He loves porn stars at night — and the smell of napalm in the morning.
Wild man Charlie Sheen is so obsessed with his father’s epic war film “Apocalypse Now,” that he had a slogan from the movie tattooed on his chest last week.
Sheen showed off the new ink — block letters reading, “Death from above,” with blood dripping onto an apple — and explained the chest embellishment as a metaphor for his own life.
“It’s the banner from the death card that Kilgore [the Robert Duvall character] is throwing on his victims,” he said on Alex Jones’ radio show. “But also falling from it is the apple from [poet Shel Silverstein’s] ‘The Giving Tree.’ There’s my life. Deal with it.”
Sheen said he got the tattoo while watching the classic 1979 Vietnam War flick, starring Martin Sheen, in his private theater.
In his 20-minute radio rant, Sheen also compared himself to the characters in the movie.
“I’m not just my dad,” he said. “I’m putting up the river to kill another part of me, which is Kurtz. I’m every character in between, save for that little weirdo with his guts strapped in, begging for water. That’s not me. But there are parts of me that are Dennis Hopper.
“You have the right to kill me, but you do not have the right to judge me,” he said, quoting Col. Kurtz, the Marlon Brando character. “Boom. That’s the whole movie. That’s life.”
Three days after CBS execs pulled the plug on the remainder of the season of “Two and a Half Men,” Sheen was partying in the Bahamas, accompanied by porn star Bree Olson and his girlfriend, Natalie Kenly.
In an interview with ABC News’ “20/20” set to air Tuesday night, Sheen scoffed at the notion it was anti-Semitic to call his show’s creator, Chuck Lorre, by his birth name, Chaim Levine.
“So you’re telling me, anytime someone calls me Carlos Estevez, I can claim they are anti-Latino?” asked the actor, referring to his original name. He also insisted that he is “100 percent” clean.
Even while a “Major League 3” producer said last week that he may not hire Sheen unless he cleans up his act, supporters said his behavior won’t turn him into box-office coal, à la Mel Gibson and Lindsay Lohan.
“Charlie’s a rebel,” Oscar winner David Ward, who directed the actor in “Major League,” told The Post. “Maybe he hasn’t seemed as likeable as he usually is, but it’s his persona and people know in their hearts that he’s not a mean guy.”
Ward said the star’s stamina is the stuff of legend.
“He has a high tolerance [for drugs and boozing],” Ward said. “I’m concerned any time I feel like he’s drinking too much or doing drugs, but if there’s anyone who can handle it, it’s him.
“I remember one day when he threw 138 pitches,” Ward said. “That’s more than a Major League pitcher throws.
When Ward cast him in “Major League,” he thought Sheen was “one of those young, brooding actors in the James Dean tradition. [But] he wasn’t like that at all. He’s just a guy who likes to have fun and enjoy himself.”
With Michael Blaustein