The fact that Charlie Sheen now has some kind of sitcom coming up on FX, despite all the truly insane things he said and did less than a year ago, is a testament to the power of the almighty dollar. I was just going over our archives on this guy, and if someone would have told me that any celebrity would have gone so spectacularly off the rails and been so public about it, I wouldn’t have believed it. Not only did he rant and rave at everyone, he gave countless interviews, he videotaped himself ranting, he made it into a live tour, and he capitalized on his memes with t-shirts and Twitter endorsements. It was kind of mind blowing, but it definitely got old and then he went away for a while. In the interim he landed this sitcom gig based on the Anger Management movie, and now he’s back. Well Charlie wants us all to know that he’s totally sane now that he’s back on TV and that he was just going through something, which he calls “episode”:

“I’m not crazy any more. That was an episode,” Sheen says, laughing, as he spoke with reporters at Sunday night’s Fox Network Television Critics Association party in Pasadena, Calif.

“I think I’m a different person than I was yesterday. Everything is a lot more mellow and focused and much more rooted in reality.”

Sheen, 46, couldn’t be more Zen about his new FX show, Anger Management, in which he will star and produce. He reports that casting is underway and that they will shoot 10 episodes in six weeks.

“I’ve been at this 30 years. It’s nice to be in a situation where the people I’m working with are excited about my input. That wasn’t the case for a long time,” Sheen says.

Of late, Sheen says instead of sounding off on Twitter, “I’ve been spending a lot of time with the kids, a lot of time with the family and I’m getting back into work mode,” adding that he is goddess-free these days. “I’m a single guy hanging out with my children.”

Asked if he has been in contact with his former Two and a Half Men costar Jon Cryer, or producer Chuck Lorre, Sheen says, “Jon and I text. Chuck, no, but at some point we are going to have to get some closure there.”

His opinion of his TV character’s funeral, which opened the sitcom’s new season last September, now that it stars Ashton Kutcher? “It was a little bizarre to watch your own funeral. It was a little mean-spirited. But it’s dead and buried now, right?”

While Sheen says it’s “premature” to name the celebrities who would like to make cameo appearances on his new show, he says “everybody” wants to take part.

[From People]

Maybe he’s no longer on a manic drug-induced high, but I bet it will be just a matter of time before he’s back on the sauce, if he isn’t already and is just maintaining. He claimed to have been sober through the power of his mind and not through any program that he refused to attend. He probably thinks he can still handle it without a problem. The last time I saw him interviewed, with his ex Brooke Mueller on ET, he was wasted but still able to speak clearly. You couldn’t say as much for Brooke since she was mumbling. So where does the drug abuse end and the crazy begin for Charlie, or is it just a big blur at this point? Does “no longer crazy” just mean he’s trying to stay sober during working hours?

Charlie is shown with his dad, Martin, on 9-23-11. Credit: PRphotos. He’s also shown at his roast on 9-10-11. Creddit: WENN

I’ve said up until now that I find Mariah Yeater’s story that Justin Bieber is the father of her baby believable. This was based on the allegations in the press, the assertions of her lawyers, and the first half of her interview with The Insider, which aired Monday. On Monday’s interview, Yeater detailed her alleged hookup with Bieber, and claimed she had additional evidence that would come out at trial. She was crying and she appeared genuinely nervous and upset. However truth expert Eyes for Lies analyzed Yeater’s story and behavior in that interview and came to the conclusion that she’s not telling the truth. One of the “tells,” according to Eyes, was the lack of detail in Yeater’s story, the fact that she acted uncertain, and her inappropriate affect. What’s more is that in the second half of the interview, aired yesterday (a clip of which is available above), Yeater was even more hesitant and was searching for answers to what should be simple questions if her story is true.

Eyes pointed out that Yeater never stated in that first interview that she tried to contact Bieber’s people first. When she was asked directly about this, (at :50 in the video above) she was very cagey. She was asked “When you tried to contact Justin’s people, what was their reaction?”

She scrunched up her face and said “No contact. I didn’t. Nothing. I heard nothing.”

She didn’t what? If someone asked you that question, and you had tried and tried to tell someone that you had their baby, wouldn’t you say something like “They didn’t get back to me and we sent them three letters and called them over ten times?” Like that’s something you would definitely know and be frustrated about.

Then she was asked “When you left the Staples center, what did you say to your mom? What did you tell her?” Yeater waited a few seconds before saying “I told her everything.” Well, where was her mom when she was screwing Justin Bieber in the bathroom? That’s a detail she left out of her story.

When she was asked what her mom thought about this story, she couldn’t even give an answer.

At about 1:30 into the video, she was asked about a paternity suit she filed against her ex boyfriend, John Terranova, last year. I don’t think that the paternity suit detail is accurate per se, I just think that John’s grandmother said Yeater accused John of being the father. We also know Yeater was arrested after confronting Terranova over paternity and allegedly slapping him. Instead of denying that story, Yeater just said “no comment” at first and later “OK,” like “OK,” I did it and I can’t deny it. It was very strange. Then she covered her face with her hand.

When she was asked about what other things might be dug up about her past during the course of this lawsuit, she gave a rambling and weak response. “No one’s past should matter on a future situation or… anything of that matter. I’ve seen, I’ve heard other celebrities’ problem, whatever. It scares me because I’ve seen nothing yet. People can be ruthless.”

Given Bieber’s glib response to this, I initially thought that he was just blowing this woman off. Now that I’ve seen her full interview, she seems like a whack job who is making this story up. We’ll see, though. If she is lying, I hope Bieber’s people sue her for every dime she made doing interviews and selling baby photos.

Oh and props to The Insider people for editing this interview and releasing it in two parts to make her seem credible at first.

Last week, Brandi Glanville gave an exclusive interview to In Touch Weekly. Magically, this week, LeAnn Rimes gave an exclusive interview to Star Magazine, the trashiest of the trashy tabloids, IMO. Single White Female-ing, or is it just to “promote her album”? Who can say at this point? It doesn’t really matter, because all LeAnn talks about is her body and how much she loves her bony, emaciated frame. Here are some highlights:

LeAnn on her body: “I understand the public is used to seeing me with baby fat, but you have got to understand that I’m not a baby anymore… everyone has seen my every five-or10-pound weight loss or gain since I was 13. Now I’ve grown into a woman, and my body has changed.”

Her divorce did affect her weight: “When I went through a divorce and didn’t want to get out of bed for almost a year and a half, I gained 10 lbs.”

Since marrying Eddie: “I’m the happiest I’ve been. I’m healthy and taking great care of my body again.”

Her new workout: “It’s made my body] longer, leaner and less bulky.” She now exercises three or four times a week by doing Pilates, dancing or circuit training with light weights. “I also love boxing to get rid of stress and tone my entire body… but lately, I mainly work out when I can. Mostly that’s consisted of walking miles through airports and performing high-energy 90-minute shows every night while on tour!”

Her diet: “I start off my day with [nutritionist Kimberly Snyder’s] smoothies, and then I’m mostly vegetarian until dinner, when I eat fish, chicken or steak with salad and veggies. There’s nothing I deprive myself of, not even sugar. I eat everything I want in moderation.”

She mentions pregnancy: “My body will continually change with stress, contentment or whether I’m busy or not. Hopefully also one day when I’m pregnant!”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

My favorite part is where she completely rewrites her own famewhoring, Eddie-stalking history – “When I went through a divorce and didn’t want to get out of bed for almost a year and a half, I gained 10 lbs.” A year and a half? I’m assuming she means the year and a half that passed right after everyone found out that she was screwing Eddie? And after we found out, she started calling the paps on herself constantly while she was running errands and flaunting her body and stalking Eddie incessantly? But poor LeAnn, she didn’t want to get out of bed! Poor baby. NO! SHE’S NOT A BABY ANYMORE.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

People Magazine did a photo shoot with Kirstie Alley in Italy – you can see one of the photos here, at People. Kirstie looks great in the shot, but… you can totally see how she’s cinched within an inch of her life AND that the photos are going to be using the “motherlode” function on Photoshop. It’s no big deal in and of itself – Kristie has every right to be proud of her weight loss, and she has every right to want to be photographed beautifully. The problem is with People Mag’s interview. When Kirstie speaks, delusion comes out. It was just last week that Kirstie told Entertainment Tonight that she lost “100 pounds” as she went from a size eight to a size 4. Tim Gunn even stepped up and tried to tell people that Kirstie is just delusional about vanity sizing, and now, in this new interview, Kristie continues the deceptions:

Rock that body, Kirstie! When Kirstie Alley cleared the 100 lb. weight-loss hurdle this summer, it was time for a big, fat celebration.

“When I hit that mark, I went, ‘That’s it!’ ” Alley tells PEOPLE during her stay in a villa outside Florence, Italy. “I have more energy than I’ve ever had in my whole life.”

While Alley’s weight has famously fluctuated in recent years, the actress, now 60, hit a wall two years ago.

“My body had gotten really weak,” says Alley, whose weight at that time hovered around 230 lbs. “There was nothing positive about being fat.”

By dancing daily after her dazzling appearance on Dancing with the Stars, where she finished second, changing to an organic diet and following Organic Liaison, her own weight-loss program, she’s turned her life around.

“I feel back to normal,” says Alley, now a proud size 6. “I have my game again.”

And she’s ready for her next challenge: “What I’m looking for is to be madly, deeply in love,” says Alley, who will also star in the upcoming ABC pilot, The Manzanis.

“For the first time in my life, I know exactly what I want in a man,” she says. “I want someone who has my back, who is courageous and brave.”

[From People]

I’ll say it again: Kirstie has every right to be proud of herself and her weight loss, and I think it’s great that she’s doing the work to keep the weight off. None of that is the issue. The issue is that Kirstie is made of lies. Size 4, size 6, 230 pounds with a 100 pound weight loss, putting her at a current 130 pounds?!? Who believes these claims? NO ONE. But who will tell Kirstie to shut it? NO ONE. Is it because she’s insane? Or is it because it’s just easier for people to humor her?

Here’s another question – I would have no problem believing that Kristie lost a great deal of weight, but do you get the feeling that Kirstie was already so delusional about her size, and has been lying about it for years and years, so that now when she could step up and be honest about it, it doesn’t feel the same? Like, in Kristie’s mind, she was 200+ pounds and a stretchy size 10 (if that, in her mind), and she obviously lost 100 pounds and now she’s a size 4, only somewhere in the dark recesses of her conscience, she knows she’s been lying the whole time, and she can’t even be proud of herself.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

In the new issue of Interview, which is “The Fashion Issue”, our favorite grumpy old bastard Karl Lagerfeld interviews Carine Roitfeld, the former editor-in-chief of Vogue France and one of the leading style-makers of the past two decades. I never realized that Karl and Carine are tight, but they are. They’re also hilarious together, unintentionally so. Like, Karl will say something and Carine will contradict part of it, and Karl will come back at her with something even crazier and then Carine just changes the subject. It’s a great dynamic. I can’t even begin to excerpt all of the wonderful hilarity that ensues throughout this five-page opus of CRAZY, so you should totally read the whole thing here. Here are some of my favorite parts:

Lagerfeld on how Helmut Newton was a fast worker: “He never tried too hard, right? The Germans have a saying, ‘Things are spicier if they’re short.’”

On Roitfeld’s work as a stylist, and photographing nudes:
LAGERFELD: You don’t fall into the trap that a lot of stylists have fallen into of doing everything. You think about the woman first. You let the woman come out.
ROITFELD: Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it’s never about the clothing.
LAGERFELD: Although for a stylist, doing a nude is even more difficult.
ROITFELD: Mario [Testino] did a lot of nudes. Every morning when we worked together, he had boys coming over and he would take naked pictures of them. I learned a lot because there’s no artifice and it’s all a question of position, of looks, of attitude, the way to position your legs, position your knees . . . It gives you something.
LAGERFELD: There’s a big difference between photographing naked boys and naked girls.
ROITFELD: I was too shy, at first, to come close to these naked guys. I would stand a little ways away from them. With girls it’s much easier.
LAGERFELD: I think it’s easier because naked men are more awkward.
ROITFELD: Yes and then there is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier, wouldn’t it? Let’s do a huge naked photo shoot!
LAGERFELD: Oui.

Lagerfeld on Carine’s time at French Vogue: “I think freedom is your biggest luxury. You were literally jailed before… I think you’re more like a bird that can’t be put in a cage. I don’t want to compare myself to you, but it’s like at Chanel, I can do what I want, when I want, where I want. And that’s because I am worth more when I’m free. I think it’s the same thing for you.”

They talk about being Virgos, and having children – Carine has two kids:
LAGERFELD: What I think is particularly accomplished with you is that you always have a vision of fashion and a fashionable woman, but you also have a very successful life as a family woman. You have beautiful, intelligent children and they give you stability and credibility in the eyes of others.
ROITFELD: It’s because I’m a Virgo. Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children—being there for them.
LAGERFELD: Yes, no one can say that you don’t take care of them. You’re also lucky because they are very beautiful. It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
ROITFELD: A moment ago, you said some flaws are necessary in beauty. They do have a temper sometimes. But they are very good children.
LAGERFELD: The care you take in your children gives a balance to your life. I think it accentuates your talent.
ROITFELD: Well, otherwise you’re too far removed from reality. You’re in your car, you’re in your jet—you don’t have a grip on reality. We can lose touch with reality quite easily.
LAGERFELD: I know some stylists who are like that and it’s sad. If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

More on how awesome and crazy it is to be a Virgo:
LAGERFELD: I think you are quite modest.
ROITFELD: People might think I’m very hard, what with my black makeup, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn’t always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don’t have anymore. I’m inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don’t think daily life is always great. It protects me. I don’t know if it’s my sign, but Virgos are very faithful. I’m a faithful friend. I’m a faithful lover—
LAGERFELD: I can tell you are, indeed, being a Virgo myself.
ROITFELD: We’re a faithful lot. Faithful in many ways.
LAGERFELD: Some people don’t deserve our faithfulness.
ROITFELD: Some don’t, but once we learn that, I can tell you that we also have a very good memory. I have a memory like an elephant. I don’t forget anything.
LAGERFELD: Me neither.
ROITFELD: And revenge! I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn’t exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography. I don’t have prejudices. I’m against taboos. But of course there are some things I’ll never touch—because as a mom, there are things one doesn’t want their children to be around. I think it’s very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia . . . All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

Lagerfeld on his mother: “I wasn’t allowed to hold my mother’s arm to cross the street. You know why? Because I squeezed her hard and it bruised her arm.”

On the internet and technology:
LAGERFELD: Do you surf the internet?
ROITFELD: No.
LAGERFELD: Me neither. Never. Besides, I don’t even want to have things associated with my name on the internet—it’s very dangerous.
ROITFELD: Is there a fake Karl Lagerfeld Twitter account?
LAGERFELD: Yes.
ROITFELD: There’s one for me, too. Everything is fake.
LAGERFELD: I am not a fake . . . I hope.
ROITFELD: I don’t have a Facebook account.
LAGERFELD: I know enough people. We’re happy with the people we know, right? That’s enough for us.
ROITFELD: It’s insane. The internet is becoming more interesting, though. I think the quality of the image on iPads now is extraordinary. What if tomorrow I had to create a magazine? What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I’m not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

Lagerfeld on ivory towers: “The worst thing in the world is to create an ivory tower. Yes, it’s very bad. It’s sterile. I can’t even go in the street anymore. That bothers me.”

[From Interview Magazine]

The piece is full of all of these crazy gems, and it’s like two insane people looking at each other and acknowledging that they don’t really speak the same made-up language. And OF COURSE they’re both Virgos. I swear, celebrity Virgos give the rest of us a bad name. I’m a Virgo, and I’m not even half as crazy as Karl, Carine, Beyonce, Hugh Grant or LeAnn Rimes, all Virgos. Although… between all of us, we barely make up one truly sane person. My favorite part is how the Virgo conversation turns on a dime and all of a sudden Karl and Carine are talking about revenge and how we never forget a slight. God, that’s so true.

Also, Karl‘s quotes on children – “You’re also lucky because they are very beautiful. It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.” And, “If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.” WTF?!? Oh, Karl.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

As we talked about yesterday, LeAnn is on another needy, crazy jag where she’s tweeting bikini photos of herself and making some big fuss about how she’s so healthy and she doesn’t know why people continue to harp about how skinny she is and she’s eating so much and she’s America’s Sweetheart and everybody is just yelling at her all the time and it’s NOT HER FAULT. So, what to do? First, I would suggest that LeAnn and her doctors sit down and figure out the right medication and dosage and everything, because the neverending cycle of manufactured drama is making my eye twitch, and none of it healthy.

Anyway, LeAnn tweeted the two black and white bikini photos on Sunday with the comments “CURVES… They are there LOL” and “Beach Bum…” Barf on that, but beyond her bones, how weird is it that LeAnn hired a professional photographer to take artsy bikini photos, just so she can post them on Twitter? These are totally professional, hi-res images – which just proves A) LeAnn has too much time on her hands that she’s organizing this kind of dumbass photo shoot FOR TWITTER and B) Bitch needs a prescription. Note: the photo of LeAnn and Eddie is from Saturday. Because they’re so in love.

Photos courtesy of LeAnn’s Twitter.

Octomom Nadya Suleman is going off the deep end, or I guess she’s been there for a long time and is finally splashing around. She has a new interview in In Touch weekly [via The Daily Mail] in which she sounds even more unhinged than usual, going on at length about how awful her kids are, how she wishes she never had them and how she hates her life as single mom to 14 kids. Her bank account is overdrawn and she’s of course relying on public assistance again to make ends meet. She also says she thinks of suicide and will spend hours locked in the bathroom to get away from her kids. This is not at all surprising given this woman’s storied history, but the question is – will it be enough to get social services involved?

She is the mother of fourteen children, who gave birth to the longest surviving octuplets in U.S history.

But in disturbing comments sure to alarm social services, Octomom’s Nadya Suleman has said she ‘hates’ her eight babies.

The 36-year-old single mother also calls her six older children ‘animals’.

‘I hate the babies, they disgust me,’ she told InTouch magazine. ‘My older six are animals, getting more and more out of control, because I have no time to properly discipline them.’

In a picture taking by the magazine, one child is seen eating dry-wall in her run-down home.

Suleman says that her dream of having a big family has now turned into her worst nightmare as she struggles to take care of her huge family.

‘The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet,’ she said.

The reality TV mother has even considered suicide.

‘Some days I have thought about killing myself. I cannot cope,’ she said.

In another breath, Suleman tries to insist that she still has love for her children, but says in hindsight she wishes that she never gave birth to any of them.
‘Obviously I love them – but I absolutely wish I had not had them,’ she said.

The reality TV mother is also in financial hot water, especially when it comes to her home in La Hambra, California.

Up until recently, Suleman has managed to avoid being kicked out of the property for months, even though she has been facing foreclosure since last year after failing to meet monthly payments.

But now the man who sold the property to Suleman’s father Ed Doud has recoiled and taken serious actions to get her and her children removed.

The mother says she has not got a penny to her name and cannot even effort to put food on the table.

‘My bank account is overdrawn by $300 and I have no money to pay for the children’s school, food or the mortgage.’

Suleman, who is currently on unemployed and public assistance programs, may however have found a way to boost her income.

She recently filmed an episode of a new TV celebrity dating show called Celebridate, for the cable network HDNet.

[From The Daily Mail]

This woman did this to herself through a series of calculated moves that she’s defended to any outlet that will listen to her. She doesn’t deserve our sympathy, but her poor kids do. Is she saying these awful things so that she can get rid of them? What kind of mother “hates” their babies and finds them disgusting? It’s not like she’s raising them alone, she has nannies!

Meanwhile Octomom participated in a celebrity boxing match last night in New Jersey. There’s an interview with her on Radar ahead of the boxing match. I’ll admit I only watched a few minutes of it, but she sounds completely different than she does in In Touch and basically spouts her typical b.s. psychobabble. She goes on at length about her choice to have kids, says fitness is her passion, acts like her life is fine, and claims she never wanted the fame that came along with having eight kids at once. The bitch lives in California and has 14 kids. How is she flying to New Jersey to be in a boxing tournament? She’s telling In Touch she’s suicidal but everything is fine once she does another interview. She should be committed.

Nadya is shown with her kids on 3/28/10. She’s also shown at an event on 5/31/11. Credit: Pacific Coast News

Here are some newish photos of Kirstie Alley out and about in NYC yesterday. She and Maksim did several television interviews together, and Kirstie kept this great red dress on throughout the day, showing off her much trimmer figure. As we’ve heard again and again, Kirstie literally has no clue how delusional she sounds about her size. While she has truly lost so much weight, and she looks great and so much healthier, Kirstie consistently shoots herself in the foot by claiming to be much smaller than she is in reality. First, she claimed that when she started DWTS, she was a size 12, and she quickly went down to a size 8. Then she doubled down and claimed that she was now a size four or six. This is where she’s holding, with some extra delusion and nonsensical math on the side:

Kirstie Alley could not look more amazing if she tried. She may not have won Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday, but her hard work earned her a brand new body!

“My dress is half the size it was when we started,” Kirstie admitted on the show’s finale.

Wow, what a feat!

Kirstie wore the same dress on Tuesday that she wore on the show’s first episode — but it had to be taken in 38 inches! The DWTS runner-up went from a size 12 to a “stretchy size six.”

“The great thing is, I can wear all the dresses from when I was really, really skinny,” she tells USA Today. “But I have more work to do. I need to do some weights and some yoga. And I’ll keep dancing. But only Latin dances.

The actress seems happier than ever with her fit body! “[The show has] made me alive again,” Kirstie said to Us Weekly. “It’s given me a new view of what I want to do in my life.”

[From Hollywood Life]

So… her dress was taken in 38 inches and she thinks she was a size 12 when she started and now she’s a “stretchy” size six. The “38 inches” number absolutely fascinates me. Is she just making this junk up as she goes along, or is someone feeding her this stuff and she buys it hook, line and sinker? Once again, congratulations to her and I hope she can keep it up. But methinks part of the “larger issue” with Kirstie’s yo-yo weight is that THE BITCH IS CRAZY and she’s just really bad with numbers.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

According to multiple audience members, video footage and just about every outlet that reported on it, Charlie Sheen’s first live show in Detroit for his “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour was a complete and utter bomb. Shock. The audience started booing, multiple people walked out, and Charlie was the same narcissistic ranting nutjob that we’ve come to know through his countless interviews and YouTube videos. I don’t know why we expected anything else, although I was thinking that he might have a good production team to help him channel the crazy into something watchable. At least I didn’t waste my money on that hope as so many other people did.

Surprisingly Charlie’s second show, in Chicago on Sunday night, was supposedly ok, like he hit his stride, self-corrected and was able to deliver a decent performance. He’s even said to have received a standing ovation, although reports are mixed as to how well he actually did.

Charlie Sheen, currently on his 20-city My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option tour, received a standing ovation at the Chicago Theatre on Sunday night, after bombing the night before in Detriot.

The former Two and a Half Men star, 45, made some bold changes to the format of the program after disappointed fans left the Detroit show calling for refunds, leading the the media to speculate how much longer the tour would continue.

By Sunday, Sheen had eliminated a rapper who was his opening act, his stream-of-consciousness ramblings, and various pre-taped video highlights of his career in lieu of a talk show format in which the actor discussed the “odyssey” that is his life, both personally and professionally.

A modest Sheen dubbed his Chicago show “the most epic night in Chicago f**king history.”

“It was a canny shift of the show’s tone, from epic self-aggrandizement to a more casual, at times even likable, persona,” the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Johnson wrote.

Sheen addressed his Detroit debacle during Sunday’s show, reading a letter he wrote to the Windy City citizens.

He said, “Dear f **king awesome Chicago. I am a veteran of a disturbing odyssey that had me question the very nature of my soul… I am speaking, of course, about last night in Detroit.”

Johnson wrote that “the Chicago crowd was ready to please him, too, delivering an unbidden ‘Detroit Sucks’ chant right away.”

Sheen finished his act strong in Chicagoland, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

“Following tepid applause and a scattered standing ovation, lots of patrons wasted no time filing out,” the paper wrote. “A number of them stuck around as Sheen lingered onstage handing out T-shirts to folks in the crowd.

[From Radar Online]

I was ready to put a fork in Charlie’s pickled liver, but he might just find a niche in bringing the crazy around the country. Or he could continue to be hit or miss. I’ll be surprised if he managed to make all his tour dates for even a couple of weeks.

Charlie in Chicago talking about the bad reception he got in Detroit. At least that’s he claims he’s talking about. The audience is straight out of Jerry Springer.

Charlie is shown yesterday in Chicago. Credit: WENN.com. There are also two photos from his Twitter account

Charlie Sheen’s dad Martin has expressed a lot of sympathy for his son’s drug addiction, and has reportedly tried to stage multiple interventions. Charlie has totally dismissed his dad and brother Emilio Estevez’s help when he’s been asked about it – of course. He’s said “I’m not interested in your rhetoric right now and “I’m 45 years old, and I’m not interested in people treating me like a 12-year-old.” Martin seems to think that’s exactly the case, though, and that once Charlie started using heavily his emotional growth was stunted at that point. He revealed this in an interview with British paper The Telegraph, and he also talked about how he struggled with alcoholism while he was shooting “Apocalypse Now.” Martin was 36 at the time, and got sober when he was around 50. Charlie is now 45.

Martin Sheen understands the “hell” son Charlie Sheen is going through.

He believes that Charlie, despite being 45, is still “emotionally” a child. “Because when you’re addicted, you don’t grow emotionally. So. when you get clean and sober you’re starting at the moment you started using drugs or alcohol,” the actor tells the U.K’s Telegraph magazine. “You’re emotionally crippled.”

Sheen, 70, has been through similar difficulties, he concedes: “I know what hell he’s living in. I’ve had psychotic episodes in public. One of them was on camera – the opening scene of Apocalypse Now. … I know what Charlie is going through. And when you do something like that, that is out of control, that’s the most difficult thing. You have to have courage.”

Courage and faith are required, adds the committed Catholic, whose latest movie, The Way, costars his son Emilio Estevez, 48, who also wrote and directed the father-son drama.

“Faith can help all of us. Addiction is the dark side. It’s a reflection of despair. And it’s fed by all the other negativity,” Sheen tells the magazine, a supplement to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Estevez, meanwhile, is optimistic his brother can beat his problems. “There’s always hope, and there are so many examples of people pulling themselves out of the sh– and having a rebirth,” he told The Sunday Times. “So you just pray for him and hope he has that moment of clarity.”

[From People]

For all the family members praying and pulling for him, Charlie doesn’t really give a sh*t because his career as a meme is thriving. He’s added multiple dates to his tour, he’s allegedly in talks with the people at Fox for some kind of talkshow and there’s even news that CBS is desperate to have him back on Two and A Half Men. If that happens, will Charlie drop that $100 million lawsuit against producers? Will he even consider the offer now that he’s struck out on his one-man crazy tour?

Here’s Charlie with some new chick he says he hired. He tweeted “the warlock hard at work; and they told me I couldn’t find a sexy stenographer. epic. ybw c”

Photos from Charlie Sheen’s twitter except for Martin Sheen, which was taken 9/12/10. Credit: PRPhotos