Corey Feldman appeared on “Larry King Live” Wednesday to talk about the death of Corey Haim, his longtime friend and frequent co-star.
Feldman revealed that the pair – who had starred in A&E’s short-lived reality series “The Two Coreys” – had recently taken meetings about filming a sequel to 1988's “License to Drive” – with the possibility of doing a third.
“Corey had a concept to do ‘License to Fly,’ which would have been a sequel to ‘License to Drive,” Feldman told King. “We actually had a series of meetings this week. Both of us would have been in it. He would have been one of the writers. I would have been one of the producers. And we wanted to do a trilogy, which was all his concept, ‘License to Fly’ and ‘License to Dive.’ It was going to be caper movies.”
Feldman slammed Hollywood and TMZ over their treatment of aging childhood 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."
Feldman added: “You know, you see these people making great statements and that's wonderful and I hope they're all there for the memorial and I hope they're all there for the funeral. But where were they during his life?”
He also cautioned the media not to jump to the conclusion that Haim’s death was the result of a drug overdose.
“In watching everything that's happened today in the reports that have come out, the first thing I need to say is people need to stop.
