Lately, Jon Cryer has been on somewhat good terms with his Two and a Half Men co-star Charlie Sheen.
Fourteen years after Sheen was fired from the hit sitcom after battling severe addiction, Cryer appeared in the Netflix documentary Aka Charlie Sheen.
“It was fun,” the “Pretty in Pink” star mused about the September project on Friday’s “The View.” “I had a lot of mixed feelings about being a part of it. Obviously he’s a very complicated guy and we had a complicated relationship. But mostly, I realized I wasn’t mad at him anymore. I was still a little mad at America.”
Sheen and Cryer starred on “Two and a Half Men” for eight seasons from 2003 to 2011.
At the time the “Wall Street” star was fired, Sheen suffered a series of public meltdowns and clashed with the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre.
Sheen also accused Cryer of being a “traitor, traitor and troll” for not helping during the drug bust.
Ashton Kutcher replaced the “Major League” actor for the show’s final four seasons. The series ended in 2015.
But Cryer now realizes that the public was rejoicing when the scene “went off the rails and went crazy.”
“I knew him as a friend, as a colleague, so it was really painful to see all of that, to see the craziness of it, and to see so many people enjoying it,” he continued on his morning talk show. “So, obviously, that’s part of the reason why I wanted to tell my side of the story.”
Cryer said the documentary depicts people sharing “a lot of very true and tough things about Charlie.”
“And I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, if there’s ever a time to be honest, let’s be honest,'” he recalled, adding that the project was a good indication of “the kind of person he is.”
“Aka Charlie Sheen” detailed the Hollywood icon’s career, romance, and his infamous struggle with addiction.
“Then at some point he texted me, ‘Thank you for doing this,'” Cryer said.
The “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” star also said he is open to continuing to repair his relationship with Sheen.
“Yes, I do,” Siler said. “What’s funny is that sometimes articles come out that say we’re talking about it, but that’s actually not the case.”
In the doc, the Broadway performer revealed that he didn’t make as much money as Sheen during his time on the show.
Sheen earned nearly $2 million per episode in the sitcom’s final years.
At the time, Cryer was only making about $550,000 per episode. However, once Sheen left the role, Syler began earning $620,000 per episode.
Cryer claimed that Sheen’s contract negotiations “went unplanned because his life was falling apart.”
“The dictator of North Korea was a man named Kim Jong Il,” he explained. “He always acted crazy and received huge amounts of aid from countries who were so afraid of him that they poured money into him.
“Well, that’s what happened here.[Sheen’s]negotiations went unplanned because his life was falling apart. I, who had a pretty good life at the time, got a third of it.”
Meanwhile, Sheen last month praised his on-screen brother for joining “Aka Charlie Sheen.”
“It was so sweet and so cool that everyone showed up the same way, because they could have easily said, ‘Fuck it, I’m not interested. I lived it. We never have to talk about it again,'” the former CBS star told People at the time. “And I would have thought, ‘Okay, that’s fine.’ But they didn’t, they stepped up.”
As for whether their bond has grown even stronger, Sheen admitted, “I don’t like to bother people, but John would accept that. John’s a lovely guy and a very talented guy.”
