14 DAY TRIAL // Following weeks of doing and saying whatever crossed his mind, Charlie Sheen is paying the price for forgoing all diplomacy and tact: Warner Bros. has officially fired the actor from the hit sitcom “Two and a Half Men.”
Though he stated he was “unemployed” until now, technically, Sheen was still with Warners and CBS, even though the current season of the aforementioned show had been put on hold.
However, after he decided to take legal action against the network unless it agreed to pay him for the remaining episodes of the season even if they were never shot, Warner Bros. has decided to fire him altogether.
“After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on ‘Two and a Half Men,’ effective immediately,” a statement to TMZ reads.
As several US media outlets have already pointed out, this doesn’t mean that “Two and a Half Men” is terminated, but Sheen definitely is.
In other words, the show could actually return sometime in the future, albeit with another leading man. This is one of the options that CBS is now considering, but it’s a rather tricky one because of Sheen’s large and loyal fanbase.
Sheen, as far as he’s concerned, is not taking this lying down either: reports suggest that he’s talking to his legal representatives to sue CBS and Warner Bros. for breach of contract on the grounds that, as long as he’s ready to shoot the rest of the season, them not doing it and not paying him for it, is in violation of the contract.
In response, Warner Bros. has fired off an 11-page letter to Sheen’s camp, explaining in detail the reasons he’s been let go: among them is also the fact that he’s acting like a lunatic and is still doing heavy drugs.
“Your client has been engaged in dangerously self-destructive conduct and appears to be very ill,” the letter says. It also mentions a special clause in the contract in which it can be terminated in case of “a felony offense involving moral turpitude.”
“There is ample evidence supporting Warner Bros. reasonable good faith opinion that Mr. Sheen has committed felony offenses involving moral turpitude (including but not limited to furnishing of cocaine to others as part of the self-destructive lifestyle he has described publicly) that have ‘interfere[d] with his ability to fully and completely render all material services required’ under the agreement,” the letter states.