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Charlie Sheen Steps Up His War on CBS in Epic 'Piers Morgan Tonight' Interview (VIDEO)
by Jason Hughes, posted Mar 1st 2011 8:15AM
Charlie Sheen has apparently decided to fill the free time afforded him by his sobriety and the abrupt end of 'Two and a Half Men''s season by going on every television show he can find to talk about it.His latest entry was 'Piers Morgan Tonight' (weeknights, 9PM ET on CNN), where he toned down the rhetoric of earlier interviews and spoke somewhat eloquently about the situation he finds himself in.
As Sheen described it, he was never fully comfortable on the show. "I never cost the production or the show or the studio or the network any money, as far as missing a show or missing a day that was a money day," he said. The bottom line, as far as Sheen is concerned, is that what he did in his personal life never impacted the show.
"And [yet] every Friday night it turned into the big executive [meetings] in the corner. Hush-hush dialogue -- whisper dialogue -- about my condition. It was a really hard situation to work in."
Pulling back on his earlier demands that his salary be doubled, Sheen is now focusing on the crew. He feels that CBS head honcho Les Moonves lied to him about the crew, promising that they would be taken care of. Just today it was announced they would be paid for four of the eight episodes that have been canceled.
"That's OK, that's a start," Sheen said. "I'm not stopping until they give them eight."
He did admit that he would apologize to Moonves for not reining in his personal behavior after promising to do so if given the chance. But very little time in the interview was spent on self-reflection and remorse. Sheen was very much on the offensive.
He felt like the network's interest in his personal life was an intrusion. A life, as he explained it, that was the genesis of the show.
"I think that they in some way think that they have some magic literary influence over me," he said of the production team, stating they believe his behavior off-set is a result of the way they wrote his character in the show. "No, morons. The reason the show was created was because of the lifestyle I had, and you guys based it on that."
While there's been a lot of speculation about what CBS might do now with the show, one rumor Sheen attacked outright. "Then I start hearing stories about they're going to hire John Stamos," he said. "You guys do that, you deserve everything that happens later."
This response was because Stamos made some comments about Sheen on Howard Stern's radio show and according to Sheen, "I don't forget anything."
Morgan was supportive of Sheen's lifestyle, so long as he didn't do anything illegal. And while he's been outlandish in the past few days with all these public appearances, he did manage to come across as articulate and intelligent here.
Whether you agree with what he was saying may be a different matter entirely. Nor has there been consistency in the Charlie Sheens we've seen through his media blitz -- a tour that's already cost him his publicist as well as his show.
Do you think he represented himself well or is it time to stop making all these appearances? And, what's next for Sheen, CBS and 'Two and a Half Men'?
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