Charlie Sheen gets permission to talk to sick wife

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A Colorado judge on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for actor Charlie Sheen to visit and speak to his sick wife for the first time since a violent Christmas Day quarrel.

The judge's order followed the admission to the intensive care unit of a Los Angeles hospital of Brooke Mueller, the wife of the "Two and a Half Men" TV star, with a high fever and suspected pneumonia.

Sheen, 44, was arrested on December 25 in the ski resort of Aspen, Colorado, after Mueller told police he pulled a knife on her during an argument and threatened to have her killed. He was also put under a restraining order forbidding contact with her.

But the actor rushed to the hospital on Wednesday to be by his wife's side, fueling reports that the couple want to get back together.

"She wants to reconcile and get on with her life with Charlie and the babies," Mueller's lawyer Yale Galanter was quoted as telling the New York Daily News.

His lawyers won approval late on Wednesday for the restraining order against Sheen to be lifted while his wife is in the hospital. Court papers said Mueller also wanted to have contact with her husband.

Sheen and his third wife, who married in 2008 and have 9 month-old twin boys, were both due to return to court in Aspen on Friday for a formal hearing on Sheen's request to overturn the restraining order.

Aspen court officials said they would decide on Thursday whether to postpone the hearing because of Mueller's illness. Celebrity website TMZ said she was expected to remain in hospital for at least several more days.

No formal charges have been filed against Sheen, and Mueller is widely reported to want the case dropped.