Corey Feldman is talking about pedophilia in a new interview with ABC’s Nightline, all for a special about child stars. I’ve just watched the video, and I have to say… Corey doesn’t seem cracked-out at all. He seems lucid and kind of paranoid, but he also seems like he’s trying to get to some deeper truth. Basically, I’m saying that I tend to believe the spirit of what he’s saying:
Here are some excerpts:
Sick, sad and twisted. Corey Feldman experienced the highs and lows of being famous and underage. In an interview with ABC’s Nightline that aired Wednesday, the 40-year-old former child star said that pedophiles were “like vultures” in the entertainment industry.
“The number one problem in Hollywood was, is and always will be pedophilia,” he said. “It’s all done under the radar… But it’s the big secret.”
“I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. … Didn’t even know it. It wasn’t until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted … till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere,” Feldman, now 40, said.
Feldman went on to assert that pedophilia contributed to the early death of his friend Corey Haim, pointing the finger at one person in Hollywood, but stopping short of naming him.
“There’s one person to blame in the death of Corey Haim. And that person happens to be a Hollywood mogul. And that person needs to be exposed, but, unfortunately, I can’t be the one to do it,” he said. “There was a circle of older men that surrounded themselves around this group of kids. They all had either their own power, or connections to great power in the entertainment industry.”
Feldman said that Haim’s substance addiction was also a “symptom” of the molestation he experienced earlier in life.
“There’s a lot of good people in this industry, but there’s also a lot of really, really sick, corrupt people in this industry,” Feldman said. “There are people… who have gotten away with [pedophilia] for so long that they feel that they’re above the law. And that’s gotta change. That’s gotta stop.”
My biggest problem is that he doesn’t name names. Is he afraid of repercussions to his non-existent career, or does he simply not want to be sued for defamation? Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally buying that a major mogul is into kids. I’m also buying that more Hollywood players are either into children, or very young, underage women, than we’ll ever know. I would just like to know the name of the specific guy Corey is referring to, or at least some clue to form into some kind of blind item.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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