Charlie Sheen's Interview Regrets: Mocking Lorre, Demanding Raise

Even a guy who is "delivering the goods at every frickin' turn" can make a mistake once in a while. Even a guy as addicted to winning, with tiger blood running through his veins can take a tiny misstep here and there. Really, it's true!

Charlie Sheen finished his exhausting Monday media blitz with a semi-sedate interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, who got Sheen to talk about the past few weeks, his comments to the press and what, if anything, he regretted.

Turns out there are a couple things he wishes he could take back.

First, the controversy stoked by his comments about "Two and a Half Men" creator Chuck Lorre, whom Sheen called by his real last name and then a hebrew version of his first name: Chaim Levine. While it was derived from a recent Lorre vanity card, many saw the emphasis as anti-semitic. Sheen now regrets bringing it up.

"Well, yes, I do, I regret it in a way that I didn't even think about it," Sheen told Morgan. "I should have thought about it. Stupid, stupid move.

"I thought the rules had been established," he continued. "He calls me Carlos Estevez a lot, which is my real name, and then I saw the other name on his vanity card, and I said it, and the world just started burning down around me."

Another big regret? The bizarre demand for a raise, to $3 million an episode, to do another season of "Two and a Half Men".

"No, that was stupid," Sheen said. "I was joking about being underpaid but to come back, um, Season 10, but that's all negotiable; you can't talk about this stuff on television."

Perhaps he expressed the regret as a way of bridging a gap with his fellow castmates, who he said have not reached out to him once during this whole burst of media madness.

"I have not because I don't feel like there's any real support there. No one has issued a statement. I made a phone call. I get a couple angry texts, whatever. Ignore that. I am out here trying to do this for all of us guys. I'm not trying to embarrass you or ruin your jobs or ruin the show. It would be nice if there was some measure of support though -- from anybody. Anybody. That's alright. Every great movement begins with one man and I guess that's me."

Interestingly, Sheen's mea culpas came AFTER he lost his longtime publicist, Stan Rosenfield, who quit on Monday.

Comments

[Tolms]

04:45 PM on 03/03/2011

"Every great movement begins with one man and I guess that's me." - Charlie Sheen

[Ramon Moreno]

01:49 AM on 03/02/2011

Even crazy people know not to go up against the jews

[jwb2013]

12:21 AM on 03/02/2011

is it just me, or does this picture of him look like mel gibson?

[WAKE UP WORLD]

11:12 PM on 03/01/2011

ABC news is really sad, i've actually lost a little respect for the network tonight. WHAT is so big about charlie Sheen? Who cares what PORN STARS that used to date him think. They where paid for laying down not their thoughts...
What is going on in this country.
THE ONLY PERSON CAHRLIE is hurting if anyone is himself.
Live and let live.....

[Peerless Pillar of Power]

10:39 PM on 03/01/2011

Charlie undervalues the stabilizing effect of those in society whose job it is to maintain the framework in which he earned his money. They may frustrate him, but they have a stabilizing effect on his personality.

Charlie's drug indulgence with porn tarts was commendable, up to a point. It became troublesome for his TV character when it began to overshadow his real life.

But showing up for work, working with John Cryer and the kid who plays his nephew - this is his TV family. There was some consistency between Sheen's on-air persona and in real life as well.

But he can't complain a whole lot about Chuck Lorre when he's becoming a bigger spectacle off the set than on it. He should count his many blessings and give up the idea of starting a "movement".

The greatest man is the one who is most happy. Charlie is loving life, but he needs his professional colleagues to impede him. He's probably gonna have to give a 'mea culpa' and cry for them a little to assuage their egos. He needs them.

[Ariel Bonzai]

06:52 AM on 03/04/2011

show biz is his life

[lucerot]

09:36 PM on 03/01/2011

It's like watching someone expl0de before our eyes.

[Mutande]

08:25 PM on 03/01/2011

Bipolar. Needs help. Sadly, those who are bipolar often are either too depressed to get help or too manic to feel they need it. The reason he sounds so irrational, is because he is. The reason he behaves abnormally, is because most of the time he's abnormal. Clearly, nobody in his right mind would behave as he does. He may not accept the help he needs. It's sad for him and everybody around him.

[mamala4]

07:40 PM on 03/01/2011

There is no way Sheen is not either on something or in the midst of a breakdown....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/quiz/2011/mar/01/muammar-gaddafi-charlie-sheen-quiz
9/11 never happened? Thanks Charlie.

[Zabelisa]

06:40 PM on 03/01/2011

Everyone should shut up and quit being so hypocritical. Its so good to judge another while they're down... Nothing a prayer can't fix!! Hahaha right how ridiculous. And Dr. Drew just as bad, he likes to promote his crap. Charlie is way more sane than many of those criticizing, he needs to helps himself, to get out of this predicament, but this is definitely not the way to do it. Tearing him apart publicly and all that condescending advice from people who have never even been there. I think all Charlie needs is a little pilgrimage to clean and strengthen his soul (and I am in no way talking about religion here). He's obviously fed up with being taken advantage of, who wouldn't be?

[Blue One]

06:20 PM on 03/01/2011

Clearly this guy is in deep trouble. He has the world by the short hairs. . . . . a great job, tons of money, reasonably good health, a good family. . . . . . things that not everyone has. He seems to be the most ungrateful person on the planet. He makes 2 million dollars a week and that isn't enough for him. Now he wants 3 million.

It's a shame. Charlie Sheen is totally out of control. I think it is the drugs or his mental instability talking for him. He needs to shut the heck up before he finds himself on the unemployment line. NO ONE IS IRREPLACEABLE. Not even Charlie Sheen. If he gets the help he obviously needs and gets himself under control, maybe he can salvage his career. But if he continues on his current path, he will probably go down in smoke and be just another hollywood casualty.

[mamala4]

07:40 PM on 03/01/2011

#1 f and f....

[mmgbizgirl]

06:11 PM on 03/01/2011

b.s.

[srivers]

04:01 PM on 03/01/2011

"Regrets? I've had many."

[vdunn33]

06:34 PM on 03/01/2011

and gonna have a few more i'm sure....

[Ariel Bonzai]

06:53 AM on 03/04/2011

if there aren't you aren't there living life like you should--we learn from error

[jed Houston]

03:22 PM on 03/01/2011

Well I finally realized that there actually is something wrong with him that's not drugs or alcohol, I guess that he does have the bipolar thing working, he's clearly got some mania going on in these interviews.

[Dye]

03:18 PM on 03/01/2011

Charlie needs a vacation......I hear Libya is nice this time of year !

[RIPUSA]

03:11 PM on 03/01/2011

I think Charlie is way cool, but he needs help. He is not dealing well with the pressure of stardom any longer, he doesn't need to be kicked around, he needs a supportive hand.

[sobaytransplant]

04:22 PM on 03/01/2011

What Charlie needs is a CLUE. He has done this to himself and there is no one else to blame. If he's a big enough boy to make that kind of money for each episode, then he should also be big enough not to need anyone to hold his hand, either. He's not THAT big a star, for heaven's sakes. Many people have been much bigger stars than he is and were able to handle it.

I have NO IDEA how he got past the drug test to make it look like he isn't under any chemical influence when he clearly IS, judging by the way he looks and behaves lately. But if it isn't drugs, then he has a SERIOUS mental problem. Either way, television is a BUSINESS and he is jeopardizing the operations of that business, as well as the careers of the other actors. He certainly wouldn’t be the first person to get canned from a show for allowing his personal problems to affect his ability to do his job. Talk to Mackenzie Phillips about it.

[Ariel Bonzai]

06:56 AM on 03/04/2011

no body is that big of a star unless we make them one.
could be good time charlie is toppling his own iconic status