Charlie Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television - $1.8 million per episode on Two and a Half Men. CBS pulled the plug on his show mid-season. He broke the Guinness World Record reaching 1 million Twitter followers faster than anyone in history. He paid millions in hush money to blackmailers for years before publicly announcing his HIV-positive status in 2015. His father is Martin Sheen. His godfather is Robert De Niro. In the video below, Charlie Sheen sits down with ABC's 20/20 at 5:30 in the morning - sweating through a workout, completely manic, and explaining to a journalist why tiger blood runs through his veins. He said he was on a dr*g. Called it Charlie Sheen. Said if you tried it once your face would melt off. He called himself a Vatican assassin warlock. A grand wizard. An F-18. Said he had tiger blood and the DNA of Adonis and that's why normal substances couldn't touch him. The journalist asked if he was on anything right now. "Dr*gs? Get out," he said. Then passed a test immediately after. CBS had already fired him. Two and a Half Men was still the most-watched show on television that same week - as a rerun. He went on tour across America with a live show called My Violent Torpedo of Truth. Doctors said when Sheen arrived at the hospital they found trace amounts of blood in his c*caine system. He broke down on camera. Said his father Martin had no right to compare his addiction to cancer. Said he didn't care if it was his dad or a stranger - back off with the judgment. Years later, clean and sober, he admitted the whole period was a full psychotic breakdown triggered by substances. He called it winning at the time. Was Charlie Sheen a man publicly falling apart, or the first person to accidentally turn a mental breakdown into a viral empire?