14 DAY TRIAL // Having closed the “Two and a Half Men” chapter, Charlie Sheen is getting ready to get back in the game. To promote his upcoming show, he sat down for an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today and, among other things, he also talked about last year's meltdown and whether he thought he could survive his addictions.
He didn't, he says: just like no one else did either.
You can see the interview here.
Because it's not two weeks since Sheen was photographed looking slightly tipsy at a Guns 'N' Roses concert, Lauer asks Sheen whether drinking is such a good idea considering that he has serious drug issues and, of course, experts recommend addicts steer clear of all kinds of temptations.
Obviously, Charlie doesn't believe he's doing anything wrong.
He insists he knows he has a problem and is working daily to keep in under control but, at the same time, he also enjoys a drink every now and then.
Recalling last year and the meltdown that held headlines for months in a row, the actor says he can't blame anyone for thinking he wouldn't make it for another year.
At one point, he jokes, not even he thought he could.
“[The meltdown] was a little cringeable,” Sheen says, apologizing to the public for taking them with him on his crazy ride.
“I didn't recognize parts of who that guy was,” he adds.
Even so, the thought of making a documentary of his meltdown did cross his mind, Charlie reveals.
“I was going to do a documentary with all the footage I shot during the tour and the whole buildup, during the meltdown. It could be a nice case study one day. In looking at a lot of the stuff, I'm like ew, whoa,” he tells Lauer.
“The verbage and him looking like a real, insane wordsmith was fine. But it was a trip,” the actor explains, adding that the whole thing was like an out of body experience.
As for why he did the things he did, Sheen can't offer any other explanation than that he was a cannon on the loose, a man who suddenly had everything taken away from him.
“I guess the plan was to reintroduce myself to America and to the media and say, 'Sorry about that, but here's what's happening now',” he says.
Sheen's new show, “Anger Management,” will premiere this summer. It's loosely inspired by the film of the same name with Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler.