Hollywood's blue bubble just took another hit from an unlikely source.
Charlie Sheen became the latest celebrity to break ranks with the entertainment establishment.
And Charlie Sheen told Megyn Kelly two words about legacy media that left Hollywood stunned.
Sheen drops bombshell during Kelly's tour stop
Charlie Sheen appeared at the Bakersfield, California stop on Megyn Kelly's nationwide tour where the conversation went somewhere most Hollywood stars wouldn't dare.
Kelly asked Sheen if he was getting more comfortable expressing his political views publicly.
What came next shocked even Kelly.
"I think we all, or a lot of us, remain beholden to the structure of the house that we were raised in," Sheen explained. "It's just that those are our early influences, and, so, it's just all I knew growing up."
The Two and a Half Men star said paying the highest taxes in his family finally made him question everything.
After President Trump's landslide 2024 victory, Sheen refused to spend four more years feeling the same hopelessness he experienced during Trump's first term.
"I was not going to go to bed every night feeling f***ing hopeless," Sheen said. "I was not going to go to bed every night being told things were catastrophic."
That's when Sheen decided to conduct what he called an "experiment."
"I'm gonna change the channel," Sheen explained. "I am gonna do my own research, like I've done with everything my entire life."
Then Sheen dropped the hammer on the media that had shaped his worldview for decades.
"What I was so hypnotized by, in some ways, can be described as state run media," Sheen declared.¹
"Legacy media is very much like that."
Sheen felt "really stupid" after discovering the truth
Changing his information diet led to months of revelations about what he'd been fed by the mainstream press.
"The things that I discovered and the things that I really unearthed," Sheen continued. "It was not just one of those moments. It was like months of those moments of oh my gosh."²
Sheen admitted he felt foolish for blindly accepting narratives he never questioned.
"And I felt really stupid," Sheen said. "I don't have a fancier way to describe it. Just some of the stuff I'd bought into and some of the stuff I was worshipping and some of the people I was hating because I was told I was supposed to hate them."³
Kelly asked how it would have felt if he'd voted for Trump.
Sheen revealed he didn't vote for Trump but wishes he had.
"That's another one of those examples where you feel stupid, I was still kind of on the other side," Sheen answered. "But it's a vote I'd like to have back."⁴
His father Martin Sheen represents everything Charlie now rejects about Hollywood's groupthink.
The elder Sheen attacked Trump as a "non-human" who is "the biggest nothing in the world" on the exact same day President Trump brokered a historic Gaza peace deal.
"His timing on that thing was really s***ty, man," Charlie said. "And I told him so."⁵
But Charlie caught himself from being hypocritical about free speech.
"But then I had to take a step back and we'd just gone through that whole thing with Kimmel," Charlie explained. "And so, I was like, 'Yeah, yeah, OK. No, own that.' Because it's the unpleasant things that we have to grant freedom to as well, right?"
Kelly couldn't resist pointing out the absurdity.
"Not when we just created peace in the Middle East," she quipped.
Hollywood's great awakening accelerates
Sheen joins a growing list of entertainment figures who've publicly broken with Hollywood's leftist orthodoxy.
Actor Zachary Levi urged "closeted conservatives" in the industry to come out for Trump during the 2024 campaign.
Whoopi Goldberg tried claiming Hollywood has "always been a very right-leaning town" during Levi's appearance on The View.
Levi called out the lie in an Instagram video.
"There are plenty, and by the way, they've sent me lots of messages, plenty of people in my industry, in Hollywood, who are terrified to publicly say they would vote for Donald Trump or be conservative in any way," Levi explained.⁶
When pressed, Goldberg could only name two conservative actors out of thousands working in the industry.
Dennis Quaid told Piers Morgan he plans to vote for Trump because "he's my a**hole."
Russell Brand attended the Republican National Convention after years of supporting anti-establishment politics.
Kid Rock performed at the RNC.
Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith admitted he regrets voting for Kamala Harris just weeks after casting his ballot.
"I voted Democrat. And I gotta tell you something right now — I don't like the fact that I did," Smith told Fox News host Mark Levin.⁷
The entertainment industry's stranglehold on acceptable political opinions is cracking.
Sheen calling legacy media "state run media" on a national tour represents the kind of public dissent that would've ended careers just a few years ago.
But after Trump's mandate from the American people, even Hollywood stars are starting to admit what millions of conservatives already knew.
The media has been lying to them all along.
And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
¹ Alana Mastrangelo, "Charlie Sheen 'Changed the Channel' After Realizing Liberal 'Legacy' Media Is 'Very Much Like State-Run Media,'" Breitbart, November 24, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ "Charlie Sheen Blasts His Father Martin Sheen for Attacking Trump Right After He Brokered Gaza Peace Deal," Breitbart, November 24, 2025.
⁶ Elizabeth Wagmeister, "Zachary Levi Urges Hollywood Trump Supporters to Speak Out," Variety, October 25, 2024.
⁷ "Stephen A. Smith admits he regrets voting for Kamala Harris: 'We're not falling for it any longer,'" The Washington Times, December 24, 2024.
