Charlie Sheen is angry

Charlie Sheen has taped an interview with Entertainment Tonight that will air later today defending himself against the charges made by his estranged wife Denise Richards, who says Charlie is violent and addicted to porn, drugs and gambling. Sheen says:

“I’m deeply saddened because this is clearly demonstrating a wanting and willful attempt at what I describe as a radical and transparent smear campaign and, clearly, a departure from sound, sane, responsible co-parenting. It is a reaction to a failed marriage, a reaction to some twisted desire, real or imagined, to hurt, to punish, to discredit, to completely torpedo, to undermine my perception as a responsible father… a guy who would give his life for his children. (Richards is) the only one entirely culpable for putting these radical allegations out for public consumption… my children included. And I find that as unacceptable as anything I’ve ever encountered.”

It’s almost admirable that Charlie Sheen would be so clueless and indignant that he would attempt to take the moral high ground here. To recap: Charlie Sheen has been arrested five times for drug possession, soliciting prostitutes and credit card fraud, he was engaged to porn star Ginger Lynn and made plans to fake her death then have her undergo plastic surgery and assume a new identity to hide her past, and he was in rehab for drug and alcohol addiction 3 times. About the worst thing anyone can say about Denise Richards is that she was on ‘Friends’. Comparing him to her is like comparing Hitler to a baby rabbit sliding down a rainbow.