Charlie Sheen Says He Still Hasn’t Spoken to Jon Cryer Since His Documentary Came Out

At an event supporting the 2025 documentary ‘aka Charlie Sheen,’ the actor reflected on his relationship with his former ‘Two and a Half Men’ costar

Charlie Sheen says he still hasn’t caught up with his old pal and Two and a Half Men costar Jon Cryer since the release of the documentary aka Charlie Sheen, in which they both opened up about the way Sheen derailed the success of their sitcom in 2011.

“Every time this comes up, I say I’m going to [reach out to him] and I never do,” Sheen told PEOPLE at a For Your Consideration event for aka Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles on April 22. “I don’t like to bother people. But I think Jon would be open to that,” he says, adding, “Jon’s a lovely man and a very talented guy.”

During the panel portion of the event, Sheen made a crack about Cryer not being at the event despite being a willing participant in the documentary.

“I don’t know if I was surprised” by anything that Cryer said in the documentary, Sheen said when asked onstage. Then, Sheen said playfully, “Jon’s not here tonight, is he? No, he’s a little grudgy like a decade and a half later. I’m like, ‘Dude, what the f—? I got over it. What are we doing, Jon?’ “

“No, but it was very sweet, very cool that everybody showed up like they did, because they could have easily said, ‘Go f— yourself. I’m not interested. I lived it. I don’t need to talk about it again.’ And I would have been, ‘OK, that’s fine.’ But they didn’t, and they stepped up,” said Sheen.

Sheen also told PEOPLE what it was like to have his life story play out in both his memoir The Book of Sheen and aka Charlie Sheen, both of which came out in the same week in September 2025.

“Relieved,” he said. “Relieved. It’s documented, and I think told beautifully, visually and, hopefully, decently. And there’s stuff in the book that’s not in the doc and vice versa, because there are things I couldn’t capture with the written word that [director Andrew Renzi] did visually, because some things you just have to see to feel it. And there were some stories I couldn’t tell well enough on camera that I knew I could tell through my pen.”

Sheen also talked about his first meeting with Renzi, and being unsure about participating in the film at first.

“In the first meeting, I said, ‘Why are you so interested?'” he says. “And he said, ‘Because you have a story that is unlike anyone who’s ever just in the business, but also outside of it.’ And then he went through listing stuff, and I’m like, alright, OK. Because I don’t walk around thinking about my accolades or how much life I’ve lived.”

Renzi adds, “There’s only one Charlie Sheen … and there’s just not many people that would have had the life that he had that would want to talk about it — or are alive to talk about it.”

Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, added that he wouldn’t have done either if he were still battling with alcohol or drugs. He says, “I think it always sort of had a happy ending attached to it, regardless of where the story went.”

Via: People