{"id":61372,"date":"2023-12-13T01:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T01:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/charlie-sheen-on-being-a-single-dad-to-his-teenage-twin-boys\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T01:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T01:55:18","slug":"charlie-sheen-on-being-a-single-dad-to-his-teenage-twin-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/13\/charlie-sheen-on-being-a-single-dad-to-his-teenage-twin-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Sheen on Being a Single Dad to His Teenage Twin Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/charlie-sheen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Sheen<\/a><span>\u00a0is sharing a life update when it comes to parenting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><em><span>Two and a Half Men<\/span><\/em><span> star spoke to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/charlie-sheen-on-being-a-single-dad-to-twin-boys-exclusive-8414196\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>People<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0and revealed that the 14-year-old twin boys &#8212; Max and Bob &#8212; he shares with ex-wife Brooke Mueller are now living with him full time, and the 58-year-old is embracing the &#8220;single dad&#8221; life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;ve mostly been raising my 14-year-old boys,&#8221; said the actor who is now six years sober. &#8220;Their mom has been trying to figure some stuff out on her end, so she&#8217;s not in the picture too much right now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s unclear what Mueller&#8217;s dealing with at the moment, though she has had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/brooke-mueller-committed-to-remaining-in-treatment-as-long-as-it-takes-exclusive-132592\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a history of substance abuse struggles<\/a><span>.\u00a0The outlet noted that a rep for Mueller declined to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As far as parenting teens, Sheen says he&#8217;s navigating the same challenges most parents face when their kids reach their teens, like being addicted to their screens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You know, the time spent worshipping their devices,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Although on the flip side, when they&#8217;re doing that it gives me a little time to not be dragging them all over the city. But I also feel like the screens detract them from having other opportunities to expand their minds in other areas.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sheen, who is also father to daughters Cassandra, 38, Sami, 19, and Lola, 18, recently reunited with <\/span><em><span>Two and a Half Men<\/span><\/em><span> creator\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/chuck-lorre\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Lorre<\/a><span>, whom he had a falling out with in 2011 after Sheen&#8217;s very public meltdown led to his ouster from the hit CBS sitcom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lorre has a new HBO Max series,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/bookie-trailer-first-look-at-charlie-sheens-tv-return-in-chuck-lorres-comedy-214499\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bookie<\/em><\/a><span>, starring comedian\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/sebastian-maniscalco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Maniscalco<\/a><span>\u00a0as Danny the bookie. Sheen <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/bookie-trailer-first-look-at-charlie-sheens-tv-return-in-chuck-lorres-comedy-214499\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hilarious appears as himself<\/a><span> in the series premiere. Lorre <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/two-and-a-half-men-creator-chuck-lorre-shares-how-he-and-charlie-sheen-reconciled-exclusive-214777\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to ET<\/a><span> last month and explained how the reconciliation and subsequent Sheen cameo came to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I was hopeful that Charlie was in a good place and up for it,&#8221; Lorre said of reaching out to Sheen, saying that he wasn&#8217;t afraid of trying to reconcile with the actor after so much time had passed. &#8220;I\u00a0called his agent&#8230; they put me in touch with Charlie, and I said, &#8216;Here&#8217;s a funny idea.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He couldn&#8217;t have been more gracious and enthusiastic and generous about the whole thing,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We talked on the phone for probably and hour that first time, and I sent him the script &#8212; &#8217;cause I&#8217;m asking him to play himself, a fictional version of himself, and I wanted to be respectful that it was something he&#8217;d be comfortable with.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Bookie<\/span><\/em><span>&#8216;s series premiere also featured Angus T. Jones, who played Sheen&#8217;s nephew, Jake, on <\/span><em><span>Two and a Half Men<\/span><\/em><span>. Jones was 10 when he was cast in the sitcom. He left the show after 10 seasons and stepped away from acting altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He was not necessarily going, &#8216;Oh boy. I&#8217;m going to act again!'&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/chuck-lorre-shares-how-he-got-angus-t-jones-to-reunite-with-charlie-sheen-on-bookie-exclusive\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorre said of making the call<\/a><span> to reunite with Jones on the project. &#8220;But he was game and he was great. He was great at eight and he was great at 28.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Bookie<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0cameo, Jones appears as one of the players in Sheen&#8217;s character&#8217;s poker game &#8212; a fun callback to\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Two and a Half Men<\/span><\/em><span>, where Charlie corrupted his young nephew with his own high-stakes gambling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Almost 20 years to the day after we shot the pilot of\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Two and a Half Men<\/span><\/em><span>, we shot that scene with the two guys playing poker,&#8221; Lorre says, &#8220;and the other guys at the table were in the pilot of\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Two and a Half Men<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0as well.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/charlie-sheen-on-being-a-single-dad-to-his-twin-boys-as-ex-brooke-mueller-is-not-in-the-picture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Sheen\u00a0is sharing a life update when it comes to parenting. The Two and a Half Men star spoke to People\u00a0and revealed that the 14-year-old twin boys &#8212; Max and Bob &#8212; he shares with ex-wife Brooke Mueller are now living with him full time, and the 58-year-old is embracing the &#8220;single dad&#8221; life. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4746,174,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-61372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-charlie-sheen","9":"tag-entertainment-tonight","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}