Charlie Sheen demands raise in bizarre interviews

CBS cancelled the season's remaining shows last week following a Sheen rant against producer Chuck Lorre and earlier behavioural meltdowns caused by drug problems.

In the interviews Monday on CBS rivals NBC and ABC, Sheen, 45, insisted he was now drug and alcohol free, apologized for a perceived anti-Jewish attack on Lorre and insisted that the network would have to pay him 3 million dollars per episode to return to the Two and a Half Men set.

While many of Sheen's claims were hard to prove, he did allow ABC to conduct a drug test on him, which showed that he had been clean of drugs for at least 72 hours.

'I am on a drug,' Sheen said. 'It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.'

Sheen said he rehabilitated himself by blinking, and denigrated Alcoholics Anonymous for having only a 5-per-cent success rate. Claiming that he has 'tiger blood and Adonis DNA,' he described people who relapse as 'fools, trolls, weak, defeated. They allowed defeat to be an option, I will not.'

Yet he insisted that his drug use had been beneficial.

'What's not to love? It was epic. The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards just look like droopy-eyed armless children,' he said. 'I expose people to magic, I expose them to something they're never otherwise going to experience in their normal, boring lives.'

Sheen said he regretted referring to Lorre as Haim Levine, which was interpreted as an anti-Semitic slight: 'I feel terrible about it. People who know me know there's nothing about that in my history, anywhere. I would say I'm sorry if I offended you, I didn't know you were so sensitive.'

He added that he would only return to the set for a 1-million- dollar pay hike to take his earnings to some 3 million dollars per episode.

'It's gonna cost them a lot more because they're on a battlefield,' Sheen said. 'Basically they strapped on their diapers. They're in breach - they're in radical breach.'