Sheen will return — if he gets $3m per episode

WILDMAN Charlie Sheen, one of American TV’s highest-paid actors, wants a pay rise.

The troubled star has continued an attack on the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men’s network, CBS, and its producers for shutting it down because of his off-set behaviour.

He went on ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today, in startling interviews that overshadowed morning-after Oscars coverage.

Sheen boasted about his “epic” partying, said he is fuelled by “violent hatred” of his bosses, said he cleaned up from drugs at home at his “Sober Valley Lodge” and said he was “tired of pretending I’m not a total, bitchin’ rock star from Mars.”

NBC interviewer Jeff Rossen appeared taken aback when Sheen said he wanted to be paid $3 million (€2.17m) an episode to return to the show. He is already reportedly paid $1.8m (€1.3m) an episode. “You want a raise?” Rossen asked. Sheen: “Yeah, look what they put me through.”

On ABC, Sheen said to correspondent Andrea Canning that he planned to sue his bosses.

“Wouldn’t you?” he said. “I’ve got a whole family to support and love. People beyond me are relying on that. I’m here to collect. They’re going to lose in a courtroom, so I would recommend that they settle out of court.”

While Sheen said last week it would be impossible to do a ninth season of Two and a Half Men with the show’s creators in charge, he said he has changed his mind but CBS owes him an apology, “publicly, while licking my feet.”

Sheen said he is bored now with cocaine. But he said he “exposed people to magic” when they partied with him and that he loved doing drugs.

“What’s not to love?” he said. “Especially when you see how I party. It was epic. The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards look like droopy-eyed armless children.”