Charlie Sheen not planning to die this week, manager says

Charlie Sheen plans to go to work on "Two and a Half Men" this week rather than dying in a frenzy of hookers and cocaine, his manager told TMZ on Sunday.

Mark Burg, who said he went to Sheen's house to check on him to make sure he wasn't nearly dead, said he found the actor eating a turkey sandwich and asking for a copy of this week's script. "He looked as normal as he's looked in a long time," Burg told TMZ.

Guess it's easier to visit Sheen in person in his gated community than to, say, reach him by phone to see how things are going? Probably, given the relative ease with which bad drivers seem to snatch up cars out of the neighborhood.

The story that Sheen was on a binge of hookers and blow and "is going to die this week" came, in the wake of his allegedly drunken meltdown at the Plaza Hotel, via RadarOnline. Burg called the account "fabricated lies," and according to Gossip Cop said that Sheen was simply watching Brett Favre and the Vikings lose.

Radar's also the source of a report that an assistant allegedly found the actor last Monday night naked in a New York restaurant bathroom with cocaine on his face after trying to have $12,000 worth of sex with a porn star -- all that alleged to have happened before the hotel brouhaha in the wee hours Tuesday. Don't get us started on the $5,900 bottle of vino and the Denise Richards drop-in.

Sheen, 45, was hospitalized on Tuesday for a psychiatric evaluation and returned to L.A. that night. Porn star Capri Anderson, a.k.a. Christina Walsh, reportedly feared for her life in that hotel room last week and intends to file a civil complaint against the actor, her spokesman said. The 22-year-old actress didn't file a police report in New York.

Wife Brooke Mueller revealed Friday that she and Sheen are separated and no longer live together. "I have nothing bad to say about him," she told photographers. What a difference a year makes.

-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Charlie Sheen on "Two and a Half Men" in 2007. Credit: Greg Gayne / Warner Bros.

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Comments

[susan j. sager]

Yes - but WE ARE ALL CONCERNED about his behavior. I can count on my fingers the persons I have known (and I am not including celebrities) who have died from drugs. He is a train wreck!!!

[Anonymous]

Susan - I am not at all concerned about Charlie Sheen or his behavior. The man makes more money in a single episode then I will make in a life time. I say more power to him if he wants to get trashed and screw a bunch of hoochie women. If he dies in the process, well I'll bet he will have a smile on his face and probably no regrets as he lived his life exactly as he wanted.

[Joan]

No one "plans" to die unless they make a plan to do so. Everyone who thought it would never happen to them wasn't successful in preventing their death. The thought that one is above it all, the rules don't apply, rules exist for others, I make/have a lot of money therefore I can do what I want to and with anyone. - just delusional thinking. Addict behavior is addict behavior. He is a classic. Common sense and logic are replaced with distorted thinking and thoughts. If Charlie isn't going to truly admit he is an addict and do what it takes to regain control of his life and become sober, it won't happen and no one can do it for him. If his father is planning an intervention, he needs to do it immediately. Charlie looks terrible - is his outward appearance. One can only imagine his physical and internal condition. Great talent, great potential - sad that substances have been allowed to control and destroy his life. If he can't get beyond thinking about himself, maybe he needs to start thinking about the 5 children he brought into this world and be responsible to and for them. Tragic, yes, but doesn't have to progress to a tragic early death. There are enough people around him, but standing by as observers doesn't help Charlie - getting him the help he needs immediately is the task at hand if any one of them truly cares about him. Team effort with his father is a great place to start.