Within hours of becoming a national hero, a viral video star and the top topic on Twitter, Charles Ramsey talked about having trouble getting sleep. 

It wasn't because of all the excitement that followed his knocking down a Cleveland neighbor's door, freeing three women and a girl who police say were held hostage for years. 

Instead, Ramsey told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, it was about knowing he had lived for a year near the captive women on the city's West Side. 

"Up until yesterday the only thing that kept me from losing sleep was the lack of money," the restaurant dishwasher said on "Anderson Cooper 360." 

"I could have done this last year, not this hero stuff," said Ramsey. "Just do the right thing." 

Ramsey recounted Monday night's drama, when he heard a girl scream "like a car had hit a kid." 

He ran from his living room, clutching a half-eaten McDonald's Big Mac, to the house and helped free a woman identified as Amanda Berry. 

"Amanda said, 'I've been trapped in here. He won't let me out. It's me and my baby." 

Who are the three women freed in Cleveland? 

Ramsey and a man named Angel Cordero broke down the door, CNN affiliate WEWS reported in an earlier interview heard around the world. 

Ramsey told CNN he had never seen Berry before Monday, and at first, he could not place the name. 

"Berry didn't register with me until I was on the phone, like wait a minute, I thought this girl was dead." 
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