On Larry King Live, Corey Feldman, Haim's personal friend and co-star in several films and the reality TV show The Two Coreys (above), slammed both Hollywood and the media for ridiculing former child stars:
"I appreciate the fact that everybody really cares and — and is trying to show their expression of — of sorrow right now. But at the end of the day, Larry, where were all these people the last 10 years, the last 15 years of Corey's life?
"Corey was living in the Oakwood Apartments with his mom, very broke, very destitute. … He didn't even have a car. Where were all these people to lend a hand out, to reach out to him and say, you know, you're a legend, you're — you're an amazingly talented, wonderful person who's really never gone out of his way to hurt anybody other than himself. He was there for his mom and he took care of her. He's always been a good person.
"In this entertainment industry in Hollywood, we build people up as children, we put them on pedestals and then when we decide that they're not marketable anymore, we walk away from them.
"And then we taunt them and we tease them and things like TMZ, outlets like that, where it's acceptable in society, it's OK for society, as a whole, to pole — to poke fun at, to — to point fingers at, to laugh at us as human beings. Why is it OK to kick somebody when they're down?
"I don't think it is. And I don't think it should be tolerated anymore. I don't think it should be accepted anymore with our — within our society, within the entertainment industry, within the world as a whole."
Corey Feldman quote: Via Dylan Stableford's article in The Wrap
i agree. i mean really noone ever told him they cared. i wrote him letters and told him i loved him and that i would always be his fan. he even told me he didnt hear that really anymore. its so annoying how ppl just start to love a guy after he dies. and maybe if he was shown the support now he might not have died.
He has a point. The only person I saw standing by Corey's side during the two seasons of The Two Coreys was Feldman. Everyone else had washed there hands.