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Chuck Lorre recounts Scientology years and clashes with stars

Variety's interview covers four famously difficult TV stars, Roseanne Barr, Brett Butler, Cybill Shepherd and Charlie Sheen, and says only the Sheen rift was repaired; the rest remain unresolved.

On air: Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock on Late Night BBN
Published 10:55 PM ET, Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Photo: Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

Photo: Chuck Lorre — Photo: Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

At a glance

First reported by Variety: “Chuck Lorre Tells All: His 10 Years in Scientology, Clashes With Stars Like Roseanne and Brett Butler, and How ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Cast Shocked Him”.
Covered on BBN on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 10:55 PM ET on Late Night BBN, by Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock.
Topics: Chuck Lorre.
BBN covered this story before: Why Chuck Lorre Felt Vindicated After Anna Faris Left Mom (October 14).

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VarietyChuck Lorre Tells All: His 10 Years in Scientology, Clashes With Stars Like Roseanne and Brett Butler, and How ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Cast Shocked Him

What BBN said about it

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentChuck Lorre has been entangled with some of the most notoriously difficult TV comedy stars in modern memory.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVariety reports that TV producer Chuck Lorre has told all.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTold all about what, exactly?
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHis decade in Scientology, plus conflicts with Roseanne Barr, Brett Butler, Cybill Shepherd and Charlie Sheen.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVariety says he has only made up with one of the four, and that took years.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo it's a long interview about a workplace.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's a ceasefire, Vera.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOne treaty, three open fronts, and the one treaty took years to repair. I'm told the other three are not returning calls.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThose are not analysts, those are your group chat.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe treaty with Sheen is holding.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's the only one. That's all we know.