Takeaways From Chuck Lorre's New Memoir, 'Sitcom'

Chuck Lorre’s new memoir, Sitcom, released last week, digs into his long-running TV career and several high-profile conflicts. The writer and producer behind The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and Mike & Molly portrays himself with striking candor—calling himself an alcoholic, pothead, and a college dropout. The book revisits bitter feuds and “dust-ups” involving Roseanne Barr, Charlie Sheen, Anna Faris and others. Lorre also writes that he spent a decade as a Scientologist, describing an early “out-of-body” moment and a later “billion-year” contract. He believed Scientology would heal his ulcerative colitis and his father’s heart disease.