>>>
now to the latest trouble surrounding
charlie sheen
. thursday night
cbs
and
warner brothers
stopped production on "two and a half men" and on friday the troubled actor took to the airways again with another shocking rant filled with rage.
>> reporter:
for
charlie sheen
, the rants just keep on coming.
>>
they picked a fight with the wrong guy. defeat is not an option and they know it.
>> reporter:
a day after lashing out, he returned to the airways this time speaking to pat o'brien.
>>
they said change your life and i did in like an hour. and, you know, i guess they might be sort of missing the old guy that was just showing up sort of quietly and hitting his marks.
>> reporter:
and sheen didn't waste any time. again, attacking his bosses, including
chuck lorre
, the creator of "two and a half men."
>>
they know what they did was wrong. they're in absolute breach. i got the first amendment behind me and an army marching.
>> reporter:
that followed thursday's radio outburst when sheen slammed lorre and raised eyebrows by calling him by his
hebrew name
.
>>
last time i checked, i've spent at least close to the last decade magically converting your
tin cans
in to
pure gold
. and the gratitude i get is he chose not do his job, which is as to write.
>> reporter:
cbs
responded quickly. in a same the network said based on the totality of
charlie sheen
's statements, conduct and condition,
cbs
and
warner brothers television
have skied to discontinue production of "two and a half men" for the remainder of the season. with production on hold, hundreds of people will be out of work. on friday, sheen had a message for them.
>>
be patient, get focused. we're at war and there are ways to deal with these clowns and take all their money.
>> reporter:
this are reports this morning that the actor who was in the bahamas with a porn star and model has returned to hollywood and insisted that his rehab worked and this he's clean and sober.
>>
if you can find a drug that will get me higher than i him i hate to say on life, but just
living in the moment
, finally enjoying this life, then present that drug. i don't think it exists.
>>
lola is a freelance entertainment reporter and
pop culture
expert and brad is an addiction interventionist who has worked with celebrities and the author of how to help the one you love. good morning to you both. thanks for being with us. brad, i want to start with you.
charlie sheen
has been telling anyone who will listen i'm okay, i'm ready to work, i want to go back to work. and then he goes on the airways with this rant. what do you make of all this?
>>
what's being televised is a
high speed chase
of somebody's destruction. we're seeing the rants of a mad man. it if we start to believe that it's anything his than drug related, i think we're all telling ourselves a story. families and friends, we all know somebody who struggled with drugs or alcohol and we've all wonder what had can we do to help them and i bet that that's what's happening
behind the scenes
, as well. they've certainly done something, but for the families and friends, too, they're saying what in the world can we do now to help him not die. that's my fear for him is that he dies.
>>
so when he says i'm clean and sober, you don't have to worry about me, you think otherwise.
>>
i would give him a
drug test
. it's like the guy that comes up from the tornado skrel lacellar, everybody has seen massive destruction sxecht him and he looks away and says, hey, what a great day. and that's the rublg with addiction is the disconnect between what's really happening and what they think is happening is huge. i've been in recovery for a long time. i know what it's like to have cocaine induced psychosis, to be crazy and anding and have people around me not know wlag do. but
family and friends
can step in and help.
>>
i left the show a month ago go for what he calls a self imposed at home rehab stint. does something like this work?
>>
there's been lots of controversy over does that work or doesn't it. my own experience with folks who are going into rehab and looking at this as an alternative is it can be helpful. he's a celebrity. there is the possibility that when a celebrity goes in to rehab that those private secret moments that they'll share in public can be sold or shared in the tabloids. so i didn't think that in and of itself was a terrible decision. i think the decision clearly that he hasn't of -- -he's not moved in to recover city the problem. quonk the choice to consider at home rehab is the terrible thing, but the results speak for themselves. he's not doing well.
>>
lola, how big a deal is to shut down production?
>>
the show generates more than $100 million in revenue. so they don't want to
walk away
from something like this. it generates about
10 million
viewers. and that's just the reruns. p so the numbers are huge here and
charlie sheen
obviously is someone that they had previously enjoyed working with in the past, but the drugs got to him and this is a really volatile relationship now. and i don't know if it can be fixed actually.
>>
that's the relationship with the studios. what about his relationship with the production crew and with the actors and actresses on the show. does he get along with them?
>>
everyone says that he's loved on the set, that he shows up on time, that is he professional, but clearly what he does in his off time is self-destructive and not good for the show and 300 people now are out of work because of
charlie sheen
's antics off the set. he's one of those people i believe who needs to work. he gets in to trouble when he's on hiatus. the incident at the plaza happened over the christmas holidays when he allegedly held a knife to his ex-wife's neck happened last christmas. so when he has too much time on his hands, he gets himself into trouble. he's his own worst enemy.
>>
for years there were reports that he's been doing the drugs and alcohol and partying and yet he's shown up to work on time and he's been okay when it comes to actually working. so what do you do in a situation like this then?
>>
that's what
cbs
said initially, that's why they were allowing him to work because they couldn't reprimand him. what do you do when he shows up on time and hits their mark. but now it's gone too far. s they can't ignore it anymore.
>>
sheen's ex-wife moved back it this with him. they come have kids together. they can't ignore it anymore.
>>
sheen's ex-wife moved back it this with him. they come have kids together.they can't ignore it anymore.
>>
sheen's ex-wife moved back it this with him. they come have kids together have kids t ogether. e also was in rehab. how much of this is good at any level in.
>>
when i have an intervention, i try to get all the voice has matter and oftentimes the family will not want to include another person who is also difficulted but that's often the first person they want to call. they've built a life together and they've struggled together.
charlie sheen
said that we are at war here and i think that is the primary notion that we can all take away. this guy is at war and it's with an addiction. and i hope doesn't kill him.
>>
we'll leave it at that. thank you so much. up
