POP CULTURE

Charlie Sheen Really Was ‘Winning’ as His Life Fell Apart

10 years ago, the actor set the Internet on fire

Deante L. Young
4 min readMar 2, 2021

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“Charlie Sheen” by Nathan Congleton is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Introduction

Constant sex with two hot-ass porn stars, an unlimited supply of drugs and alcohol, and a weekly income of $1.8 million dollars sounds like a damn fairy tale. For Charlie Sheen, that shit was his actual reality!

10 years ago this week, he called it, “winning,” and I can’t argue with that AT ALL.

Sheen Shocks The World

“I was banging seven-gram rocks and finishing ‘em because that’s how I roll. I have one gear — GO!” — Charlie Sheen, 2011

That was just one of several shockingly honest claims made by Sheen during an interview with The Today Show in February 2011. He also declared that he had “tiger blood and Adonis DNA.”

Winning!

But these weren’t simply the ramblings of a weirdo. He was pissed at CBS for halting production on Two and a Half Men, the hugely successful sitcom that he’d starred in for eight seasons. At that point in 2011, he was the highest-paid actor on television, which earned him the aforementioned $1.8 million…

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Deante L. Young
Deante L. Young

Written by Deante L. Young

I ghostwrite LI and X content for CEOs to capitalize on their thought leadership and build their personal brand | 12 + years working with business executives |

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