These days, Jon Cryer has somewhat of a winning relationship with his “Two and a Half Men” co-star Charlie Sheen.
Fourteen years after Sheen was fired from the beloved sitcom following severe addiction struggles, Cryer partook in the Netflix documentary “aka Charlie Sheen.”
“It was interesting,” the “Pretty in Pink” star mused about the September project while on “The View” Friday. “I had a lot of mixed feelings about being a part of that because obviously he’s a very complicated guy and we had a complicated relationship. But mostly I realized that I wasn’t mad at him anymore: I was still kind of mad at America.”
Sheen and Cryer starred on “Two and a Half Men” for eight seasons from 2003 to 2011.
At the time of the “Wall Street” star’s firing, Sheen suffered a series of public meltdowns and clashed with the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre.
Sheen also accused Cryer of being a “turncoat, a traitor, a troll” for not reaching out to him during his drug battle.
Ashton Kutcher replaced the “Major League” actor for the show’s final four seasons. The series ended in 2015.
However, Cryer now realizes that the public took pleasure when Sheen “went off the rails and went crazy.”
“I knew him as a friend, as a coworker, so it was really painful to see all that and see that craziness and see a lot of people enjoying it,” he continued while on the morning talk show. “So that’s part of why I kind of wanted to, obviously, say my side of the story.”
Cryer said that the documentary featured people sharing “a lot of very truthful, tough things about Charlie.”
“And I thought, ‘Well okay, if the time is to be honest, let’s be honest,’” he recalled, adding that the project showed “a lot of who he is.”
“aka Charlie Sheen” detailed the Hollywood icon’s career, romances and his infamous addiction struggles.
“He did text me afterward at one point to say ‘Thanks for doing it,’” Cryer expressed.
The “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” star also said he would be open to continuing to repair his relationship with Sheen.
“Yeah, I would,” Cyrer shared. “It’s funny because every now and then an article comes out that we’re arguing, and it’s just not the case.”
In the doc, the Broadway performer opened up about not earning nearly as much as Sheen did while on the show.
Sheen made close to two million dollars an episode during his final year on the sitcom.
Cryer was only earning about $550,000 per episode at that time. Once Sheen departed, however, Cyrer began earning $620,000 an episode.
Cryer claimed that Sheen’s contract negotiations “went off the charts because his life was falling apart.”
“The dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong-Il,” he explained. “He acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him that they would shovel money at him.
“Well, that’s what happened here. [Sheen’s] negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart. Me, whose life was pretty good at that time, I got a third of that.”
Meanwhile, last month, Sheen praised his on-screen brother for joining in on “aka Charlie Sheen.”
“It was very sweet, very cool that everybody showed up like they did, because they could have easily said, ‘Go f–k yourself. I’m not interested. I lived it. I don’t need to talk about it again,’” the former CBS star told People at the time. “And I would have been, ‘OK, that’s fine.’ But they didn’t, and they stepped up.”
As for if the pair have further connected, Sheen admitted, “I don’t like to bother people. But I think Jon would be open to that. Jon’s a lovely man and a very talented guy.”
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