Johnny Depp wasn’t among the finest influences in some aspects back in the day, and Charlie Sheen just confirmed that with his confession about his smoking and drinking partner. Turns out, it was the Pirates of the Caribbean alum himself who reportedly had the Two and a Half Men alum hooked on one particular substance for quite a long time: Nicotine.
In his new memoir, The Book of Sheen, he came clean about habitually starting to smoke while working on 1986’s Platoon with Depp. Also talking about his fellow co-star’s ‘strange glee‘ increasing as he fell deeper into the addiction, Sheen wrote (via the National Enquirer),
[Depp] began to offer the cigs more frequently; I began to accept them less cautiously (usually after P.T. or a meal). This went on for about a week, with Johnny’s strange glee around it growing by the day. He finally clued me in — he had successfully converted one non-smoker on each of his previous three films.
So it was Depp who got Sheen addicted to smoking in the first place? It sure sounds like it. But what’s even more confounding is that this habit got so severe that the Hot Shots! actor couldn’t stop for many decades to come! Speaking with Jesse Watters in an interview for Fox News, Sheen got candid about the same, as he remarked, laughing,
I didn’t stop [smoking] for 33 years, yeah. Thanks, Johnny.
Well, Johnny Depp himself is a pretty heavy smoker and has even earned not-so-happy remarks about this particular habit of his from his co-stars, so can you really blame Sheen for following in his footsteps?
Charlie Sheen Finally Quit After Smoking “25 miles of cigarettes”
Of course, getting rid of any addiction requires consistency, constant efforts, and is, overall, not an easy task. And after years and years and years of filling his lungs with the dark smoke of cigarettes, Charlie Sheen finally quit the bad habit in 2019. Enough damage must have already been done by that point, for sure, but better late than never!
Continuing in his memoir, he went on to share just how many cigarettes he had consumed by that point, writing,
I did the math and figured out that I had smoked twenty-five miles of cigarettes when lined up tip-to-butt. Thanks, Johnny; should I ever need one, I’ll send you the bill for my new lung.
Johnny Depp, on the other hand, is pretty infamous for his own chain-smoking habits, as he even once confessed to Cosmopolitan (via Seattle Times) that he was so addicted to the act that he smoked three packs a day, and yet, still wanted to have “another mouth grafted onto my face to smoke more.”
Since then, though, a lot has changed, considering how Depp has since admitted it to be “stupid” and “one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done in my life” (via YouTube). Not to mention, he has more recently been photographed vaping instead, so that’s that too!
Charlie Sheen Said Johnny Depp was “Cool as hell to hang around with”
While Charlie Sheen took clever jabs at his Platoon co-star in his memoir, while talking about him on the Primetime show, he said that Johnny Depp wasn’t necessarily a bad influence to hang out with. When asked by Jesse Watters if The Tourist actor was a ‘good influence’ on him, Sheen said,
I mean, he wasn’t a bad influence. [Grins] He was cool as hell to hang around with and a great drinking buddy, yeah! Is that a bad influence?
Well, hanging out around him might as well have been all fun and games for Sheen, but hey, he did get him hooked on smoking, so we might as well not entirely conclude Depp to be a good influence!
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