Overview

• Sheen told People he lacked Jon Cryer’s current phone number and asked him to direct-message his new contact to reconnect.
• Cryer appears in aka Charlie Sheen and, in remarks Sheen called honest and compassionate, reflects on the toll of Sheen’s past behavior.
• Sheen said Cryer’s suggestion that insecurity fed his substance abuse was “dead on,” crediting the insight with prompting deeper self-reflection.
• He reiterated regret over the 2011 collapse of Two and a Half Men after his addiction led to a production halt and his firing from the series.
• Sheen says he has been sober for eight years; his memoir The Book of Sheen is out Sept. 9, with the two-part Netflix documentary debuting Sept. 10, and Cryer has not publicly confirmed any response.