Charlie Sheen‘s infamous 2011 drug-fueled meltdown that led to his firing from CBS’ Two and a Half Men is the stuff of Hollywood legend.
Now Netflix has revealed the first trailer (below) for a tell-all documentary about the actor’s collapse featuring interviews with Sheen and many of his family and friends. The interviews include Denise Richards, Heidi Fleiss, Jon Cryer, Sean Penn, Ramon Estevez, Brooke Mueller and Chris Tucker, as well as Sheen’s former drug dealer. Notably, Two and a Half Men executive producer Chuck Lorre — who was on the receiving end of so many of Sheen’s attacks — is also among the interviews.
“Tabloid black hole Charlie Sheen knows what’s been said about him, and he’s finally ready to confess,” teases the official description for the film, titled aka Charlie Sheen.
The trailer suggests the interview subjects don’t hold back either. Fleiss calls the actor “a crybaby pussy bitch.” Cryer recalls, “[Sheen] kept saying, ‘I’m in the hospital now, but next week I’ll be ready for the show.” While his dealer says, “When Charlie says he was smoking seven-gram rocks, he was smoking seven-gram rocks.”
Sheen adds, “The stuff I plan on sharing is stuff I had made a sacred vow to only reveal to a therapist.”
From the documentary’s official description: “Directed by Andrew Renzi (Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?), aka Charlie Sheen tracks his upbringing in Malibu to his effortless rise to megastardom — and dramatic fall, all within the public eye. With a stunning clarity earned through seven years of sobriety, Sheen openly speaks about the subjects and events he’s never discussed publicly before … the most outrageous moments of Sheen’s life are revisited with raw emotion and exceptional warmth, painting a portrait of a flawed man whose penchant for self-destruction is ultimately no match for the ferocious love and forgiveness he inspires in those closest to him.”
Back in 2011, Sheen was riding high as the Emmy-nominated star of a highly rated sitcom. He was earning $1.8 million per episode as TV’s highest-paid actor during the show’s eighth season. But the show went on hiatus while Sheen went to rehab. The actor soon relapsed and shocked Hollywood and his fans when he began going public with unhinged rants about producer Lorre. Sheen was kicked off the series and replaced with Ashton Kutcher. Sheen then he took his mania on the road with a disastrous touring show.
aka Charlie Sheen is a two-part documentary that premieres Sept. 10 on Netflix. It’s from production companies Skydance, North of Now, Boardwalk Pictures, Atlas Independent and executive produced by Richard Lichter, Toby Emmerich, Michael Minahan, Vivian Johnson Rogowski. Unlike some celebrity documentaries, Sheen is not himself listed among the producers, which suggests the team had creative independence.