Charlie Sheen's 2011 firing from Two and a Half Men
Event in TV & Film
Charlie Sheen's 2011 firing from Two and a Half Men has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Chuck LorreProducer of The Big Bang Theory and other sitcoms
Lorre says he had no training or skills to handle Sheen's crisis and the viral fallout after Sheen left the show.
“what training did I have as a bar mitzvah guitarist to deal with this? The answer is none”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Part Two: Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men Creator on Signing a Billion-Year Scientology Contract, Why Success Didn’t Cure His Alcoholism, and Surviving the Public Battle with Charlie Sheen | Chuck Lorre (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 12:38
Lorre says he was in deliberate denial as Two and a Half Men began to unravel around its eighth year.
“I was in denial. I was in a lot of denial. I was trying to pretend everything was okay”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Part Two: Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men Creator on Signing a Billion-Year Scientology Contract, Why Success Didn’t Cure His Alcoholism, and Surviving the Public Battle with Charlie Sheen | Chuck Lorre (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 11:10
Mayim BialikActress, neuroscientist and host of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Bialik argues that early social media magnified Sheen's insults toward Lorre in a way that would seem routine today.
“Social media took this Charlie Sheen thing and ran with it in a way that, like, the deepest insults, right, that he hurled were magnified”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Part Two: Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men Creator on Signing a Billion-Year Scientology Contract, Why Success Didn’t Cure His Alcoholism, and Surviving the Public Battle with Charlie Sheen | Chuck Lorre (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 46:00
Jonathan CohenExecutive producer and co-host of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, writer and energy worker
Cohen argues that no star of America's top-rated show had previously been removed while the show continued.
“No star at that level had been removed from a show, and the show continued”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Part Two: Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men Creator on Signing a Billion-Year Scientology Contract, Why Success Didn’t Cure His Alcoholism, and Surviving the Public Battle with Charlie Sheen | Chuck Lorre (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 39:50
Podcasts
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 1 episode
Episodes
Part Two: Big Bang Theory & Two and a Half Men Creator on Signing a Billion-Year Scientology Contract, Why Success Didn’t Cure His Alcoholism, and Surviving the Public Battle with Charlie Sheen | Chuck LorreMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 21, 2026 · 46 min
Chuck Lorre tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen about getting sober, the Charlie Sheen crisis on Two and a Half Men, sitcom craft, and Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.