He’s “winning!”
After 12 years of feuding, “Two and Half Men” star Charlie Sheen and his former boss Chuck Lorre have finally reconciled.
The pair patched things up after Lorre wanted Sheen to make a cameo in his upcoming Max series, “How to Be a Bookie.”
“I was nervous, but almost as soon as we started talking, I remembered, we were friends once,” Lorre, 71, told Variety on Wednesday. “And that friendship just suddenly seemed to be there again.”
“I don’t want to be too mawkish about it, but it was healing,” Lorre continued. “And he was also totally game to make fun of himself. When he came to the table read of that episode, I walked up, and we hugged. It was just great.”
Reflecting on his time spent with Sheen, 58, while filming the hit CBS sitcom, Lorre said that he actually enjoyed working with the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” actor.
“I loved working with Charlie on ‘Two and a Half Men,’” Lorre recalled. “We did 170 episodes together before it all fell apart. And more often than not, we had a good time.”
“Assuming he’s in a good place, I’m in a good place,” the director added.
According to Lorre, he knew he wanted the “Being John Malkovich” star right from the get-go.
“It should be Charlie,” Lorre, who wanted a real-life celebrity for the role, said to Variety. “I remember Charlie was very much engaged in sports betting and he would tell me stories about it all the time. You know, when things were good.”
“He proceeded to kill it at the table read,” Lorre gushed. “His chops were just so finely tuned, as if we had not missed a beat.”
The Post reached out to Sheen for comment.
In 2011, the pair had a very public and very nasty falling out after Sheen called Lorre a “a stupid little man” as well as a “little maggot.”
Sheen also hurled several Anti-Semitic insults at the TV director in an open letter that was obtained by TMZ.
“What does this say about Haim Levine [Chuck Lorre] after he tried to use his words to judge and attempt to degrade me,” the letter reads.
“I gracefully ignored this folly for 177 shows … I fire back once and this contaminated little maggot can’t handle my power and can’t handle the truth. I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon. Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words — imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.”
Following Sheen’s tirade, the “Hot Shots” star collapsed into a drug-filled spiral and coined several iconic phrases such as “winning” and proclaimed proudly he had “tiger blood” in his veins in a bizarre collection of interviews.
Sheen managed to finally overcome his drug and alcohol addiction in 2017, and asked Lorre if there was any way that can be shown in their new Max show.
“He was kind of like, ‘Can we not do the drug-addled Charlie anymore?’” Lorre recalled of Sheen’s character, who stays in a rehab facility.
According to Lorre’s co-creator Nick Bakay, seeing the pair work together since the falling out was a great way to set up the series.
“Look, there’s an exploitive level to it, which is, it’s kind of fantastic for our first episode,” Bakay, 64, said. “But there’s a bigger part of it, and this is what really is my takeaway throughout all of it: Through all the carnage, these guys made beautiful music together. And Charlie’s really good.”
“How to Be a Bookie” premieres on Max on Nov. 30.
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