Charlie Sheen Named Winona Ryder?

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Charlie Sheen claims he gave Winona Ryder her stage name.

The Anger Management star said he was listening to psychedelic band The Doors with the actress - who's birth surname is Horowitz - when he was inspired to give her a new moniker.

"We were listening to the Doors, to "Riders on the Storm." And I said, 'You know, I'm thinking Winona Ryder sounds cool,' and she was like, 'Yeah!'"

However, despite coining the name, Charlie claims she never thanked him: "She never, never gave me credit to this day."

Charlie, 46, also talked about his firing from TV show Two and a Half Men last year following his erratic behavior and drug abuse, saying he thinks both he and the show's makers were to blame:

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