CBS announced today that one of its top shows, “Two and a Half Men,” is on hiatus as the series’ star, actor Charlie Sheen, entered rehab, one day after he was hospitalized following an allegedly drug-fueled bender with porn stars at his LA home, TMZ reported.
Sheen, 45, “voluntarily entered an undisclosed rehabilitation center” on Friday, his publicist said in a statement.
“He is most grateful to all who have expressed their concern,” the statement added.
“Due to Charlie Sheen’s decision to enter a rehabilitation center, CBS, Warner Bros. Television and executive producer Chuck Lorre are placing ‘Two and a Half Men’ on production hiatus,” according to a statement from CBS, Warner Bros. Television and executive producer Chuck Lorre.
“We are profoundly concerned for his health and well-being, and support his decision,” the statement added.
Sheen, in a text message to Radar Online’s senior executive editor Dylan Howard, spoke for the first time since he was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital.
“I’m fine,” he said. “People don’t seem to get it…Guy can’t have a great time and do his job also?”
The “Two and a Half Men” actor was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital Thursday morning suffering severe abdominal discomfort, reportedly from a hiatal hernia in his stomach.
He was allegedly partying with a bevy of women and consuming large quanities of alcohol and cocaine before he developed the stomach pains, according to various reports.
Kacey Jordan — a XXX star who partied with Sheen before he ended up at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles — told TMZ.com that the actor’s home was one big drinking, drug and porn palace.
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“He was f—-en wasted out of his mind,” she said.
Jordan, 22, said at one point that she challenged Sheen to a drinking contest.
“I said, I can beat you at drinking,’ and he said, ‘Bulls–t,'” she recalled.
Jordan said that’s when Sheen grabbed a bottle of vodka out of her hand and chugged it “in like three seconds.”
“Don’t ever test me again,” he warned, according to Jordan.
A third woman partying at actor Charlie Sheen’s soiree was identified as adult film star Gigi Rivera, Radar Online reported Friday. The 19-year-old brunette beauty has already starred in 50-60 adult films in her one year career, according to her website.
Sheen was released from the Cedars-Sinai Hospital late Thursday night.
With Newscore