{"id":464511,"date":"2026-05-02T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:24:12","slug":"jon-cryer-details-complicated-relationship-with-charlie-sheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464511\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Cryer details &#8216;complicated&#8217; relationship with Charlie Sheen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, Jon Cryer has somewhat of a winning relationship with his \u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d co-star Charlie Sheen.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years after Sheen was fired from the beloved sitcom following severe addiction struggles, Cryer partook in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WqQUvfsavO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Netflix documentary \u201caka Charlie Sheen.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was interesting,\u201d the \u201cPretty in Pink\u201d star mused about the September project while<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZLUfEdboQgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0on\u00a0\u201cThe View\u201d<\/a> Friday. \u201cI had a lot of mixed feelings about being a part of that because obviously he\u2019s a very complicated guy and we had a complicated relationship. But mostly I realized that I wasn\u2019t mad at him anymore: I was still kind of mad at America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheen and Cryer starred on\u00a0\u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d\u00a0for eight seasons from 2003 to 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Jon Cryer (pictured here on Friday) called appearing in his \u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d co-star\u2019s documentary, \u201caka Charlie Sheen, \u201cinteresting.\u201d  ABC\/The View<\/p>\n<p>Despite having \u201cmixed feelings\u201d about joining in on the project, the \u201cPretty in Pink\u201d actor realized he wasn\u2019t mad at Sheen anymore but was \u201ckind of mad at America.\u201d ABC\/The View<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the \u201cWall Street\u201d star\u2019s firing, Sheen suffered a series of public meltdowns and clashed with the show\u2019s creator, Chuck Lorre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2011\/12\/08\/charlie-sheen-tweets-phone-number\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheen also accused Cryer of being a \u201cturncoat, a traitor, a troll\u201d <\/a>for not reaching out to him during his drug battle.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton Kutcher replaced the \u201cMajor League\u201d actor for the show\u2019s final four seasons. The series ended in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cryer now realizes that the public took pleasure when Sheen \u201cwent off the rails and went crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cryer and Sheen starred on\u00a0\u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d\u00a0together for eight seasons from 2003 until the latter was fired in 2011 (as seen here on the show with co-star Angus T. Jones). CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Despite the show continuing without Sheen and instead with Ashton Kutcher, the Broadway performer realized that the public took pleasure when his former co-star (pictured here on the sitcom) \u201cwent off the rails and went crazy.\u201d CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d he continued while on the morning talk show. \u201cSo that\u2019s part of why I kind of wanted to, obviously, say my side of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cryer said that the documentary featured people sharing \u201ca lot of very truthful, tough things about Charlie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I thought, \u2018Well okay, if the time is to be honest, let\u2019s be honest,&#8217;\u201d he recalled, adding that the project showed \u201ca lot of who he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201caka Charlie Sheen\u201d detailed the Hollywood icon\u2019s career, romances and his infamous addiction struggles.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cNo Small Affair\u201d actor called it \u201creally painful\u201d to see the public enjoying Sheen\u2019s struggles.  ABC\/The View<\/p>\n<p>Cryer (pictured here in the September documentary) said he partook in the project after thinking, \u2018Well okay, if the time is to be honest, let\u2019s be honest.&#8217;\u201d Netflix<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did text me afterward at one point to say \u2018Thanks for doing it,&#8217;\u201d Cryer expressed.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee\u201d star also said he would be open to continuing to repair his relationship with Sheen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I would,\u201d Cyrer shared. \u201cIt\u2019s funny because every now and then an article comes out that we\u2019re arguing, and it\u2019s just not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the doc, the Broadway performer opened up about <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/09\/15\/entertainment\/jon-cryer-reveals-his-two-and-a-half-men-salary-that-was-less-than-half-of-charlie-sheens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not earning nearly as much as Sheen did<\/a> while on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Cryer revealed that Sheen (pictured here together in 2009) did text him after the doc to thank him for participating.  Kevin Winter<\/p>\n<p>The former CBS star also said he\u2019d be open to continuing to repair their relationship with his on-screen brother (pictured here together in 2003). FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p>Sheen made close to two million dollars an episode during his final year on the sitcom.<\/p>\n<p>Cryer was only earning about $550,000 per episode at that time. Once Sheen departed, however, Cyrer began\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/two-a-men-jon-cryer-449110\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">earning $620,000 an episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cryer claimed that Sheen\u2019s contract negotiations \u201cwent off the charts because his life was falling apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong-Il,\u201d he explained. \u201cHe 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. <\/p>\n<p>Sheen (pictured here in the doc) praised Cryer for participating in \u201caka Charlie Sheen,\u201d saying: \u201cIt was very sweet, very cool that everybody showed up like they did.\u201d Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood icon (pictured here with Cryer in 2009) said he also thinks \u201cJon would be open\u201d to reconnecting, adding, \u201cJon\u2019s a lovely man and a very talented guy.\u201d Netflix<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, that\u2019s what happened here. [Sheen\u2019s] 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, last month, Sheen praised his on-screen brother for joining in on \u201caka Charlie Sheen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very sweet, very cool that everybody showed up like they did, because they could have easily said, \u2018Go f\u2013k yourself. I\u2019m not interested. I lived it. I don\u2019t need to talk about it again,&#8217;\u201d the former CBS star <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/charlie-sheen-jon-cryer-still-havent-spoken-since-documentary-exclusive-11958237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told People<\/a>\u00a0at the time. \u201cAnd I would have been, \u2018OK, that\u2019s fine.\u2019 But they didn\u2019t, and they stepped up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for if the pair have further connected, Sheen admitted, \u201cI don\u2019t like to bother people. But I think Jon would be open to that. Jon\u2019s a lovely man and a very talented guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These days, Jon Cryer has somewhat of a winning relationship with his \u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d co-star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[6290,2110,32924,18,117,19,17,41795,204020,128],"class_list":["post-464511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-celebrity-friendships","tag-celebrity-news","tag-charlie-sheen","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jon-cryer","tag-sitcoms","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116503554927808046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}