Charlie Sheen: I Want $3 Million an Episode

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Insisting he’s “not angry … I’m passionate,” Charlie Sheen is demanding a public apology from CBS, as well as a 50 percent pay hike – to $3 million per episode – after the “psychological damage” he claims the network and his Two and a Half Men producer Chuck Lorre have caused him.

“Look what they put me through,” said the actor, who also had choice words about Alcoholics Anonymous, whose group handbook, by Bill W., he called “a silly book written by a broken-down fool.”

As for his professional situation, “I’m underpaid … when you look at they money [the producers] are making,” said Sheen, 45, adding that he is “tired of pretending I’m not special.”

Losing, he told Monday’s Today show – one of two interviews he gave to CBS’s rivals NBC and ABC on Monday – is not an option.

Putting his enemies on notice, Sheen told Good Morning America his drug days are over: “I’m different. I just have a different constitution. I have a different brain. I have a different heart. Dying’s for fools. There’s certain blends I will not entertain, because that’s how people go down. I’m too smart to do that. I’m sorry for the guys that happened to, but you know, you should have read the directions before showing up at the party, you know?”