Charlie Sheen has admitted that he has not yet contacted his Two and a half men co-star Jon Cryer despite repeatedly saying he intends to do so, and took a playful jab at his old friend for being “a little grumpy” more than a decade after their famous fight.
Sheen was speaking at a For your consideration event for the Netflix documentary Also known as 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 going to [reach out to him] and I never do,” he said. PEOPLE. “I don’t like upsetting people. But I think Jon would be open to that. Jon is a lovely man and very talented.”
During the panel portion of the night, Sheen couldn’t resist a gentle jab in Cryer’s absence.
“Jon’s not here tonight, is he? No, he’s a little grumpy like a decade and a half later. I’m like, ‘Dude, what the fuck? I’m over it. What are we doing, Jon?'”
He quickly softened and expressed genuine gratitude for everyone who agreed to participate.
“They could have easily said, ‘Fuck you. I’m not interested. I lived it. I don’t need to talk about it again.'” And I would have said, ‘Okay, okay.’ But they didn’t do it and they came forward.”
The documentary and Sheen’s memoirs The book of brilliance They both landed the same week in September 2025, and Sheen described 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 that I couldn’t capture with the written word and that [director Andrew Renzi] “I did it visually, because some things you just have to see to feel.”
He also recalled that at first he was unsure about participating, until Renzi made his case.
“He said, ‘Because you have a story that’s unlike anyone who’s ever been in the business, but also outside of it.’ And then he started listing things and I was like, okay, okay.”
Renzi put it plainly: “There’s only one Charlie Sheen… and there just aren’t many people who would have had the life he had who would want to talk about it, or who are alive to talk about it.”
Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, said he would not have taken on any of the projects if he were still under addiction.
“I think it always had a happy ending, regardless of where the story went.”
