Actress Selma Blair is reportedly threatening to file a retaliation lawsuit against Charlie Sheen over her dismissal from his FX series Anger Management. The news comes after his recent appearance on The Tonight Show, in which he claimed that she was not fired, just written out.
TMZ is reporting that Blair is threatening to sue Sheen and Lionstage, which produces the show. She claims that once she began criticizing the big star for failing to learn his lines before appearing on set, she became a target. She believes that it wasn’t until Sheen heard about what she was saying that she was eventually fired.
Blair believes that she would have made another $1.2 million if she stayed on the show. If she doesn’t get paid, she’ll file the lawsuit.
Sources for TMZ do back up Sheen’s claim that she was written out to make Sheen’s character more exciting. “America didn't want to see Charlie with just one girlfriend,” the source said, which seems to support Sheen’s comment. “...The problem was too many people were still excited about the Two and a Half [Men] character and thinking the Anger Management character was a little dull,” he told Jay Leno.
However, TMZ does report that Blair’s exit was supposed to occur gradually over eight episodes and after Sheen heard that she was complaining, the plan was “accelerated.”
Whatever the circumstances are, the fact is that Blair is gone and Laura Bell Bundy has replaced her as the female lead. Anger Management airs on FX and will run 100 episodes.
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