MTV first caught up with the late 'Lost Boys' star in 1987.
By Eric Ditzian
Corey Haim in 1987
Photo: MTV News
From Corey Haim's teenage years as a Hollywood heartthrob to his attempts at a comeback, MTV News has followed the actor's career and sat down for several on-camera interviews with him. After Haim's death Wednesday morning from an apparent drug overdose, we went back into our archives to pull out some compelling moments over the last two decades.
In 1987, fresh off the success of "Lucas," in which he played a painfully awkward teen who decides to join the football team to impress a cheerleader he's fallen for, Haim sat down with MTV to promote the vampire drama "The Lost Boys." In the midst of a wide-ranging discussion alongside co-star Jason Patric, Haim talked about the evolution of his career.
" 'Lucas,' everybody was like, 'Aw, he's so cute. He's such a little nerdy kind of guy,' " he said. "With 'Silver Bullet' I was in a [wheel]chair. In 'A Time to Live,' I had muscular dystrophy. I portrayed a kid who was dying. His mom was freaking out. This is pretty much my first chance to say, 'Hey, he's a dude. Gnarly!' "
The next year, we caught up with Haim again, this time quite unexpectedly during an interview with his friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman. The two threw their arms around each other, messed around and took nothing too seriously — even a discussion of Feldman's legal battle to become emancipated from his parents.
"We're best friends and we have the same name, so it's very easy," Feldman said.
"And the same style of dressing!" Haim added.
The duo would go on to star in films like "Dream a Little Dream," "License to Drive" and "Blown Away."
But when we caught up with Haim almost two decades later, while he promoted his comeback reality series with Feldman called "The Two Coreys," we encountered quite a different person. He'd battled substance abuse for years and had checked into treatment centers too many times to count, but maintained he'd finally gotten sober.
"Everyone asks me, 'Would you change anything, Corey Haim, from your past because of the drugs?' " he told us. "No, except maybe the emotional hurt I put on my family and friends. But no, I wouldn't change anything."
Just a few years later, though, Haim died at the age of 38. "This is a tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family, and best friend," Feldman said in a statement released Wednesday.
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