Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer still haven’t spoken since aka Charlie Sheen was released.
Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer have not spoken since Netflix doc
The pair co-starred on sitcom Two And A Half Men for eight years before production was halted in 2011 due to Sheen’s spiralling drug addiction. Charlie was later fired and replaced by Ashton Kutcher and Sheen and Cryer have not spoken for years.
However, after Cryer agreed to contribute to his Netflix documentary, aka Charlie Sheen, Charlie wants to reconnect with his former co-star.
He told PEOPLE: “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. Jon’s a lovely man and a very talented guy.”
Charlie also poked fun at Jon for holding a grudge, quipping: “I don’t know if I was surprised” [by anything that Cryer said in the documentary]. He’s a little grudgy like a decade and a half later. I’m like, ‘Dude, what the f***? I got over it. What are we doing, Jon?’”
However, he got serious as he shared how grateful he was to friends and colleagues for taking part.
He said: “No, but it was very sweet, very cool that everybody showed up like they did, because they could have easily said, ‘Go f*** yourself. I’m not interested. I lived it. I don’t need to talk about it again.’ And I would have been, ‘OK, that’s fine.’ But they didn’t, and they stepped up.”
Charlie also revealed how “relieved” he felt to have his ups and downs documented in his memoir The Book of Sheen and aka Charlie Sheen, which were both released in September 2025.
He said: “Relieved. It’s documented, and I think told beautifully, visually and, hopefully, decently. And there’s stuff in the book that’s not in the doc and vice versa, because there are things I couldn’t capture with the written word that [director Andrew Renzi] did visually, because some things you just have to see to feel it. And there were some stories I couldn’t tell well enough on camera that I knew I could tell through my pen.”
Charlie – who has been sober for eight years – added: “I think it always sort of had a happy ending attached to it, regardless of where the story went.”
Meanwhile, Cryer previously insisted he doesn’t want to be part of Charlie Sheen’s “cycle”
Speaking in aka Charlie Sheen, Jon said: “I worked with Charlie Sheen for eight years. And if you wonder what it’s like to work with Charlie Sheen for eight years, when I started, I had hair.
“I had some trepidation about participating in this, partially because part of the cycle of Charlie Sheen’s life has been that he messes up terribly, he hits rock bottom, and then he gets things he gets things going again.
“And he brings a lot of positivity in his life, and that’s when he burns himself out again. He just can’t help but set that house on fire, and I didn’t want to be a part of that cycle.
“I’m not here to build him up and I’m not here to tear him down. But I sure hope this doesn’t go bad.”
