Former “Two and a Half Men” star Angus T. Jones — who left the show almost a year ago — is back to speaking out against the hit CBS sitcom.
The actor — who played Jake Harper for nearly 10 years — says the show “was making light of topics in our world that are really problems for a lot of people. And I was a paid hypocrite because I wasn’t OK with it but I was still doing it.”
Jones, 20, made the comments in an interview posted Sunday with TV station KHOU in Houston, where he was speaking at the Seventh-Day Adventist church World Harvest Outreach.
It wasn’t the first time he has taken swings at the show that reportedly made him $350,000 an episode at the time of his exit — making him the highest-paid child star in TV history.
In 2012, in a ministry video posted on YouTube, he blasted the often-raunchy “Two and a Half Men” as “filth” and urged fans to stop watching it.
In the KHOU interview, a now-bearded Jones says he feels apologetic for insulting the “baby” of creator Chuck Lorre, but “otherwise I don’t regret any of what I said.”
And while he is currently focused on the church and his life as a college student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he says he hasn’t completely ruled out a return to acting.
“There’s a few different productions that do kind of Bible-based stories. Stuff like that,” Jones said.