen then stopped and mused: "Too much?"
Having boasted of his ability to consume crack cocaine, Sheen told ABC's Andrea Canning that he couldn't remember the last time he had used drugs ? although he suggested it had been "six weeks ago" ? and maintained he was now drug-free for the sake of his five children.
As if that wasn't enough, Sheen also granted an extended conversation to TMZ.com, which the celebrity website streamed as live video from Sheen's "home rehab centre" ? apparently the poolside of Sheen's Los Angeles home.
In the TMZ interview Sheen discoursed widely on a number of subjects, including his ability to cure himself from addiction, his views on parenthood, playing baseball and his efforts to house a group of porn stars nearby ? "Some plans just don't work out," Sheen said ? while surrounded by a group of his friends and admirers known as "Camp Charlie".
TMZ's Mike Walters asked Sheen if he had hit "rock bottom" ? and Sheen replied: "Rock bottom? That's a fishing term."
"I have a grandiose life. I embrace it." Sheen expounded. "Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way."
Discussing his battle against the makers of Two And A Half Men, Sheen said he wanted to return to acting but also warned: "I'm insulted. I am confused. But these resentments, they are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my sabre."
Shortly after the TMZ interview ended, Sheen's PR manager Stan Rosenfeld announced that he was resigning: "I worked with Charlie Sheen for a long time and I care about him very much, however, at this time, I'm unable to work effectively as his publicist and have respectfully resigned."
Sheen told ABC that he had never lost "a day that cost anybody any money" during filming of the sitcom, apart from missing rehearsals. "Practice is for amateurs," Sheen sneered.
He said he had received calls of support from fellow celebrities, including Mel Gibson. "Occasionally, you know, a giant marquee name comes through on your caller ID. And it's like, winning," Sheen said.
CBS and producers Warner Brothers finally lost patience with Sheen last week, with CBS suspending the comedy midway through its ninth series, after Sheen launched a series of public attacks on the show's creator Chuck Lorre and appears to have refused further formal rehabilitation treatment. Production of the sitcom had been delayed twice in the past two years to allow Sheen to undergo treatment.
Before the decision to cancel the series, Sheen had been America's most highly-paid TV actor and Two And A Half Men was the top-rated sitcom in the country, attracting an audience of around 15 million viewers a week for the network ? and many more through re-runs, syndication and DVD sales.
"They picked a fight with a warlock," Sheen said of his promised legal battle against CBS, which he vowed to undertake "with zeal and focus, violent hatred ... You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing."
Asked by TMZ for a final thought, Sheen replied: "I love and respect all my beautiful fans. Whatever part I had in this, I sincerely apologise for. Whatever I can fix, I guarantee, I will."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/mar/01/charlie-sheen-interview-today-tmz
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