Charlie Sheen Shaves His Head, Friend Says It’s Not ‘a Britney’

Charlie Sheen is currently in rehab, for a presumed alcohol addiction, which culminated with his arrest later last year, after he lashed out and assaulted his wife. The actor has completed his contract for one more season of the hit series “Two and a Half Men,” and he chose to celebrate it by getting a buzz cut, one of his closest friends says for People magazine.

Towards the end of last week, word got out in the media that Sheen had slipped out of the rehab facility he’s seeking in-patient treatment and went to a barber’s to shave his head. Because Britney Spears did something similar a few years back, when she reached a low in her personal life and, unfortunately, it turned out to play out in the media as one of the most spectacular celebrity breakdowns, some began asking whether Sheen wasn’t on the verge of one as well. Far from it, actually, says Mark Burg, an executive producer on the “Two and a Half Men” and longtime friend.

According to him, Charlie is well and he simply chose to cut his hair because he’d no longer be working on the series, therefore he saw no need to sticking to the same ‘do he had for the past seven years or so. Whether he has longer or shorter hair is no indication of his state of mind – nor of his addiction getting the best of him, Burg explains for the aforementioned magazine. Plus, it looks good: see photos here.

“For seven years [doing Two and a Half Men,] Charlie had to have the same haircut. Now that he’s completed his contract, he decided to get a haircut and he used a No. 2 buzzer. No big deal. He likes it and likes that it’s easier to take care of. It looks good!” Burg says. As such, talk that Sheen is this close to having a breakdown is nothing but pure waste of time because it couldn’t be farther from the truth.

A few days ago, Sheen issued a statement to rubbish reports that he’d be leaving “Two and a Half Men” because he wanted more money and the network couldn’t agree to that. In it, he said he was ready to say goodbye to the show if the network decided not to renew his contract, but insisted no decision had been made yet.