Selma Blair Wasn’t Fired From `Anger Management,’ Says Charlie Sheen; But She’s Still Threatening to Sue (Video)

Charlie Sheen told Jay Leno that Selma Blair wasn’t fired from “Anger Management,” she was written off.

Reports were going around that Selma Blair was fired from “Anger Management.” Charlie Sheen, the former Two and a Half Men star, corrected those accounts when he appeared on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno on Sept. 11. Charlie Sheen said Selma Blair's character wasn’t fired from “Anger Management,” she was "written out" of the show because people thought her character was "a little dull."

Selma Blair wants $1.2 million for being fired from “Anger Management.” Selma Blair says that’s how much she she would been paid if she continued working on the show. Selma Blair is threatening a lawsuit if she doesn't get her $1.2 million. According to published reports, Lionsgate is trying to reach a settlement with Selma Blair’s lawyer.

Selma Blair says was fired from "Anger Management" and plans to sue Charlie Sheen and Lionsgate Entertainment in a wrongful termination lawsuit.

Reportedly, Selma Blair was fired from Anger Management, the half hour comedy on the FX Network in June after she complained that Charlie Sheen had a oor work ethic. A source told the media that there were plans to write Blair off the show even before she had a rift with Sheen because "America didn't want to see Charlie with just one girlfriend." After an on-set altercation between Charlie Sheen and Selma Blair, the source says her exit "was accelerated."

“Anger Management”’s producer, Lionsgate, put out a statement in June saying, "We are confirming that Selma Blair will not be returning to Anger Management and we wish her the very best."

Deadline reported that Selma Blair was fired from “Anger Management” in an expletive-filled text shot off by Charlie Sheen after Selma Blair reportedly took issue with his on-set behavior.

Three months after reports that Selma Blair was fired from “Anger Management,” Charlie Sheen spoke about Selma Blair's controversial exit from the show when he appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday.

On the show, Charlie Sheen denied that the personal conflict between him and Selma Blair had anything to do with her leaving the show. Sheen told Leno, "One of our primary characters, Selma Blair, who played Kate, was written out because [the show] was not about our relationship, and the problem was too many people were still excited about the 'Two and a Half [Men]' character and thought the 'Anger Management' character was a little dull. So, um, that is not the case anymore."

Charlie Sheen continued "She leaves and [my character starts] circling the drain. So it's really fun to watch and hella fun to play."

Referring to the drug and alcohol reports that got Sheen tossed off “Three and a Half Men,” Jeno asked "Where do you draw from [for] that?. Where do you draw from the experience for that?"

"It's a mystery," Sheen joked. "It just falls out of the sky. It's crazy, it's amazing."

Selma Blair was replaced in the cast by Laura Bell Bundy who will play Dr. Jordan Denby, Charlie Sheen’s new sex-study research partner. Lionsgate said Laura Bell Bundy plays "a brilliant psychologist whose recent divorce, fondness for alcohol and wild mood swings turn Charlie's life into an emotional roller coaster." Brian Austin Green will return to “Anger Management” on a permanent basis as Sean, the boyfriend of Charlie Sheen's ex-wife Jen.

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