I admit it I was just as bad as everyone else. I just could not get enough of the wildly amusing ramblings of a mad man. I tried to fit the words WINNING and TIGERBLOOD into every situation be it paying for something in the shop or in conversations with family and friends. If Charlie Sheen was addicted to winning then I was addicted to his tales of Tiger blood and Warlocks. But somewhere between the talk of fighting his boss and losing custody of his two kids the ramblings became as funny as a Brendan O’Carroll routine. The laughs stopped when it became apparent that the only thing Sheen was winning at was self destruction.
After “careful consideration” the head honchos at CBS have decided that Sheen is no longer fit for work and have fired him as the star of Two and a Half men. What they had to consider is beyond me even Stephen Ireland looks at Charlie Sheen and thinks wow that guy is nuts. You know things are bad for Sheen considering CBS did not fire him when he allegedly beat up his ex wife and thrashed a hotel room on a drugs binge. They stood by him as Two and a Half men raked in an estimated 155 million dollars in profits to CBS a year. However his latest behaviour has made him a 155 million dollar headache not worth dealing with.
Let’s thinking about that for a second how destructive does your behaviour have to become that a company walks away from 155 million a year just because of the actions of one man? Most times with diva actors studios and executives just suck it up and take the outlandish behaviour and soothe themselves with their riches. 155 million dollars can buy a lot of relaxing holidays to the Caribbean. But not in the case of Sheen once the golden boy of network sitcoms he has turned himself into been as un hireable as Mel Gibson.
Sheen transformation and indeed downward spiral has been unprecedented. Sure we have all seen crazy celebrity antics before be it Britney, shaving her head, Winona Ryder, shop lifting or anything Lindsay Lohan does but what makes this sad tale different is that through social media we all have a front row seat to the madness.
When the self professed rockstar from Mars joined Twitter he amassed over two million followers in the space of two days all eager to feast upon the morsels of WINNING insight he fed us. Now as I said above I was one of those people, but when Sheen started to go off on increasingly bizarre tangents about torpedoes of truth and promoted his radio show and webcam broadcasts where haggard and sickly looking Sheen spewed out his inner drug fuelled thoughts something dawned on me. In America you or I if we were so inclined could pop along to our local Prison take a seat and watch a man be executed in front of our very eyes and that’s is how this whole Charlie Sheen Twitter thing feels to me. We are all witness to the last words and testament of a man who is seriously ill, whose addiction has taken over him and who and to put it frankly seems like he is dying in the glare of the media spotlight.
What is lost in this entire mess are his kids. Not to sound like the Reverend’s wife in the Simpsons but won’t someone think of the children. He has five young children he has lost custody to those children and there is a real chance unless he gets some help that he will not see them again. This is a man behind all the bravado and bullshit sayings who is in serious need of help but currently he is surrounded by enablers be it his two goddess the Nanny and porn star he lives with clinging on to him for fifteen minutes of fame or his friends egging him on so they can profit through t-shirts with his slogans or the attention it brings. If they really truly cared about Sheen they would get him the help he clearly needs but I fear they are not like CBS and are unwilling to walk away from the money Sheen is bringing in. For that reason I fear that the madness will continue until its natural untimely deathly conclusion.
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