“You can’t process me with a normal brain…”
Charlie Sheen blows a kiss as he arrives at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colo., on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, for a hearing in his domestic abuse case. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski
↑ 17th May 2010 | “I’m looking forward to returning to my CBS home”
Sheen agrees a new two-year deal reportedly worth $2m an episode with Warner Bros to continue to star in sitcom ‘Two and a Half Men’.
↓ 26th Oct 2010 | “Intoxicated, irrational’ and ‘emotionally disturbed” – Police source.
Police remove Sheen from his suite at a New York hotel after he is reportedly found drunk, naked and angry because
he had lost his mobile phone and wallet. Reports claim police found a naked adult film star locked in a closet.
↓ 1st Nov 2010 | “Irreconcilable differences” – Court papers.
Sheen files for divorce from his third wife, Brooke Mueller. Documents state Christmas 2009 as the date the couple separated.
↓ 27th Jan 2011 | “He was having severe abdominal pains” – Stan Rosenfield, Sheen’s publicist.
Sheen is taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center by paramedics following a reported 36-hour party at his home.
↑ 28th Jan 2011 | “Charlie has put together a team that he trusts to help get him sober once and for all” – Mark Burg, Sheen’s manager.
Sheen begins a substance rehabilitation programme in his home.
↑ 28th Jan 2011 | “We are profoundly concerned and support his decision” – Studio statement.
‘Two and a Half Men’ executive producer Chuck Lorre releases a statement that the show will go on hiatus as Sheen undergoes rehab.
↓ 24th Feb 2011 | “You’re dealing with a Vatican assassin. Sorry. I’m a high priest Vatican assassin warlock”
Sheen gives a radio interview to Alex Jones during which he claims to hate Lorre, says that he turned Levine’s “tin cans into pure gold”, that he has “poetry” in his finger tips, that he is an F-18 plane “most of the time” and that Alcoholics Anonymous is a “bootleg cult”. He concludes that he
is “winning”.
↓ 24th Feb 2011 | “CBS and Warner Bros Television have decided to discontinue production of ‘Two and a Half Men’.” – Studio statement
Warner Bros and CBS announce that the remaining four episodes of the current series will not be produced.
↓ 26th Feb 2011 | “The word was passed to all the guards: Charlie Sheen is officially banned” – Studio source.
An insider reveals that Sheen has been banned from the Warner Bros lot.
↓ 26th Feb 2011 | “They’ll have to rename Warner Bros as Charlie’s Bros.”
Sheen responds to the news he is banned from the Warners lot.
↓ 28th Feb 2011 | “You can’t process me with a normal brain.”
Sheen gives an interview to ‘The Today Show’. He claims to have “tiger blood”, “Adonis DNA” and that he is “tired of pretending I’m not a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars”. He also demands a pay rise to return to ‘Two and a Half Men’, saying, “It’s three mil an episode. Take it or leave it.”
↓ 28th Feb 2011 | “I am on a drug, it’s called Charlie Sheen. If you try it once your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body”
‘Good Morning America’ runs an interview with Sheen during which he claims he is clean of drugs and is suing CBS.
↓ 28th Feb 2011 | “I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a seven-year-old”
Sheen gives an interview to CNN’s Piers Morgan.
↓ 29th Feb 2011 | “Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words – imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists”
Sheen gives an interview to TMZ discussing his relationship with Lorre.
↓ 1st Mar 2011 | “Who’s got it better than me?”
Sheen gives ABC’s ‘20/20’ a tour of the house he shares with his two “goddesses” and his two children with Brooke Mueller.
↓ 1st Mar 2011 | “I am very concerned that [Sheen] is currently insane” – Legal papers.
Mueller wins a restraining order in LA Superior Court. She claims Sheen threatened to cut her head off, “put it in a box and send it to your mom.” Sheen is forbidden from communicating with Mueller or going within 100 yards of her or the children.
↑ 1st Mar 2011 | “Winning..!
Choose your Vice” – Sheen tweet Sheen signs up to Twitter. His first tweet includes his new catchphrase and directs his followers to a picture of himself and one of his ‘goddesses’, holding up soft drinks. Twenty-five hours and 17 minutes after opening his account he achieves one million followers, a new world record.
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