I wouldn’t be writing this column if I wasn’t an avid fan and nightly-watcher of Two and a Half Men, which luckily for me, Charlie Sheen just so happens to be the star of. It’s unfortunate that the show can’t go on without him, but honestly, what kind of a show will it be without his selfish actions and ridicule of his brother that he dishes off episode after episode?

The only problem is, the same drunk, twisted and selfish Charlie that we all laugh at on the television is the same guy who walks our streets. Sheen was released from the show by CBS in early March, but it is rumored he could be offered his place back.

It’s not the near $2 million he’s going to be missing out on that’s causing me to lose sleep at night — it’s the fact that he became the focal point of the news around our country for weeks on end, and still is.

Look at all the issues around us that are a lot more important: Japan is in the middle of a disaster and the U.S. is involved with Libya. Heck, I’d much rather hear about bracket busters for the NCAA tournament than gossip about some egotistical celebrity.

To add fuel to the fire, not only do Two and Half Men’s 11.2 million viewers not have a show to look forward to, his custody battles with his wives is becoming an issue.

Who could blame them? Why would anyone want their kid to exposed to some substance-abusing, low-life, attention-grabbing headcase?

When 20/20 News asked if he has bipolar disorder, Sheen said, “Wow, what does that mean? Wow and then what? What’s the cure? Medicine? Make me like them? Not gonna happen. I’m bi-winning. I win here and I win there. Now what?”

Bi-winning, huh? That really convinces me that your not suffering from the aftermath of all the drugs you ingested before the interviews, which have probably killed a few brain cells here and there. Either that, or he is just ignorant to the fact that he lost his multi-million dollar job on a hit TV show and, soon, his kids.

To be honest, I don’t even want Sheen back on the show if he can’t clean up his act.

The character on the show is a character for a reason: to entertain people because of how ridiculous he is. I don’t think the producers of the show meant for the guy we laugh at from our couches to be a mirror image of an actual person.

It’s no laughing matter: Sheen has made a fool of himself. Whatever icon he may have been before is now completely ruined; he’s not only been an embarrassment to the people who’ve had the “sheer enjoyment” of working with him, but has completely disgraced himself.

In my book, that’s what I call losing.