By the time it aired, Bashir billed it as “Child actor Corey Feldman speaks out against Michael Jackson.”. He said in a tweet that the 'vile' group had been sending 'mounting threats' to him on social media leading up to the attack. His mother peroxided his hair when he was four and put him on diet pills just a few years later to improve his chances of getting roles. At this point, a tall young woman with long blond hair appears and sits quietly behind him. “The biggest problem in Hollywood,” he repeats, mantra-like, “is paedophilia.” His fellow former child actor Alison Arngrim has said, “I literally heard that [the Two Coreys] were ‘passed around’. But again, first impressions do Feldman a disservice because Coreyography is pretty good. He sounds like a child who, once again, has been let down by the adults around him.
Those days are long gone, and now Feldman is better known for something else. While Feldman and I talk, Hollywood is deep in awards season, and another former child star, Joaquin Phoenix, the brother of Feldman’s late former co-star and friend, is scooping up all the best-actor awards for his performance in Joker. The film chronicled their early rise to fame and the struggles that followed. He is often portrayed in the media as a sleaze and a crackpot, and he has done plenty to earn both titles.
He soon discovers his mother’s stash of cocaine and tries that too. Instead of these factors being taken as evidence that something terrible has happened, too often they are cited as reasons that the victim should not be believed.
His death came after he allegedly went 'doctor-shopping', collecting prescriptions for more than 500 pills over a five-day period. Corey Feldman maintains that he's the victim of an attempted homicide, despite conflicting reports from police. Feldman and Sprague get engaged on Valentine’s Day. He grieves the death of Michael Jackson, having never reconciled after their strange 2001 falling out.
In an attempt to get away from Grissom, Feldman went to stay with a man he calls “Ralph Kaufman” in the book, since identified as Alphy Hoffman, who ran a social club for young Hollywood stars. But, you know, if the perfect character rolls by he might just grab it. And then I belatedly realise Feldman isn’t showing off his past glories. Why would they do that?” he asks, his eyes wide, and he doesn’t sound like a 48-year-old man trying to deal with the media. By any standards, Feldman and Haim’s addictions were horrific.