Chuck Lorre talks Sheen

Interesting TV Guide interview with Chuck Lorre that'll be on the stands Thursday: The "Two and a Half Men" creator talks about Charlie Sheen and how it all fell apart. Hard what to make of this interview and why it's running now, but there are some major tidbits here: He says he was afraid Sheen was going to die, and that he attempted to intervene all the time. He also said he "offered to quit the show last winter. I said, ‘Listen, if for some reason I’m now the Antichrist, I’m happy to leave. It’s not in my interest to stop the show, and I certainly don’t want to put all these people out of work. Keep going. Get another guy. Don’t stop on my account.’ ”

(Meanwhile, the question -- "if you knew there was a drug problem all these years why didn't you get Warner Bros. and CBS to do something about it fast?" -- doesn't appear anywhere that I saw. Nor does Lorre address what seemed to be the biggest problem: that Sheen launched an ad hominen attack against him, which prompted the firing.) Anway, take a look...