Once upon a time, a Charlie Sheen meltdown could control a whole news cycle: He’d freak out, he’d do a tell-all interview even more chaotic than whatever freak-out he’d had, there’d be lawsuits, and his father, Martin Sheen, would quietly try to help his son maintain dignity in the face of endless press baiting and hounding. While this happened several times throughout Charlie’s career, it occurred most recently and notably in the late 2000s and early 2010s, when his severe drug addiction and erratic behavior led to his being fired from Two and a Half Men and embarking on his nationwide “ My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option ” tour.
The Charlie of those decades is not the Sheen we see front and center in Andrew Renzi’s two-part Netflix documentary, aka Charlie Sheen