John Kryer earned almost as little as his “Two and a half men” co-star, Charlie Sheen.
In her final year in Sheen’s sitcom, the “Platoon” star made nearly $2 million on the episode, but Kryer made at least two-thirds less.
The duo’s salary has been undergoing new scrutiny following the Netflix documentary, “aka Charlie Sheen.”
In it, Kryer claims that Sheen’s contract negotiations “abandoned the charts because his life is falling apart.”
The “Pink Cute” star followed to compare the scene to the infamous global henchman.
“The North Korean dictator was a man named Kim Jung-il,” explained Kryer. “He always acted like a crazy person, and he received a huge amount of help from a country that scared him so much.
“Well, that’s what happened here. The negotiations (of the scene) fell off the charts as his life fell apart.
Kryer added that CBS was under the gun to sign the scene because they “sold some extra seasons of the show in advance.”
Ultimately, the 60-year-old Sheen was fired from the show in 2011 for his volatile behaviour of publicly criticizing the show’s creator Chuck Roll and claiming he was low-paid.
After being fired, the “Major League” star declared he had “Tiger Blood” and embarked on tour.
Ashton Kutcher replaced the scene after he left, and the sitcom aired four more seasons.
Kryer’s salary has now reached a maximum of $620,000 while being paid $700,000 per episode.
Others interviewed in the documentary include Sheen’s childhood friends, Pal Sean Penn and two ex-wives of Sheen, Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller.
Richards, who shares his two daughters, Sami and Laura with the scene, remembers that “two and a half men” producers often call her to check on her ex-husband when they haven’t heard from him.
During one visit, the former “housewife” said she went to Sheen’s house with food, but Kryer was there too.
“I’m making sandwiches and John is very nervous and he says, ‘What are you doing?’ I go, ‘Well, he’s not eating, and I’m making sandwiches,’ Richards said.
“And you see two or three prostitutes coming downstairs. And I remember John asking me, ‘Are you making them sandwiches?” And I said, “Yeah, what are I going to say?
The scene also opens up for the first time about his HIV diagnosis in a documentary, sleeping with a man while on drug use.
