TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Actor Charlie Sheen visited tornado-hit Alabama Monday and pledged to help raise money for recovery efforts, WBRC-TV reported.
One of the deadliest storm systems in decades battered the South last week with flash floods and dozens of tornadoes killing hundreds and injuring thousands. Alabama was hardest hit, with 250 fatalities.
The former “Two and a Half Men” star announced Sunday night on Twitter that he was heading to Alabama.
He arrived in Tuscaloosa Monday morning where he spoke to people at a high school serving as an aid center for evacuees, then met with Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox as well as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers, police officers and Alabama National Guardsmen.
Sheen said he would ask his Twitter followers to donate to relief efforts and proposed a celebrity softball game for charity.
Touring the devastation in Tuscaloosa, he called the damage “unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”
He said he was “hopeful” that he could do whatever he could “to provide some compassion.”
Sheen was fired from “Two and a Half Men” in March after engaging in a public feud with show creator Chuck Lorre over what producers called Sheen’s “highly publicized self-implosion, fueled in substantial part by substance abuse.”
He launched an 18-city live tour, entitled “My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option,” which ends Tuesday in Seattle.