Charlie Sheen has admitted that he still hasn’t found his way Two and a half men co-star Jon Cryer, despite repeatedly saying he intends to do so, playfully taking a swipe at his old friend for being “a bit mad” more than a decade after their famous clash.
Sheen spoke at For your consideration event for the Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles on April 22, where he was asked about reconnecting with Cryer, who also starred in the film.
“Every time this comes up, I say I’m doing it [reach out to him] and I never do,” he shared PEOPLE. “I don’t like to bother people. But I think Jon would be open to it. Jon is a lovely man and a very talented guy.”
During the panel portion of the evening, Sheen couldn’t resist a gentle nudge at Cryer’s absence.
“Jon’s not here tonight, is he? No, he’s kind of mad like a decade and a half later. I’m like, ‘Dude, what the f—? I got over it. What are we doing, Jon?’
He quickly softened and expressed genuine appreciation for everyone who agreed to participate.
“They could have easily said, ‘Go to yourself. I’m not interested. I lived it. I don’t need to talk about it again.’ And I would have been, ‘OK, that’s fine.’ But they didn’t, and they went up.’
The documentary and Sheen’s memoirs The Book of Sheen both landed in the same week in September 2025, with Sheen describing the experience of finally documenting his story as a relief.
“It’s documented and I think it’s told beautifully, visually and hopefully decently. There are things in the book that aren’t in the document and vice versa, because there are things I couldn’t capture in the written word that [director Andrew Renzi] did visually, because some things you just have to see to feel.”
He also recalled that he was unsure about participating at first until Renzi made his case.
“He said, ‘Because you have a history unlike anyone who’s ever just been in the business, but also outside of it’. And then he went through a list of things, and I’m like, okay, okay.”
Renzi put it plainly: “There is only one Charlie Sheen … and there are just not many people who would have had the life he had, who would want to talk about it, or are alive to talk about it.”
Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, said he would not have taken on either project while still in the grip of addiction.
“I think it always had a happy ending attached to it no matter where the story went.”
