Ok, so who has had their fill of celebrity train wrecks? Raise your hands! First Paris, then Brittany and Lindsay. Now the latest to get all of this ridiculous attention.....Charlie Sheen.
I really dont understand why this is such a surprise because he has been a mess for a while. I guess the media didn't find him to be enough of mess until he was making 1.2 million per episode on his hit show "Two and a half men." Charlie has quite a record which includes: 1990-shooting his then girlfriend Kelly Preston in her apartment. In 1995 he was in court for being a "customer" of Madame Heidi Fleiss.... 1998, he overdosed on cocaine. His dad, Martin Sheen gave a tearful report at the Los Robles Medical Center. He said "This is not an easy moment in our lives, but it's a necessary one. Our hope is that he (Charlie) will accept recovery and be fine."
Well... Charlie didn't recover. Now we hear more reports about antics with hookers, hotels, drugs and booze. He never got the help and things got worse. While his show was skyrocketing to number one (paying him one of the highest salaries on any TV actor) Charlie was spiraling out of control and eventually jeopardizing the production of the show. We all know the end of this story....Charlie bad mouths his boss Chuck Lorre....and eventually he is fired from the show. Is it just me or have we seen this one before??? McKenzie Phillips and her firing from the 70's sitcom "One day at a time." The difference: McKenzie saw her disease (and yes folks, Charlie HAS a disease) and got treatment. She didn't fix it all at once, but she is finally clean and sober.
I was just on facebook and a friend posted a link to Dr Drew (Celebrity Rehab) Pinsky's interview on CNN. He said that Charlie suffered from something called "Hypo-mania." I had never heard of this, so I went to counsellingresource.com. "Hyper-mania" is:
A. A distinct period of persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting throughout at least 4 days, that is clearly different from the usual non-depressed mood.
B. During the period of mood disturbance, three (or more) of the following symptoms have persisted (four if the mood is only irritable) and have been present to a significant degree:
- inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
- decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep)
- more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
- flight of ideas, or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
- distractibility (i.e., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli)
- increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation
- excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)
Ok, so maybe this does sound like Charlie, but I don't think so. Charlie, to me, sounds like you basic person doing massive amounts of drugs and drinking lots of alcohol. I grew up with an uncle who acted this erratic when he was: Stoned or Drunk. We couldn't stop him no matter what our family did. He died at 52 from a massive coronary.....his heart was 3 times bigger than it should've been....from too many years of drugs and alcohol. Nice huh?
Dr. Drew also mentioned how he had a barrage of "fans" that we cheering him on (you can see them in his videos on his blog.) Oh course those people are there. They are there for the free drugs and booze...plus maybe they are hoping to ride on the "Sheen coattails of fame." It is really sad if that is what they are doing. I can tell you one thing... if Charlie continues down this road, eventually he WILL run out of money and once he does......those people will be gone.
I feel really bad for Charlie. He is not to be celebrated. TV is doing him NO favors by interviewing him....this just fuels him into thinking that all of this air time is another way he is "winning." We all know the media....today's "big news" is tomorrows "old story." They will tire of him, something new will grab the media's attention and Charlie will be forgotten.
Will he then be winning????
Charlie....you need help. All I hear when I listen to you is "me, me , me." and "everyone else is wrong." Those are true signs of an addict. You chose drugs and booze over your family, your co-workers and you fans. What about them? The reason you are a star is BECAUSE of fans, family....and people like Chuck Lorre, who gave you more chances to get it right.
YOU chose to mess it up and chose the addiction over life.
