TMZ has done more recon and has gotten the real lowdown on HOW Charlie Harper died -- and it isn't pretty.

Sources at Friday night's taping tell us ... Harper married Rose -- the neighbor/stalker he flew to Paris with last season -- but things went downhill quickly when she found him in the shower with another woman.

In the episode, we're told Rose speaks at the funeral and recounts what happened to Charlie ... saying the day after the shower incident she and Charlie were waiting for a Paris subway when Charlie "slipped" and the subway literally blew him apart in a "meat explosion."

The strong inclination was that Rose pushed him and got away with it.

It seems Chuck Lorre couldn't take his aggressions out on Charlie Sheen, but he did the next best thing by taking it out on Charlie Harper.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/06/charlie-harper-two-and-a-half-men-charlie-sheen-cause-of-death-meat-explosion-subway-paris-rose-season-premiere/

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:lol: I got to watch this episode:

I read about this today. Personally I find it disgusting that Chuck Lorre would be so demented as to kill Charlie Harper the way he did. There were many other ways that he could have gotten rid of the character without resulting in giving him such a gruesome death like he did. :angryfire I mean, he could have had it that Charlie and Rose got married and just decided to start their lives over again in Pairis or move to London or something. Anything would have been better than to have him blown him apart into a 'meat explosion'. Anyone else agree with me?

I just have to wonder if reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated and it's all a set-up.

However they decided to "bump off" Charlie, it would be funny if James Earl Jones ends up doing his eulogy.