Nearly 15 years after Charlie Sheen got fired from ‘Two and a Half Men,’ he says he still hasn’t made up with his old co-star Jon Cryer. And the reason, according to Sheen, comes down to a weird hang-up about making a phone call.
Both actors appear in a 2025 documentary called “aka Charlie Sheen,” but they’re still not on speaking terms. Sheen recently talked about the cold feelings between them at a panel event in Los Angeles. He admitted that even though a conversation could probably happen, he just hasn’t done it.
Charlie Sheen Calls Jon Cryer a “Lovely Man” With a Playful Jab
At a For Your Consideration event, Sheen told People Magazine, “Every time this comes up, I say I’m going to [reach out to him] and I never do. I don’t like to bother people. But I think Jon would be open to that.” He also praised his former TV brother, saying, “Jon’s a lovely man and a very talented guy.”
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But Sheen couldn’t help but throw a little playful jab at Cryer for not showing up to the recent event. He made fun of the bad blood left over from their 2011 split. Sheen was fired from the CBS comedy after a very public breakdown that included him going on angry rants about the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre.
“Jon’s not here tonight, is he? No,” Sheen joked to the crowd. “He’s a little grudgy like a decade and a half later. I’m like, ‘Dude, what the f—k? I got over it. What are we doing, Jon?’”
The Turncoat Traitor Troll Fallout Still Stings
The whole thing got pretty ugly back then. When Sheen was fired, Cryer, who played the nervous Alan Harper opposite Sheen’s womanizing Charlie Harper, stayed on the show. He ended up starring with Ashton Kutcher for four more seasons. At the time, Sheen was going through a rough patch and lashed out in public, calling Cryer a “turncoat, a traitor, a troll.”
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Cryer has said before that those words hurt. Remembering the day Sheen was fired on ‘The Meredith Vieira Show‘, Cryer said his publicist told him to hold off on saying anything supportive because “he’s called you a traitor, a turncoat and a troll.” More recently, Cryer said the distance between them is permanent. “We don’t have a relationship anymore,” Cryer told Bill Maher last year. “I wish him the best.”
Charlie Sheen Feels Grateful Despite the Permanent Distance
Even with the awkwardness, Sheen says he is really grateful that Cryer agreed to be in the Netflix documentary, which covers Sheen’s rise, his fall, and his comeback.
“It was very sweet, very cool that everybody showed up like they did, because they could have easily said, ‘Go f—k yourself. I’m not interested. I lived it. I don’t need to talk about it again,’” Sheen said. “And I would have been, ‘OK, that’s fine.’ But they didn’t, and they stepped up.”
So for now, these two TV brothers are still stuck in the same place. One is waiting for a reason to reach out, and the other seems fine leaving the past behind.
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