In a real act of “Anger Management,” Charlie Sheen came clean about his epic meltdown last year, bluntly calling it a “psychotic break.”
Sheen lost his prized “Two and a Half Men” gig for going on a booze- and hooker-fueled bender and then ripping his bosses when they asked him to tone it down.
“I started to unravel,” Sheen told Playboy magazine. “I finally just said things I had always been thinking. But in the middle of a psychotic break.”
As he was partying and shooting his mouth off, Sheen said he never anticipated losing his job or becoming a national punch line for out-of-control behavior.
“Yeah. It was surreal,” said Sheen, who is making his TV comeback on FX’s “Anger Management.”
“And it never occurred to me where this was going to end up or how it was going to be perceived.”
With a year to look back, Sheen said he can laugh at it all — especially all the terms he coined for 2011 pop culture, such as “winning,” “goddesses” “tiger blood” and “warlocks.”
“It’ so f–king stupid. I’m in a beef with a warlock society?” Sheen chuckled.
“You’re kidding me, right? How do you go from making Oliver Stone movies to being in a feud with warlocks?”
To no one’s shock, Sheen’s bad-boy antics go back to childhood.
He recalled, as a teen, using dad Martin Sheen’s credit card for a Las Vegas hooker. The “West Wing” dad simply dropped the Visa bill in front of Sheen.
“There’s one thing circled, and it’s $350. There’s an arrow pointing to it and three words: ‘What is this?’” Sheen said. “He had gone back to my bedroom and was just waiting for me.”
Sheen said he knew he had been caught with his hand — among other body parts — in the cookie jar.
“It was brilliant. That was a long walk,” he added. “I was like a defense attorney going into trial against video evidence.”
Sheen didn’t hide his ongoing love of money and women. He said virtually every other actor in Tinseltown is after the same thing
“A lot of people will say ‘Oh, I got into acting because I wanted to explore my craft,’” Sheen said.
“They’re a bunch of liars, unless they’re Sean Penn, [Robert] DeNiro or my dad. For the rest of us it was all about chicks and money. Seriously. It was about how I could get money so I could impress girls and feel like I mattered.”
Now, Sheen said he’s in a better place and focused on work again — at least when he’s not seeing ghosts.
Sheen said he’s eyeballed the spirit of departed pals, such as “Wild Orchid” and “9 ½ Weeks” writer Zalman King and the dad of a close friend.
“I’m not f–king high or experimenting with psychedelics and shit. I just accept stuff like that and don’t try to figure it out,” Sheen said.
“I saw these people, or their spirits or whatever, for a reason. I don’t know what the reason is right now, but maybe it’ll be revealed some other time.”