Has Hollywood canceled once hunky Charlie Sheen? The short answer is yes.
In and out of alcohol and drug rehab, a go-to pullover for the Los Angeles Police Department, having a thing for working girls and adult actresses, and his HIV positive status are all bad enough. But then we have to throw in his generally rude behavior to just about anyone and everyone and his abuse of women. No, since around 2015 once mega-wealthy Charlie Sheen has pretty much been canceled by Hollywood.
That means nobody, including his many ex-wives, wants to know the guy. Or work with him. And that also means that it's hard, if not impossible, for him to get funding for his own projects.
He's managed to p*** off just about the whole of Hollywood and most of his fans. And what is even worse, he doesn't give a damn. Charlie Sheen thinks Charlie Sheen is the center of the universe. He's solipsistic, a fancy word that means he's egocentric and totally self-referential. And that makes him almost impossible to work with.
Let's put it this way: When Anger Management was canceled in 2014, it spelled the end for Charlie.
Hollywood has indeed effectively canceled Charlie Sheen. Let's look at his background and the evidence. Charlie Sheen is so nonexistent in Hollywood these days, it's not a bit funny.
The Hard Facts
Other than a couple of video shorts Charlie Sheen has not done a proper acting job since 2017. And, according to IMDb, he's only had around 8 acting jobs since his long-running hit Anger Management ended in 2014. If that's not canceled, we don't know what is.
And that all-important net worth number? Well, in 2012 TheRichest.com pegged his net worth at $125,000. These days? It's around $10 million. Johnny Depp only managed to lose half his $400,000 net worth. Charlie's managed to blow over 90 percent of his.
At the height of his career on Two and a Half Men, he was the highest-paid actor on television, making 1.8 million dollars per episode. Then in 2011 Charlie got mad about something and called the show's creator Chuck Lorre a "turd" (amongst other things) and got fired.
That was the beginning of the "ranting and raving" Charlie Sheen. And the beginning of the end for Charlie in Hollywood.
The In-Joke That Was "Anger Management"
Somehow, he managed to persuade Lionsgate to cast him in Anger Management in 2012. It was kind of a joke because Sheen with his own mega-anger management issues was cast in the role of anger management therapist Charlie Goodson. Reports of his poor work ethic, showing up late, and not knowing his lines, led co-star Selma Blair to complain about him. Charlie pitched one and said she had to go or he would. So, she was fired.
So what's wrong with the guy? Even back in 2011 Psychology Today suggested his manic and delusional behavior might be suggestive of bipolar disorder.
But, in reality, Charlie didn't and doesn't give a damn. And that's the problem. Hollywood ignores him in part because it is afraid of what he might say and do. Who is going to invest good money in putting that kind of guy in a TV show or movie when he is an obvious nutcase but won't admit it? In other words, Charlie has come to believe he's sane and the rest of us are crazy.
His Treatment Of Women
Another big issue with Hollywood and his ex-fan base is his treatment of the women in his life. His repeated violence towards and abuse of girlfriends, wives and exes have mounted up and made him unmarketable.
Let's look at the history: In 1996, he was arrested for assaulting his former girlfriend Brittany Ashland. During his divorce from Denise Richardson in 2006, she claimed he had "physically and verbally abused and threatened to kill her". In 2009, he was arrested for the assault on his then-wife Brooke Mueller. After his divorce from Mueller, he tweeted her a picture of a grenade and invited her to blow it out. She wasted no time in filing for a restraining order.
Then between 2014 and 2015, he managed to assault a dental technician and called his ex-Denise Richards a "shame pile" and "washed up". Think it was a coincidence that Anger Management was canceled in 2014? Think again.
The cumulative effect of Charlie's abusive and violent behavior towards women, coupled with his angry rants and erratic behavior, almost certainly were responsible for a substantial drop in viewing numbers. Charlie, in other words, was bad for business.
The Final Straw
It only got worse. Reportedly Charlie agreed to go on The Today Show and admit that he was HIV positive because there were people out there trying to blackmail him. Pay or we'll out you, was the message
In November of 2015, Sheen went onto the show. He said: "I’m here to admit that I am, in fact, HIV positive. I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks, of sub-truths, and very harmful stories that are about threatening the health of so many others, which couldn’t be farther from the truth."
And that was pretty much it as far as Hollywood was concerned. Charlie Sheen simply didn't exist anymore. After years of arrogance, rants, violence, insults, and abuse of women, the HIV positive diagnosis was the end of Charlie Sheen. He was so totally canceled as far as Hollywood was concerned.
