Corey Feldman’s Corey Haim allegation rewrites their tragic myth

The Moment

Corey Feldman has made a new and deeply painful claim about his late friend and on-screen partner Corey Haim, and it’s turning the already tragic story of “the two Coreys” into something even darker.

In his new documentary, titled Corey Feldman vs. the World, Feldman alleges that Haim sexually molested him when they were teenagers making the 1987 cult classic “The Lost Boys.” Feldman says Haim, then a fellow teen star, suggested they “mess around” and framed it as something guys in the business supposedly did, even allegedly name-dropping Charlie Sheen as having said it was acceptable.

Feldman describes being frightened, not wanting the encounter, and doing whatever he could to make it stop. In the documentary, he summarizes it bluntly: he says he was being molested by Corey Haim during that time. Haim was about 14 when the movie came out; Feldman was about 16.

A representative for Haim’s estate did not respond to requests for comment, according to recent coverage of the film. Haim, who died in 2010 at age 38 from pneumonia, obviously cannot speak to Feldman’s allegation himself.

This comes years after Feldman publicly accused Charlie Sheen of sexually assaulting Haim on the set of the 1986 film “Lucas”-an accusation Sheen has repeatedly and strongly denied, calling it “sick” and “outlandish” in a 2020 statement.

The Take

Here’s where this stops being just another Hollywood headline and hits a different nerve: this is one child star saying he was abused by another child star. The usual “powerful adult vs. vulnerable kid” script doesn’t cleanly apply, and that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable.

For years, Feldman has framed himself and Haim as two boys chewed up by an abusive industry. Now he’s alleging that some of that harm came from inside their own tiny, traumatized circle. It’s like finding out the lifeboat you were rooting for had a hole in it the whole time.

Do we know for sure what happened in a bedroom or a trailer nearly 40 years ago? No. We only have Feldman’s account, and Haim is not here to agree, deny, explain, or put any of it in context. That alone should make everyone lower the pitchforks and raise the caution flag.

At the same time, dismissing Feldman outright because his story keeps getting more shocking is too easy-and frankly, part of the problem he’s been yelling about for decades. Hollywood in the 1980s was notoriously permissive, especially around child stars. Less supervision, more money, more drugs, and a lot of adults who were busy looking the other way.

To me, the most unsettling piece is not just the allegation itself, but the way Feldman describes the social script: the idea that sexual behavior was something teenage boys in the business were taught was normal, even encouraged, and that name-dropping a powerful adult made it sound sanctioned. That’s what a broken system looks like-when kids borrow adult language to justify things their instincts are screaming against.

Whether you fully believe Feldman, half believe him, or are still sitting on the fence, his latest claim forces fans of “the two Coreys” to reckon with the uglier possibility: that some of the harm didn’t just come from Hollywood, but from the desperate, damaged friendships formed inside it.

Receipts

Confirmed:

• Corey Feldman makes a new allegation in his documentary Corey Feldman vs. the World that Corey Haim sexually molested him when they were teens working on “The Lost Boys,” according to the film and coverage summarized on December 18, 2025.
• Feldman recounts Haim framing sexual activity between them as something that guys in the industry supposedly did, and says he felt scared and tried to stop it.
• Haim was 14 and Feldman 16 when “The Lost Boys” was released in 1987; those ages match public records of their birth dates and the film’s release year.
• A representative for Haim’s estate did not respond to requests for comment on Feldman’s new allegation, per recent reporting.
• Feldman previously accused Charlie Sheen of sexually assaulting Haim on the set of the 1986 film “Lucas” in his 2020 documentary My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys and related interviews.
• Charlie Sheen has consistently and strongly denied Feldman’s allegations about him, calling them false and “sick, twisted and outlandish” in a public statement given in 2020.
• Haim died in 2010 at age 38 from pneumonia, as confirmed at the time by Los Angeles authorities and widely reported.
• In a 2020 interview, Feldman said he felt he had “started a movement” by speaking out about abuse he says he endured as a child actor.

Unverified / Alleged:

• That Corey Haim sexually molested Corey Feldman during the time they were making “The Lost Boys.” This is Feldman’s allegation in his new documentary and has not been independently corroborated.
• That Charlie Sheen told Haim such behavior between boys in the industry was acceptable. This detail comes from Feldman’s retelling of what he says Haim told him.
• Feldman’s ongoing allegation that Sheen sexually assaulted Haim on the set of “Lucas” in the 1980s. Sheen has firmly denied this, and Haim is not alive to speak to it. No criminal conviction has resulted from that claim.

Backstory (For Casual Readers)

If you weren’t glued to Tiger Beat in the late ’80s, a quick refresher: Corey Feldman and Corey Haim were the teen dream team of their era. They co-starred in movies like “The Lost Boys,” “License to Drive” and “Dream a Little Dream,” built a best-friend brand in public, and later lived out their struggles with addiction and stalled careers on reality TV. After Haim’s death in 2010, Feldman increasingly shifted from nostalgia to advocacy, saying both of them were victims of a network of abusers in Hollywood. His 2020 documentary My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys laid out those claims in detail, naming some alleged abusers and accusing the industry of covering for them.

What’s Next

There are a few likely next beats here, and most of them won’t play out in a courtroom but in the court of public opinion.

First, we’ll be watching to see whether Haim’s family or estate formally responds to Feldman’s new allegation. So far, coverage notes that a representative did not comment. In past years, Haim’s mother has publicly pushed back on some of Feldman’s claims about other alleged abusers, so it’s possible she may speak out again.

Second, Charlie Sheen may feel pressure to re-address the old accusations now that his name has been pulled into a fresh chapter of this saga. He has already issued very strong denials, and there’s no indication at this point of any new legal action.

Third-and maybe most important-this adds fuel to the ongoing conversation about how young performers are protected (or not) on sets. The picture Feldman paints is one where kids were surrounded by sex, drugs, and very little supervision, then left to figure out boundaries with each other in that chaos. You don’t have to agree with every detail of his story to see why that’s a recipe for pain.

For fans who grew up loving “The Lost Boys” and the “two Coreys” image, this is going to be hard to sit with. It’s tempting to say, “It was the ’80s, everyone was wild, let it go.” But when one of the boys from the poster keeps saying, “No, something terrible happened to us,” it feels less like gossip and more like a warning label the industry still hasn’t fully read.

If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault or abuse, confidential support is available in the U.S. via the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 (RAINN) or online chat at rainn.org.

Conversation starter: When allegations like this surface decades later-especially involving two people who were both kids at the time-how do you personally balance empathy, skepticism, and the need to protect today’s child stars?