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Charlie Sheen on ‘The Dan Patrick Show’: ‘This could be my final interview’

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Of all the amazing claims that Charlie Sheen has made over the past few weeks, about Adonis DNA and mercury surfboards and AA Nazis and lions and tiger blood and bears, this one might be the most surprising: On Wednesday, he called into ‘The Dan Patrick Show’ to announce, ‘This could be my final interview.’

Three weeks have passed since Sheen first contacted the radio program, launching an unexpected press tour that’s included a number of radio stations, morning-show interviews, late-night talk-show appearances and his own self-produced Ustream show, ‘Sheen’s Korner.’ (‘Hey, it’s must-see TV,’ he quipped, sounding a little exhausted.) Earlier Wednesday morning, he even appeared on KRTH-FM (101.1) in Los Angeles. But Sheen later told Patrick, ‘[This] is where it all began and where it all ends, you know?’

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Asked what brought such an abrupt end to his interviews, he said, ‘All they do is glad-hand me to get into my home, then they vilify me. ... At the end of the day, it’s about ratings and commerce. They act concerned, but their behavior is completely the opposite.’ Sheen said that made him feel ‘bitter.’

Patrick, however, seemed genuinely concerned about the actor. ‘Are you OK?’ he asked Sheen.

‘I’m better than OK,’ Sheen insisted. ‘I’m me. I’m winning.’ But he didn’t sound convinced.

Patrick also asked if he was personally responsible for Sheen’s very troubled interviews. ‘I wouldn’t say you caused all of it,’ Sheen deadpanned. ‘Maybe 97%.’

The actor also denied accusations that he’d been ‘flubbing my lines’ or doing cocaine on the set of ‘Two and a Half Men.’ But he accepted that heds been axed from the show, and he said he thought that John Stamos and Rob Lowe, both rumored as possible replacements for his character, would be fine substitutions. (He’d previously slammed Stamos in the press.) ‘I think they’re both fabulous,’ he said, ‘and my apologies to John. I was rude to him earlier, John Stamos. That was unnecessary. And Rob’s an old friend, a brilliant actor, a beautiful man.’

The interview sounded a bit like a downbeat closing statement for Sheen -- until the very end, when he slightly amended the terms of his retirement from the press tour. ‘I won’t do any interviews except you,’ he told Patrick. ‘How ‘bout that?’

-- Melissa Maerz

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