The Charlie Sheen saga continues: He has advice for Lindsay Lohan [Updated]
After giving a very strange interview to "The Dan Patrick Show" earlier this week, Charlie Sheen was back on the sports talk radio program on Wednesday, ready to dish out more advice, this time to Lindsay Lohan: “Just try to think things through a little bit before you do them.”
Sheen might be smart to take his own advice: During the Wednesday interview, he seemed to talk off the top of his head about any number of topics, such as ...
... whether or not he's ever shown up drunk to work: “[I’ve] never been drunk, never been high on the set once. But I would show up not having slept much. Doing a network run-through and asking the director, Jamie, to move my mark a little bit so I could be next to a piece of furniture or a table so I wouldn’t fall over.”
... how grateful he feels to Viacom for staging an intervention: "Viacom showed up at my house and said, 'Dude, it’s getting really obvious, and we’re really worried about you. We don’t give a rat’s tooey about the show. We care about your health.' " [Updated at 10:29 a.m.: Sheen clearly meant CBS, not Viacom. CBS was once owned by Viacom but was spun off years ago. Sheen’s personal publicist Stan Rosenfield called the mistake a “vocal typo.”]
... what's happened since he told UCLA's baseball team, "Stay off the crack. Drink chocolate milk": “I was elected president of the United States of America.”
For the very brave (and unstrapped for time), the rest of the interview can be found through Patrick's site.
-- Melissa Maerz
Photo: Charlie Sheen. Credit: Ethan Miller / Getty Images
Okay, so he says he doesn't 'work' under the influence, but he does work when he's so exhausted he can barely stay up straight. Great. All the money he makes per episode and this is the best he can be bothered to give us much of the time? Just think of all the actors who give 100% on-set, but earn less in a year than this guy makes in an hour. He's not worth his salary. He doesn't appreciate his opportunities in life. He doesn't really deserve what life has handed to him on a platter. I used to appreciate his work. I haven't lately, and will have a tough time caring much about anything he does in the future unless he cleans up his 'act'.
Posted by: Minnesota Mike | February 16, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Never thought it could happen, but I'm beginning to think all the space going to the stupidity coming from Sheen would be better used reporting on all the stupidity coming from Sarah Palin.
This guy will be dead long before most of us.
I feel enormous empathy for his father.
Posted by: Alice Peters | February 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM
I was watching an episode of SNL on Netflix. On Weekend Update, they had a joke about Sheen's troubles with paying a porn star and being in court for drug offenses.
No big deal really, until you realize that the episode was from 1999. If he hasn't changed in 12 years, he's never going to.
Posted by: DG3 | February 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Showing up on the set not having slept much? What does that mean, that he stopped smoking crack a few hours before work? Mighty kind of him! For Charlie to be giving other people advice at this stage proves he hasn't even begun to recover. You'd be better off getting pointers from the captain of the Titanic.
Posted by: Mizzle | February 16, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Mr. Sheen, There is something that is wild in you that no one will be able to tame but you. Thank god. Wildness does need to happen. You are an Errol Flynn. You are a Martin Sheen. That wildness flame will burn until you decide you've had enough. If that ever will happen. Some need to climb Mt. Everest. Some need to climb the Boredom Pass. Mister, you are not alone.
Posted by: Mart Fink | February 16, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Who cares what this moron thinks. Everyone in his family, including his dopey father Martin Sheen, were born with tails. My bet says their IQ's rarely get to room temperatures....
Posted by: Verbalocity | February 16, 2011 at 12:53 PM
He is a comedian, not a politician. This is funny stuff. Charlie needs to find his happy place but afaic he's doing a great job.
Posted by: dogsrbetterthanpeople | February 16, 2011 at 01:09 PM
He makes a million dollars an episode. Unbelievable.
Posted by: Cherie A | February 16, 2011 at 01:24 PM
It's all about ratings, which is why Charlie is just fine with CBS.
Posted by: Marco | February 16, 2011 at 01:30 PM
What would be even more ridiculous than Charlie Sheen offering advice to Lindsay Lohan is if she was stupid enough to take his advice.
Posted by: Bradford Talamon | February 16, 2011 at 02:48 PM
The Patrick-Sheen dialogs remind me of the days when Jack Paar had greatly troubled stars Oscar Levant and Judy Garland come on his show and scare everyone with their dysfunction.
Posted by: Chas Fleishman | February 17, 2011 at 09:05 AM
he still seems to be in denial.....appears as if he doesn't think he has a problem....still arrogant as ever. once he accepts he has a problem and sincerely apologizes to all he has hurt with his behavior, then maybe therapy will begin to help him change.
after acceptance and apology, then he needs to begin his LIFELONG therapy. yep, therapy forever CHARLIE !!! seems he has so many people who love him and depend on him. not to forget he has really cute and adorable children. . . . . .
Posted by: getwellasap | February 17, 2011 at 07:19 PM
I have heard that actors used to practice a acting technic that makes them act in real life like the person they represent in the acting scene. I remember! It was in Biography channel and that technic was used by such actors as Marlo Brando and Jack Nicholson, the last even had a job driving a taxi...for the movie "Taxi Driver", so i think Charlie Sheen is acting like the best professional actor practices, and they actually are to party with wonderful women, drinking and waste drugs in the floor mate. Now i understand why he looks so real when he losses his patience with listening his brother problems with women and money.
Posted by: Nuno | February 22, 2011 at 09:09 AM