Although Jon Cryer recently appeared in Charlie Sheen‘s documentary, the former onscreen brothers appear to have lost touch off-screen.
Discussing his new Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, the Golden Globe winner recently revealed “the only person I didn’t call personally to participate in the doc” was his Two and a Half Men co-star.
“And the only reason I didn’t call him was because I didn’t have the right number for him, so the director [Andrew Renzi] reached out to him,” he told People. “But when I saw everything that Jon spoke about, so honestly and very compassionately, I wrote to him and I said, ‘Hey, thank you for your contributions, and I’m sorry we didn’t connect personally. I hope to see you around the campus.'”
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Sheen added, “I’m thinking I wrote to the wrong number. It’s not like Jon did not respond. He’s super responsible like that. So if you’re reading this, Jon, DM me your new number!”
In Two and a Half Men, hedonistic jingle writer Charlie Harper’s (Sheen) life is thrown for a loop when his recently divorced brother Alan (Cryer) moves into the bachelor’s beachfront house with his son Jake (Angus T. Jones). Following Charlie’s death on the show, billionaire Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher) bought the house and filled out the trio.
Amid his addiction battle, Sheen was fired from the show in 2011 after taking public swipes at CBS, Warner Bros. and series co-creator Chuck Lorre. Season 8 was cut short amid the ordeal, and Kutcher replaced Sheen for the remainder of the series.
Following Cryer’s appearance in the doc, in which he theorized about the root of Sheen’s addiction struggles were fueled by a low sense of self-confidence, Sheen praised his “really insightful” and “compassionate” words, telling People, “It was really cool to hear from his perspective. He was in the line of fire with all that stupid s— going on, and it was affecting him and his family and his career and all that. I can’t debate anything that he said.”
“He nailed that, and I’m so glad he opened that door, because it gave me a chance to really start thinking about that,” he explained. “He said, ‘He’s a guy that doesn’t believe he deserves the things he has, or that it was he earned,’ and I was like, ‘Whoa.'”
Sheen added, “Suddenly, I felt like I was on a couch in Jon’s therapy office, and he was dead on. That’s something that I’ve felt my whole life, because I had no formal training. I had no formal education, I didn’t even finish high school. And suddenly I’m working and traveling, I’m a star and all this stuff. It just happened. There was no plan. And there was always the voice of doubt there, telling me it’s only a matter of time before this all goes away, so to enjoy this as heartily as you can.
