Bad-boy Hollywood star Charlie Sheen spent most of Christmas Day behind bars after his wife accused him of choking and shoving her, according to cops and published reports.
But he was freed on bail after Brooke Mueller recanted her story, admitting she was drunk when she made her call for help, TMZ said.
Cops gave both of them blood alcohol tests and she registered .13 to Charlie’s .04, according to the Web site.
The “Two and a Half Men” star was slapped with felony assault and menacing charges in Aspen, Colo., after an 8:34 a.m. call for help brought police to a rented home in the tony ski town where he was planning to spend the holidays, police told The Post.
Sheen allegedly got angry and pushed and choked Mueller, who had been in Aspen for three months while the couple was going through serious marital woes, Radar Online reported.
Sheen’s spokesman, Stan Rosenfield, wouldn’t discuss details of the charges, saying only: “Do not be misled by appearances, appearance and reality can be as different as night and day.”
Sheen, 44, was released last night on $8,500 bond after speaking with a judge who set conditions of release.
The fight broke out soon after Sheen arrived in Aspen to spend Christmas with Mueller, Radar said, adding she called cops after he pushed her.
No one requested medical treatment.
The couple married in May 2008, and have twin sons born this past March.
Sheen went through a bitter divorce in 2006 from actress Denise Richards, who accused him of a laundry list of misdeeds, including assaulting her.
Sheen had shed his bad-boy image in recent years to become TV’s highest-paid comedy star in 2006 for his family-friendly “Two and a Half Men.”
Additional reporting
by David K. Li