JUST ANOTHER DAY: Charlie Sheen responds to his firing in typically understated fashion yesterday — waving a machete from a Beverly Hills rooftop and aiming his pet lizard at the camera. (SHAN/GSI Media)
JUST ANOTHER DAY: Charlie Sheen responds to his firing in typically understated fashion yesterday — waving a machete from a Beverly Hills rooftop and aiming his pet lizard at the camera. (WireImage)
Sorry, Charlie — you’re fired!
Train-wreck TV star Charlie Sheen was axed by Warner Bros. yesterday after weeks of bizarre behavior, including cocaine and booze benders.
“After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on ‘Two and a Half Men’ effective immediately,” studio officials said in a statement.
In a blistering, 11-page letter sent to Sheen’s lawyer, the studio cited the actor’s “moral turpitude” as the reason for giving him the boot — and pulled no punches in detailing it.
“Your client has been engaged in dangerously self-destructive conduct and appears to be very ill,” reads the stinging letter sent to Sheen lawyer Marty Singer.
“[Sheen’s] declining condition undermined the production in numerous and significant ways. Now, the entire world knows Mr. Sheen’s condition from his alarming outbursts over just the last few weeks.”
Sheen — dug in at his Beverly Hills mansion, which he calls “Sober Valley Lodge” — reacted to the news with his typical blabbering bravado, ripping the studio, show creator Chuck Lorre and even the shirts he had to wear on the sitcom.
“This is very good news,” Sheen scoffed in texts to TMZ.com.
“They continue to be in breach, like so many whales. It is a big day of gladness at the Sober Valley Lodge because now I can take all of their bazillions, never have to look at whatshisc- -k again, and I never have to put on those silly shirts for as long as this warlock exists in the terrestrial dimension.”
He later climbed to the top of a Beverly Hills office building brandishing a machete.
Asked what he was going to do next, he shouted to reporters below: “I ain’t going to go to f— Disneyland,” TMZ said.
Back on the ground, he cried “free at last, free at last.” when asked about his new unemployed status.
Sheen’s lawyer lost no time in going on the offensive, promising to sue. “They have no basis to suspend or terminate Charlie Sheen,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
The actor — who pulled in $1.8 million an episode — griped that he learned about his firing via a text message.
“Here’s another thing — these guys are such yellow cockroaches that they didn’t even have the decency to call me,” he told “Access Hollywood.”
“I put 5 bill[ion] in their cheap suit pockets and another half a bil’ in what’s-his-cheese’s pockets, and this is the f – -king respect I get? It’s just deplorable, and they should be ashamed of themselves!”
A studio source said it was the “totality” of Sheen’s epic media meltdown — including his “poisonous” public comments blasting Lorre, Warner Bros. officials and CBS boss Les Moonves — that finally led to the decision.
The studio had already canceled production on Sheen’s hit comedy for the rest of the season.
The actor maintained that he had cured himself of his addiction and that he has been ready to work for weeks.
But in its letter to Singer, Warner Bros. said Sheen, 45, would turn up at the set for “Two and Half Men” so weak from his benders that he asked to deliver his lines while leaning on furniture.
After production was halted, Sheen vowed to sue the studio, network and Lorre for $320 million for breach of contract and “mental anguish.”
Singer tried to ratchet up the pressure on Warner Bros. last week by demanding that Sheen be paid for the episodes of the sitcom that were canceled.