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06/23/2008: "Charlie Sheen apologizes for calling his wife N-word"

Charlie Sheen has apologized for using a racial slur in a voice mail to Denise Richards.

Messages from an angry Sheen to Richards started surfacing on the Internet earlier this week.

In one of the messages, dated April 19, 2005, the "Two and A Half Men" star can be heard ending a call by referring to his ex in a host of aspersions including the C-word and the N-word.

"I deeply apologize by my choice of words to all I have obviously offended; especially to Tony Todd, an African-American, who was my best man at my first two weddings," Sheen said in a statement obtained by Access Hollywood.

[ It's bad enough that Sheen is held publicly to account for a name he called his wife, without having to apologise to miscellaneous offended strangers when more appropriately his wife deserves the apology. ]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25252156/