Cryer was doing the smart thing: He saved it all for his memoir. On Wednesday, the Hollywood Reporter published a long excerpt of “So That Happened,” coming out next month, which covers his long career in Hollywood, including his time on Broadway and starring in “Pretty in Pink.” Cryer gets really brutal describing what exactly it was like to watch Sheen completely implode during the eighth season of “Two and a Half Men,” causing the entire show to shutter production.

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Chuck Lorre already got his revenge on Sheen by penning a series finale last month almost exclusively devoted to mocking Sheen, who had verbally tortured Lorre during his breakdown. It ended with a piano falling on a Sheen lookalike. So now it’s Cryer’s turn to talk. Among some of the highlights:

* After Cryer went through a divorce, Sheen took it upon himself to become his co-star’s personal prostitute guru. “Charlie suggested a few online purveyors he used, as this was when prostitution was gaining a foothold on the Internet,” Cryer wrote. He added: “My forays into prostitution were about as awkward as you might imagine.”

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* Cryer didn’t know how to react publicly when Sheen got arrested on Christmas Day 2009 on domestic assault charges against his third wife, Brooke Mueller. “Situations like this are rough on your sense of friendship and loyalty, because the allegations are serious, yet you know Charlie and Brooke are a drug-troubled pair, and Charlie’s your longtime friend who was proud of his sobriety. . .” Cryer also described the tortured mental deliberations he went through after Sheen’s manager asked him for a statement of support.

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* Apparently, the infamous night of Sheen’s hotel-room-trashing with the naked “semipro” locked in the closet incident happened to be the same night Sheen took his kids to see “Mary Poppins” on Broadway. Cryer regrets that he turned down the invitation to see the musical with Sheen and his family. He imagines an alternate universe: “Afterward, when [Sheen] says, ‘Thought I’d head back to the room with a prostitute, get really f—ing high, decimate the place, then toss her in the closet,’ I say, ‘No, I don’t think you should do that.’ Then he says, ‘You’re right. Let’s get ice cream.’ Then everything is better.”

* After chronicling Sheen’s self-destruction on the “Two and a Half Men” set, Cryer was more stunned by those who protested that Sheen shouldn’t get fired. “An astounding number of people stood up for Charlie, as though people should be able to show up to work rarely, if at all, verbally abuse their co-workers publicly with anti-Semitic slurs, get arrested on a regular basis — as well as abuse drugs to the point where they can barely function — and not have their high-paying jobs threatened.”

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The full excerpt is here and well worth reading. Though Cryer never outwardly says anything terrible about his co-star (he seems to be genuinely worried about him), you can tell he’s a little bitter — especially about the massive salary Sheen continued to pull while on his downward spiral, much higher than Cryer’s own.