‘There’s always hope’
The falling star lost his battle for sole custody of his two sons last week, with his soon-to-be-ex-wife Brooke Mueller, apparently entering rehab. Sheen filed for divorce earlier this year after he was convicted of assaulting her in December, 2009. Brooke was awarded primary custody of the twins, and last month she won a temporary restraining order against Sheen, while the children were removed from his home. All this in the wake of the dismal reaction to his solo tour, Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option.
The Platoon, Wall Street and Hot Shots star was enjoying a resurgence fronting hit Warner Bros sitcom, Two and Half Men, but his career went into freefall early this year when he was booted off his $1.8m-per-show deal for allegedly abusing drugs in the workplace and launching an anti-Semitic verbal attack on the show’s creator. He is in litigation with the studio. His tour, in which he hoped to win over a sceptical American public, got off to a bad start when his debut performance was booed in Detroit, and despite a recovery with a well-received show in Chicago, his New York gig saw “the self-described ‘warlock’ at war with his own booing and heckling audience”, said the city’s Village Voice magazine.
