NEWSCharlie Sheen Tells Matt Lauer on 'Today': "That Was Just One Crazy Chapter"
Sept. 16 2011, Published 7:15 a.m. ET
In a new interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, Charlie Sheen opens up about being a different person now than from his "Tiger Blood" days, which he calls "one crazy chapter" of his life.
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Charlie really believed that after his scandal simmered he'd be back on Two and a Half Men.
"I thought when I was still doing my tour that there was a shot (at going back),” Charlie admitted to Matt in his new interview on Today.
"Regardless of how I felt about some of the people, or how it went wrong, or why it went wrong, I still wanted to have some measure of closure with the show,” he explained. “That’s the part that really hurt the most, was not feeling like I could ever really finish it, just cut off, right in the middle."
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But as for his "Tiger Blood" antics, those days are done.
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"I think it's important that people see that I see and I feel that that was just one crazy chapter, one weird phase, and that I was this guy before it started and I can be that guy again afterwards, you know," Charlie said.
And the Two and a Half Men star says he will "of course" being watching the show with Ashton Kutcher.
"I'm also really curious about what happened to me," he said. "Because I don't look at it just as what they're doing forward, I look at it as what I left behind for them to continue, and how they're going to figure all that out. So really, my hat's off to them, if they can pull it off."
Watch a clip of Charlie's interview, below!
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