Back in the 80's, Corey Feldman was one of the most famous actors. He was only in his early teens, but he had an impressive resume with several commercials, TV shows and movies. He started his career at the age of three, appearing in a McDonald's ad that would catapult him in the business, booking over 100 commercials in his youth. He also appeared on 50 TV shows including "The Bad News Bears," "Mork & Mindy," "Eight is Enough," "One Day at a Time," and "Cheers." He debuted in the films "Time After Time," Disney's "The Fox and the Hound," and later, several high grossing movies such as "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter," "Gremlins," "The Goonies" and "Stand By Me."
But it wasn't until 1987, when he met Corey Haim, that Feldman was introduced into a whole new Hollywood that he didn't know existed. The Two Coreys, as the boys were known, starred for the first time together in "The Lost Boys," and later went on to star in a string of films including "Licence to Drive" and "Dream a Little Dream." The two became best friends since the moment they met, and they became the most coveted acting partners in the business. The craze over The Two Coreys was huge, but eventually, fame and not having a support system at home, took their toll on the boys, who fell slaves to a drug-induced world, sodomy and pedophilia.
Corey Haim died of pneumonia in 2010, at age 38. He had attempted 15 stints in rehab to combat his devastating addiction to drugs. Feldman, however, had a different luck. He was able to overcome his drug issue, and now, is finally opening up about being a child actor in Hollywood, and everything that led to the Two Coreys into a life of craziness. Feldman wrote a very graphic memoir "Coreyography," out Oct. 28, where he reveals the sexual abuse he and Haim endured at the height of their high times, when Hollywood was all about them.
According to the Daily News, Feldman wrote in his book that Haim was the first of the two to be sexually assaulted, though he didn't recognize at the time that he was being abused and he thought that pleasuring older men was what a young boy did. Haim came on to Feldman, which struck him as a surprise. "Within hours of our first meeting, we found ourselves talking about 'Lucas,' the film he made in the summer of 1985, the role I had wanted for myself," Feldman writes in his memoir. "At some point during the filming, he explained an adult male convinced him that it was perfectly normal for older men and younger boys in the business to have sexual relations, that it was what all 'guys do.' So they walked off to a secluded area between two trailers, during a lunch break for the cast and crew, and Haim, innocent and ambitious as he was, allowed himself to be sodomized."
"So ..." Haim told Feldman, according to the book, "I guess we should play around like that, too?" Feldman, still a virgin at that point, told him: "No, that's not what kids do, man." After Corey Feldman denied Haim's advances, Feldman said Corey got on his case and would pester Feldman to look for men or women to have sex with. At the time Feldman suggested Haim sleep with an older man, by the name of Marty Weiss. He was a talent manager who was later arrested in 2011 for committing lewd acts with underage minors. "They walked single file into the adjoining room. I heard sounds, banging, thumping. I felt my stomach flip-flop. I felt sick," Feldman recounted in his book.
Haim, who Feldman described as an overly sexualized teenager, pressured him once again into hooking him up, so he made a call to an "older, kinda fat" actor whom he refers to as Tony Burnham in the book. After they met, Burnham and Haim spent most of their time together. But Feldman wasn't alone either. He had the company of his assistant, whom he refers to as Ron Crimson. He was in his 20's and he turned the young actor into new drugs. One night, after taking a concoction of pills "that Ron had made up," the woozy teenager felt a hand on his thigh. Ron asked if it was OK and wound up having oral sex with the "petrified" and "revolted" Feldman, who was frightened of a confrontation.
But the moment Feldman hates the most, was when he was close to passing out from mononucleosis, but roused himself to do blow with Haim and two older men he identified as Crimson and Burnham. "If it wasn't the first time Haim had experimented with cocaine, it was definitely one of the first," writes Feldman. "That knowledge has been exceedingly difficult to live with, knowing that I helped influence his drug use and, ultimately, unwittingly contributed to my best friend's demise."
"Slowly, over a period of many years," he writes, "I would begin to realize that many of the people I had surrounded myself with were monsters." According to the Post, it got so bad that after fleeing Ron's clutches one night only to have another adult male friend attempt to molest him right after, he escaped to the only safe and friendly place he knew. "I was shattered, disgusted, devastated. I needed some normalcy in my life. So, I called Michael Jackson," he writes. "Michael Jackson's world, crazy as it sounds, had become my happy place. Being with Michael brought me back to my innocence. When I was with Michael, it was like being 10 years old again."
Jackson never made any sexual overtures to him, Feldman insists, but at one point, Jackson showed him pictures of diseased adult genitalia. Feldman said he did it to demonstrate the dangers of unprotected sex. The pair confided in each other about their respective childhood traumas, with Feldman noting that even then, Jackson was "still absolutely terrified of his father." Their friendship ended in 2001, when Jackson heard a rumor that Feldman was planning to trash him in a book. Despite Feldman's denials, Jackson shut him out, and the two never spoke again.
Although Haim's battle with his drug abuse was eventually lost, Feldman's story is different. He recalls that since a severe but short relapse in 1995, he "never had another hard drug again." Being a child star in Hollywood, he has some serious advice to parents who have their kids in the business. "People always ask me about life after childhood stardom. What would I say to parents of children in the industry?" he writes. "My only advice, honestly, is to get these kids out of Hollywood and let them lead normal lives."
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