Charlie Sheen might have felt like he was "winning" exactly ten years ago, but the former Two and a Half Men star now has some serious regrets about his infamous public meltdown. In 2011, Sheen was booted from his starring role as Charlie Harper after publicly disparaging Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre. Subsequent interviews saw Sheen consistently say that he was "winning" along with other bizarre claims, like being a "warlock" with "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA."

Looking back at the fiasco ten years later in a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Sheen now wishes he would have just stayed quiet and did his job as he thinks about the millions of dollars he made himself miss out on. As the actor explains:

"People have [said to] me, 'Hey, man, that was so cool, that was so fun to watch. That was so cool to be a part of and support and all that energy and, you know, we stuck it to the man.' My thought behind that is, 'Oh, yeah, great. I'm so glad that I traded early retirement for a f***ing hashtag.'"

Sheen also reflected on a missed opportunity to turn things around, recalling a time when former CBS CEO Les Moonves had tried to get him on a jet to go straight to rehab. Sheen refused, but looking back now, he says he wishes he "would've gotten on the jet." We all know what Sheen would end up doing instead, which as the actor puts it now, was the absolute worst possible route he could take.

"There was 55 different ways for me to handle that situation, and I chose number 56. And so, you know, I think the growth for me post-meltdown or melt forward or melt somewhere - however you want to label it - it has to start with absolute ownership of my role in all of it. And it was desperately juvenile."

As for what could have led to the meltdown, Sheen believes it was the culmination of heavy past and present substance abuse mounted with the stress associated with the popular TV series.

"I think it was drugs or the residual effects of drugs ... and it was also an ocean of stress and a volcano of disdain. It was all self-generated, you know. All I had to do was take a step back and say, 'OK, let's make a list. Let's list, like, everything that's cool in my life that's going on right now. Let's make a list of what's not cool.' You know what I'm saying? And the cool list was really full. The not cool list was, like, two things that could've been easily dismissed. I was getting loaded and my brain wasn't working right."

Sheen also suggests that what he really needed at the time was someone to reach out on a personal level with an offer to help, rather than responding with "all types of fanfare and celebration." Eager to put all of the controversy behind him, Sheen also says that he's currently busy working on getting a new TV series into development. His last starring role on the small screen was for the sitcom Anger Management between 2012 and 2014. You can read the full interview with Sheen at Yahoo Entertainment.