Slowly but surely, Charlie Sheen is telling the world what really happened with The Great Charlie Sheen Meltdown Of 2011 -- or as he calls it, a "melt-forward."

On last night's "Conan," Sheen claimed that his troubles attracted media attention due to a misunderstanding. He said he was laughing so hard at Dave Chappelle's "blind white supremacist" sketch that he experienced a ruptured hernia, and was rushed to the hospital. The producers of "Two and a Half Men," on which he was starring at the time, assumed he OD'd and fired him from the show.