‘Hurt’ Sitcom Star Responds to TV Legend’s Brutal Diss

Mario Anzuoni / REUTERS Sitcom king Chuck Lorre once decided Anna Faris’ private life was off-limits.

Six years after she quit one of his biggest shows, he put her in his memoir anyway, and she has now gone public with her sobriety in response.

“Yikes.

Yes, I read a few things.

I really didn’t see that coming.

Of course it hurts,” Faris, 49, wrote on Instagram on Thursday.

The post was in response to a passage in Sitcom , the book in which Lorre, 73, claimed Faris’ 2020 departure from CBS’ Mom vindicated his early doubts about hiring her.

“After six years, she left the show for mysterious reasons that were not mysterious to anyone on the show,” he wrote.

Lorre never spelled out what those reasons were, but he didn’t have to.

In the same passage, he tied his hesitation over Faris to Charlie Sheen, the Two and a Half Men star whose addiction struggles he says turned the set into a “nightmare.” “I wasn’t sure Anna would be appropriate for this kind of material.

Then I thought about how badly I’d bungled my working relationship with Charlie Sheen,” Lorre wrote in an excerpt published by Page Six.

He went on to cast her as Christy Plunkett, a single mom clawing her way to sobriety, after telling himself: “Someone’s personal life is none of my business.” That principle appears to have expired once Lorre had a book to sell.

Lorre’s memoir appears to hold the two stars to different standards.

Sheen, whose erratic behavior Lorre says made the Two and a Half Men set a “nightmare,” was fired in 2011 and sued Lorre for $100 million.