Shocking amount Charlie Sheen was paid per episode of Two and a Half Men

Charlie Sheen's co-star has revealed how much he was paid in Two and a Half Men.

Sheen starred in the sitcom for eight years across eight seasons, before he was eventually dismissed from the show in 2011.

Now 60, he has been sober for almost a decade, after struggling with an addiction to alcohol and drugs.

Recently, Sheen's co-star, Jon Cryer, has spoken about their time filming the show, and the alleged discrepancy between their pay cheques.

In the new documentary about Sheen's career, aka Charlie Sheen, Cryer claims that Sheen's contract negotiations 'went off the charts because his life was falling apart'.

"The dictator of North Korea was a guy named Kim Jong-Il," Cryer said.

"He acted crazy all the time and thus got enormous amounts of aid from countries who were so scared of him that they would shovel money at him."

Cryer revealed how much Sheen was paid per episode (Greg Gayne/CBS via Getty Images)

He added: "Well, that’s what happened here. [Sheen’s] negotiations went off the charts because his life was falling apart. Me, whose life was pretty good at that time, I got a third of that."

Cryer revealed that shortly before Sheen left the show, he was making close to an eye-watering two million dollars per episode. Meanwhile, Cryer claimed he was making two-thirds less, and only began earning $620,000 per episode once Sheen left.

Sheen left after a very public fallout with Two and a Half Men creator, Chuck Lorre, when he made a bunch of insulting comments.

"I think I just started partying too hard. I was having way too much fun," Sheen later told Katie Couric's talk show.

Sheen has been sober for nearly a decade (Munawar Hosain/Getty Images)

Agreeing with Couric that the 'show was getting in the way of his social life', the actor admitted: "It spilled over onto the set a little bit. I mean, I wasn't partying on the set, I was never high when I worked. But no, that was that became secondary.

"And what, what became the thrust of what I was saying, you know, curious to pursue was like traveling on my weeks off and inviting all my buddies.

"And, I'm eating steak, everybody's eating steak."

Sheen was on the show for eight years (E.J. Camp/CBS via Getty Images)

When asked why he gave up so much money, Sheen added: "You make a very good point, make a very good point, but at the same time, you want to have fun having that type of success, right?

"But I, you know, I take things too far. It's who I am."

Ashton Kutcher ended up replacing Sheen and the show continued for four more seasons.