“It was really cool to hear from his perspective,” he shared. “He was in the line of fire with all that stupid s–t going on, and it was affecting him and his family and his career and all that. I can’t debate anything that he said.”
“I regret that specifically still,” Charlie said of his breakup with Two and a Half Men. “I think if I hadn’t done what I had, I could be living a different life right now. All my problems wouldn’t be what they are. But you just don’t know that.”
Meanwhile, the actor—who shares daughter Cassandra, 40, with ex Paula Profit, daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 20, with ex Denise Richards, and twin sons Bob and Max, 16, with ex Brooke Mueller—isn’t afraid to address the fears Jon expressed in the doc about jinxing his eight years of sobriety.
“He’s justified to feel that way, because that’s kind of the historical pattern, but that’s not the case today,” Charlie noted, before optimistically adding, “I’m going to go out of my way to make him wrong every single day.”
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