Charlie Sheen looks back at “winning blood and tiger” a decade after his life got off the rails

Charlie Sheen’s illustrious acting career has undoubtedly been overshadowed in the media by his “winning” wizard during a very public breakdown a decade ago.

On the 10th anniversary of Sheen’s “tiger blood” melting, the 55-year-old recounts his downfall and makes plans for “Act 3” in a new candid interview with Yahoo! Entertainment.

In 2011, Sheen was at the peak of her professional career as the highest paid actor on television, when she got into substance abuse and mental health issues.

‘People have [said to] Me, “Hey, man, it was so cool, it was so much fun to watch. It was so cool to be a part and support and all that energy and, you know, I glued it to the man,” Sheen recalls. in his interview.

“My thought behind it is, ‘Oh, yes, great. I’m so glad I changed early retirement with a negative hashtag, “he continued, referring to #winning and #tigerblood – two of his famous phrases that have permanently become the goddess of pop culture.

A decade ago, Charlie had dozens of high-quality film roles under his role and rushed an episode of his hit CBS series Two and Half Men to nearly two million.

Despite his flourishing professional success, internally, the actor was on a dark path to addiction and mental health problems, after the divorce of his third wife Brooke Mueller.

Sheen offered a series of highly publicized interviews with various news items in which she appeared hyper, messy and scattered. The glass-eyed star has now uttered his iconic expressions, declaring that he “wins”, drinks “tiger blood”, that he has “ADONIS adonis” and other digressions.

When network executives tried to push him, he demanded a higher salary and engaged in a public dispute with CBS powers such as Les Moonves and Chuck Lorre.

– There is a time when [former CBS CEO] Les Moonves and his top lawyer, Bruce, were at my house and said, “OK, the Warner plane is powered on the runway. The wheels get up in an hour and I’m going to rehab, right?” My first thought was kind of like really … there’s a certain amount of comedy to what was my first thought, “Sheen recalled.

‘At that moment, when I said,’ Oh, hell, I’m finally getting the Warner plane. ‘ That’s all I heard, he continued, adding regretfully. “But if I could go back in time to that point, I would have gotten on the plane. And that gigantic turn to the left at that moment led to, you know, a very unfortunate sequence of public and crazy events.

Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men in March 2011 and replaced in series by Ashton Kutcher.

“There were 55 different ways to deal with this situation and we chose number 56,” he said. “And so, you know, I think the growth for me after melting or melting before or melting somewhere – whatever you want to label it – has to start with the absolute property of my role in all of this.” He added that his behavior was “desperate for a minor”.

Unknown to the public at the time, Sheen was diagnosed with HIV in the same year – a fact he would later reveal in 2015. When he finally announced his diagnosis, the actor revealed that, since 2011, he has almost surpassed $ 10 million to keep HIV alive. secret status.

“I think it was drugs or the residual effects of drugs… and it was also an ocean of stress and a volcano of contempt,” the Major League star said of his breakdown. “Everything was self-generated, you know.”

“I was charging and my brain wasn’t working well,” Sheen continued. “To say it was a little overwhelming is a radical understatement.”

The 2011 incidents were not Sheen’s first or even second substance abuse brush. Charlie has been arrested in the past on charges of drugs and assault, and in 1998 he overdosed on cocaine, suffering a stroke.

He also went to rehab several times for his problems.

After firing from Two and a Half Men, Sheen performed a series of one-man sold-out shows at Radio City Musical, with treasures of fans wearing tiger-blooded T-shirts and shouting “winning” from the audience. .

The support and fanfare of his bottom moment, as if it was intentionally made by the performer, he remembers, even made the situation worse for him.

“They appeared en masse with banners and songs, all kinds of marching bands and the celebration of what I think was a very public presentation of a moment of mental health,” he said looking back.

Following her breakdown, Sheen appeared to have straightened up and played in the Anger Management series on FX for two seasons, but then fell largely off the map. However, he has plans to return to the front of the room.

“I just have absolute confidence that the things I’m going to do professionally in Act 3 will put a dent in all of those things, and people can celebrate me again for what I’m actually doing for a living,” he told Yahoo.