When Ashton Kutcher walked into that Malibu beach house in Two and a Half Men back in 2011, he wasn’t just replacing Charlie Sheen on screen. He was also walking straight into the most public stretch of his real-life “family drama” – a high-pressure marriage to Demi Moore that was already cracking, and a future that would eventually lead to Mila Kunis, two kids, and a very different kind of spotlight.

By the time Ashton Kutcher was officially announced as Charlie Sheen’s replacement on Two and a Half Men in May 2011, the show was already a cultural circus.
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