BROKE, battling HIV and with nothing to live for, booze-fueled Charlie Sheen tried to end it all in a blaze of glory by burning himself alive in an unhinged suicide attempt.
But as the chilling incident caught on tape shows, the 51-year-old sleaze ball was so drunk and drug addled, he even botched his own death! “Charlie wanted to go out in a blaze of glory — literally,” says a source. “His life has come crashing down and he felt as if he had nothing left to live for!”
At one time, the Two and a Half Men actor was the highest paid TV star, raking in a staggering $1.8 million per episode, and boasted he was worth more than $100 million.
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