Jon Cryer Reveals How His ‘Two and a Half Men’ Salary Compared to Charlie Sheen’s ‘Astonishing’ Pay

Charlie Sheen infamously spiraled out of control while starring on Two and a Half Men — and according to his costar Jon Cryer, the network continued shelling out big bucks to keep their lead actor.

“He’s in the midst of falling apart in every way I can imagine and he’s renegotiating his contract for another year of a show I am supposed to be on too,” Cryer, 60, said during the new documentary aka Charlie Sheen. “Apparently they had pre-sold a couple of extra seasons of the show. It was worth their while to spend this astonishing amount of money on Charlie.”

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Cryer — who portrayed Alan Harper, the brother of Sheen’s Charlie Harper — revealed that, despite his life being “pretty good at that time,” he was only being paid “a third” of what Sheen was getting.

“[Kim Jong Il] acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him that they would shovel money at him. That is what happened here,” Cryer added. “[Charlie’s] negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart.”

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At the show’s peak, Sheen, 60, was racking in a staggering $2 million per episode, despite his well-documented substance abuse issues. Following the show’s eighth season, Sheen was killed off and replaced by Ashton Kutcher.

“I had some trepidation about participating in this,” Cryer admitted of the documentary, which premiered on Netflix on September 10. “Partially because part of the cycle of Charlie’s life has been that he messes up terribly, he hits rock bottom and then he gets things going again.”