Charlie Sheen is making a public plea to reconnect with his Two and a Half Men costar Jon Cryer. 

The 60-year-old actor asked Cryer to reach out to him after he sent a message to him thanking him for his involvement in Sheen’s upcoming Netflix documentary, Aka Charlie Sheen, but didn’t hear back. 

“The only person I didn’t call personally to participate in the doc was Jon,” Sheen told PEOPLE in a new interview. “And the only reason I didn’t call him was because I didn’t have the right number for him, so the director reached out to him.”

Jon Cryer at the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards in 2024; Charlie Sheen at the Evening With Charlie Sheen in 2019.

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Sheen, who is eight years sober, explained that he wanted to reach out to Cryer himself after he spoke about him “so honestly and very compassionately” in the documentary.

“I wrote to him and I said, ‘Hey, thank you for your contributions, and I’m sorry we didn’t connect personally,'” Sheen recalled. “‘I hope to see you around the campus.'”

However, Cryer hasn’t replied yet. “I’m thinking I wrote to the wrong number,” Sheen said. “It’s not like Jon to not respond. He’s super responsible like that. So if you’re reading this, Jon, DM me your new number!”

Sheen and Cryer starred as polar opposite brothers Charlie and Alan, respectively, on the first eight seasons of the wildly popular CBS series before Sheen was let go due to his struggles with drug addiction and a string of criticisms he leveled against the show’s network and its co-creator, Chuck Lorre. 

Although the network attempted to salvage the situation by writing Sheen’s character off and replacing him with Ashton Kutcher, the damage was done. The series ran for another three seasons before coming to a close in 2015.  

Cryer is one of several familiar faces who details their experiences with Sheen in the two-part documentary, joining Lorre, Sean Penn, and Sheen’s ex-wives Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller. 

“It was really cool to hear from his perspective,” Sheen said of Cryer’s remarks in the documentary. “He was in the line of fire with all that stupid s— going on, and it was affecting him and his family and his career and all that. I can’t debate anything that he said.”

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Sheen also admitted that Cryer was “dead-on” in his assessment in the documentary that his struggles with addiction stemmed from him not believing he was worthy of the life he was living at the time. 

“He nailed that, and I’m so glad he opened that door, because it gave me a chance to really start thinking about that,” Sheen said. “He said, ‘He’s a guy that doesn’t believe he deserves the things he has’ … and I was like, ‘Whoa.'”

For Sheen, it was quite the revelation. “Suddenly, I felt like I was on a couch in Jon’s therapy office, and he was dead-on,” he said. “That’s something that I’ve felt my whole life, because I had no formal training. I had no formal education. I didn’t even finish high school. And suddenly I’m working and traveling, I’m a star, and all this stuff. It just happened. There was no plan. And there was always the voice of doubt there, telling me it’s only a matter of time before this all goes away, so to enjoy this as heartily as you can.”

He added, “That was really insightful of Jon, really, and compassionate.”

Charlie Sheen in 2021.

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While Sheen is eager to rekindle their relationship, Cryer admitted in a 2024 visit to The View that he is wary of working with Sheen again given their tumultuous history. 

“When Two and a Half Men was happening, Charlie was like the highest-paid actor in television,” Cryer said at the time. “Yet, he blew it up, so you kind of have to think. I love him, I wish him the best, he should live in good health for the rest of his life, but I don’t know if I want to get in business with him for any length of time.”

The 60-year-old actor added, however, that he might be open to a “one-off” situation with Sheen in the future, but he did not share any further details at the time.

Sheen has mended fences with Lorre in recent years, and even had a recurring guest role as himself on the latter’s comedy series Bookie.

“I was nervous, but almost as soon as we started talking, I remembered, we were friends once,” Lorre told Variety in 2023. “And that friendship just suddenly seemed to be there again. I don’t want to be too mawkish about it, but it was healing. And he was also totally game to make fun of himself. When he came to the table read of that episode, I walked up, and we hugged. It was just great.”

Aka Charlie Sheen premieres Sept. 10 on Netflix.