Around this time last year, Charlie Sheen was just starting to go off the deep end. It was in January of 2011 that Charlie went on his first well-publicized adventure with cocaine and booze and hookers and ambulance rides, and it was in January that Two and a Half Men first went on hiatus so Charlie could go to rehab. It doesn’t seem like that long ago, does it? Oh yeah, that’s because the crazy went on for months and months, huh?
But good news, everybody! The crazy train has stopped, and a lucid, somewhat charming Charlie Sheen stepped off of it! Yep, despite what you think after checking out the photo above (sweet robe, Charlie), this man is 100% back on track:
“I’m not crazy any more. That was an episode,” Sheen says, laughing, as he spoke with reporters at Sunday night’s Fox Network Television Critics Association party in Pasadena, Calif.
“I think I’m a different person than I was yesterday. Everything is a lot more mellow and focused and much more rooted in reality.”
Of late, Sheen says instead of sounding off on Twitter, “I’ve been spending a lot of time with the kids, a lot of time with the family and I’m getting back into work mode,” adding that he is goddess-free these days. “I’m a single guy hanging out with my children.”
Asked if he has been in contact with his former Two and a Half Men costar Jon Cryer, or producer Chuck Lorre, Sheen says, “Jon and I text. Chuck, no, but at some point we are going to have to get some closure there.”
In a different interview, Charlie took some time to explain exactly what kicked off his crazy behavior last year:
It was a lot about what had been going on for all those years on the (“Two and a Half Men”) set and it was also about the pressure cooking of 30 years in the business and finally wanting to say all the things that I didn’t. And I said them all at once and it created a tsunami of bizarre proportions. But no, the reason that I pushed it is that I knew I was right. I knew I was absolutely right in my stand.
Sounds good, Charlie! It’s good to know that 2011 was just a little episode! See you in 2013 when you have your next one, all right?
My Momma always told me, crazy is as crazy does.