Charlie Sheen isn’t going away quietly after Warner Bros. Television fired the actor from “Two and a Half Men.”
After learning the news on Monday, the actor engaged in some headline-making behavior; including brandishing a machete on the rooftop of the LiveNation building in downtown Los Angeles, while drinking a red liquid he called “tiger blood.” But even before that, he was recording a new Ustream rant making headlines today.
Posted on his “Sheen’s Korner” Ustream account, the actor recorded himself speaking on the phone to a friend, praising his own behavior of late and possibly making a sly dig at his former show.
“The people are doing what they should be doing, which is watching me… because we have all the answers, we have all the gold, we have all the solutions, Bob,” he said to his friend who was on speakerphone at the time. “And keep in mind, like any time I roll something out, my plan is the best one in the room and people are starting to wake up and realize that… Walk into my plan and you’re gonna win, win, win!”
“OK, winner, winner.com,” his friend on the speakerphone replied.
“Winner.com, winner, winner chicken dinner,” Sheen said, possibly quoting one of Jon Cryer’s lines from his last episode of “Two and a Half Men,” this season, a catchphrase the character Alan was trying to adopt.
“I don’t think so,” Sheen added, perhaps slamming the “…Men” line. “Winner, winner, Sheen dinner!”
Beyond Sheen’s Ustream rant on Monday, the actor gave his first reaction to his firing news to Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush exclusively, just moments after Warner Bros. Television announced the news. And in the phone call, the actor claimed responsibility for the show getting off the ground initially.
“It’s silly because it was developed based on like everything that I had brought to the table,” Sheen told Bush. “I can show you the e-mail at some point. It’s a ‘Charlie Sheen contingent’ show not a ‘Chuck-what’s-his-cheese contingent’ show… This is all about posturing… It’s all about these guys not wanting to admit that they’re wrong, not wanting to admit that I healed in an hour and they couldn’t deal with it.”
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Sheen suggested he was disappointed by the way things turned out based on his contributions to “…Men.”
“I walked in and delivered the Lotto and this is the thanks I get?” he said. “If it asked to be this way, then so be it, but I think they made a few mistakes leading up to this moment, then this is the O.J. verdict of their biggest mistake.”
Sheen plans to sue Warner Bros. TV, CBS and “… Men” Executive Producer Chuck Lorre, but according to a letter to the actor’s lawyer, posted on TMZ, the studio noted that Sheen’s contract contains a clause that allows for termination if he commits an offense of “moral turpitude.”
“The moral turpitude clause in his contract specified that if there were any felony issues, any sort of felony issues, that could abrogate the contract,” trial attorney Rebecca Rose Woodland explained to Access Hollywood.
Per the contract, Warner Bros. Television determines what behavior is over the line.
“They are claiming the felony they’re relying on for this aspect of the dismissal is giving drugs to other people,” Woodland said.
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