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The TV Column: Charlie Sheen gets high Monday on the sound of his own voice
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That announcement came just hours after recordings of a Sheen interview with syndicated radio personality Alex Jones went viral. In the interview, Sheen repeatedly attacked the show's creator, executive producer Chuck Lorre, whom Sheen insisted on calling "Chaim Levine."
Among the nastier bits of the interview, Sheen told Jones: "Check it, Alex: I embarrassed [Lorre] in front of his children and the world by healing at a pace that his unevolved mind cannot process. Last I checked, Chaim, I spent close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. And the gratitude I get is [that] this charlatan chose not to do his job, which is to write."
Sheen's Monday interview on "GMA" was conducted at Sheen's home, where he'd undergone his lightning-fast rehab stint after CBS and Warner Bros. "temporarily" shut down production on the show.
Sheen having "completed" rehab, CBS and Warner Bros. were scheduled to resume "Men" production Monday - the day that, instead, ABC and NBC were clocking what are sure to be boffo ratings with their Charlie Sheen Explains It All interviews.
For his "GMA" and TMZ interviews, Sheen was surrounded by his two latest blond "goddesses" - a la Hugh Hefner - as well as the two young sons he shares with ex-wife Brooke Mueller.
On the "Today" show, Sheen announced that he's planning to return to "Two and a Half Men" next season because that's what he agreed to under terms of his contract, he's a man of his word, blah, blah, blah. He also says he'd agree to do a 10th season on the show, after that. But "at this point, because of psychological distress, it's $3 million an episode - take it or leave it," said Sheen, adding: "Look what they've put me through."
Sheen's current salary on the show is nearly $2 million per episode.
"I'm underpaid right now," Sheen added. "I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special."
During his various interviews, Sheen acknowledged that he'd used drugs in the past, saying that the last time he used drugs, he "probably took more than anybody could survive."
"I was banging seven-gram rocks and finishing them, because that's how I roll," he told "GMA." "I have one speed. I have one gear - go."
Sheen described himself as superhuman, citing a "different constitution," "different brain" and "different heart" than normal people have, allowing him to survive his drug binges.
"I got tiger blood, man," he said. "My brain . . . fires in a way that is - I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm."
