There was a time when actor Charlie Sheen looked unstoppable. His CBS sitcom, "Two and a Half Men," was so wildly popular that it made him the highest-paid actor on television when he signed on in 2010 for two more seasons of the show at $1.78 million per episode. He dealt with some personal demons and emerged from rehab seemingly stronger, ready to make a huge amount of money and make America laugh alongside co-stars Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones. Even better, he got to have some fun embellishing his semi-rock star status by playing a character named Charlie, who was apparently inspired by Sheen himself. Unfortunately, he fell from these great heights with incredible speed when he was fired from Two and a Half Men right back in March 2011.

Sheen's fall from grace was extremely public, as he aired his grievances with CBS, series creator Chuck Lorre, and even his co-stars to just about anyone who would listen in wild interviews that quickly became the stuff of meme legend. (Seriously, you couldn't walk into a mall in 2011 without finding Tiger's Blood merchandise.) He would even say that Lorre's other shows, like The Big Bang Theory, were just popular because of the precedent he set with "Two and a Half Men." Let's take a deeper look at this very messy and very public breakup and the aftermath, as it has become the stuff of celebrity legend. Many TV stars are leaving their hit showsbut few do so explosively.

As Charlie Harper on "Two and a Half Men," Sheen had to play a ladies' man with a big personality, but his behind-the-scenes antics proved more than the rest of the cast and crew could handle. Things got rocky early on when Sheen went through a nasty divorce from Denise Richards, who claimed Sheen was physically and verbally abusive to her, but it all escalated on Christmas Day 2009 when Sheen was arrested in a domestic violence dispute with his then-wife. Brooke Miller. This would prompt the first of three periods of rehabilitation, the last of which, in January 2011, forced production on Two and a Half Men to shut down.

Sheen and Lorre were reportedly at odds, and when Sheen was fired, he said some horrible things about the show and Lorre, recounting TMZ: "This is very good news (...) now I can take all the bazillions, I'll never have to look at whatshisc–-k again, and I'll never have to wear those stupid shirts as long as this Earth Dimension Soldier exists ".

Sheen wasn't the only one who was apparently unhappy with the show's working conditions, as co-star Angus T. Jones, who played Charlie's nephew Jake, he also left Two and a Half Men under less than great circumstances. Basically, it sounds like the show was a pretty troubled production led by some deeply troubled stars, and it all just boiled over in the end.

After Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men, he was replaced by That 70's Show star Ashton Kutcher. Sheen's character was killed off and given a funeral episode, but Kutcher's wealthy Walden Schmidt bought Charlie's beach house and allowed Jake and his father/Charlie's brother Alan (Jon Cryer) to continue living there with him. After two seasons without Sheen, Jones also left, leaving only Cryer and Kutcher to try to maintain the show's comedic chemistry. It ran for two more seasons before ending in 2015.

Sheen will go on to star in the FX series Anger Management, loosely based on the movie by Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler of the same name, three seasons from 2012-2014. (An actor who clearly has anger issues playing someone with anger issues is... a choice.)

His most recent turn on television is, surprisingly, in the HBO Chuck Lorre-created comedy Bucky, playing himself. Things seemed to calm down a bit for the old soldier, and he and Lore seemingly mended their relationship. Hopefully, then, Sheen will continue to keep his problems in character and on screen instead of making them for everyone else to deal with.