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Jane Lynch is a Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe winner for her role as Sue Sylvester on Glee. Lynch was on Glee from 2009-2015. However, before that, from 2004-2014, she was a reoccurring character on Two and a Half Men, starring Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer.
But, when Sheen was fired from the CBS network sitcom, did Lynch hold any bad blood towards the actor?
Who Did Jane Lynch Play On Two And A Half Men
Jane Lynch played the therapist, Linda Freeman, on the show. She was first introduced as Jake—Angus T. Jones’ character, therapist in the episode “Hey, I Can Pee Outside in the Dark.”
Linda Freeman is a child therapist hired to help Jake handle the divorce. However, she ends up providing therapy for Alan—Jon Cryer’s character—and Charlie—Charlie Sheen’s character.
Lynch’s character is kind and sweet towards Jake, likely because he is a child, but she is very sarcastic when it comes to dealing with Charlie and Alan. She is also known for overcharging people: she charged Charlie $200 for only five minutes.
Her character was used as a plot device to help the three main characters—Charlie, Alan, and Jake—to overcome their issues with each other. For example, Charlie was constipated over having to decide between Mia and Chelsea. Alan had insomnia because of his jealousy over Charlie’s success.
Also, in the episode “That Special Tug,” Charlie reveals he only sees Freeman in case he kills his brother, so he is laying the groundwork for an insanity defense.
Furthermore, she becomes the therapist for Charlie and Chelsea when they decide to attend couples counseling because of Charlie’s fear of commitment. Eventually, Charlie, in the episode “Tinkle Like a Princess,” decides to stop seeing Freeman because she is just another woman who wants to change him.
She doesn’t attend the funeral when Charlie Sheen’s character is killed. But, when Ashton Kutcher’s character, Walden, arrives as the replacement for Sheen, he starts seeing Freeman.
How Does Jane Lynch Feel About Charlie Sheen After He Was Fired From Two and a Half Men?
After working together for so many years, when Sheen was fired from his show, how did Lynch feel about him? When speaking to The Advocate, Lynch had nothing but praise for the actor.
She said she thoroughly enjoyed working with him in the past. “He’s one of the nicest guys and a true leader on that set,” Lynch said. “He’s going through his stuff now, but there’s a really solid, wonderful person in there, and I love him very much.”
After Sheen left Two and a Half Men, he starred in the FX sitcom Anger Management. On that show, Lynch and Sheen were reunited. When the rumors of the actress guest starring on the show, Lynch told Larry King, “I would, we’ve [she and Sheen] talked about it, and if we can make it work, we’ll do it.”
Anger Management producer Bruce Helford said when news broke of Lynch’s casting, “We’ve got a lot of good people coming up, but we love her very much.”
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Why Was Charlie Sheen Fired From Two and a Half Men?
Charlie Sheen was one of the highest-paid actors on television, but after a string of personal scandals, which damaged his career, and a public feud with Warner Bros., he was fired from Two and a Half Men. So, what happened?
Production was put on hold for the show’s eighth season so that Sheen could attend rehab. He had been battling drug and alcohol-related incidents.
But, in an interview with Alex Jones, Sheen took aim at the shows creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre. In the radio interview, Sheen said Lorre is a “clown” and a “charlatan.”
He then goes on to say he was an “F-18” with “poetry in [his] fingertips” and with an army of “Vatican assassin warlocks.” Also, his success rate is “100 percent,” in comparison to the “5 percent” success rate of “bootleg cult” Alcoholics Anonymous.
After this interview, Warner Bros. released this statement, “After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on Two and a Half Men effective immediately.”
TMZ released the contents of a letter Warner Bros. sent to Sheen’s lawyer, saying the actor had been “engaged in dangerously self-destructive conduct and appeared to be very ill.”
The letter also said Warner Bros.’ “Reasonable good faith opinion that Mr. Sheen has committed felony offenses involving moral turpitude (including but not limited to furnishing of cocaine to others as part of the self-destructive lifestyle he has described publicly).”
After this, the eighth season didn’t continue production. When the sitcom returned for the ninth season, Sheen was replaced with Ashton Kutcher, who played an internet billionaire who bought Sheen’s character’s beach house.
Two and a Half Men killed Sheen’s character by having him fall on the subway tracks in Paris and was killed by a train. In the funeral episode, they say, “His body just exploded like a balloon full of meat.”
But Sheen’s character does make a reappearance in season nine. In the series finale, viewers see Sheen’s character ring the doorbell and wait for it to be answered, but then he is crushed by a falling piano. A body double did this scene, so Sheen was never actually involved in the production.
The camera zooms out to see Chuck Lorre sitting in a director’s chair; he turns to the camera and says, “winning,” and then a piano drops on him. Lorre got the last laugh.
Two and a Half Men is currently streaming on Peacock.
