The (Very) Lost Boys

Corey Haim and Corey Feldman confront their darkest days—molestation, suicide attempts—for the cameras. And you get to watch. For better or worse

PLUS: Corey Haim fires back in an exclusive GQ.com Q&A

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"The Two Coreys" is back on A&E. On the eve of the show's return, Corey Feldman sat down with GQ.

How did Hollywood react to The Two Coreys ?
Everybody in this town seems to have watched. It's crazy. I ran into Elliott Gould, and he's like, Hey, love the show!

Season two is different—less Odd Couple , more raw confrontation. I mean, the first episode has you two revealing you'd both been molested as teens. Why talk now?
That was one of those things that we'd discussed not bringing up. And then Haim brought it up anyway. You know how there's one thing that your friend's got against you that he could use as blackmail at any time? That was the one thing.

To be fair, you brought up Haim's suicide attempt first, right?
Well, that was a bit of clever editing. The conversation lasted probably two hours. You have to encapsulate it in a twenty-two-minute episode.

It's harrowing stuff. Can you grasp how the molestation affected your life?
Well, I certainly think it affected Haim's. I think it's stunted him. That's the root of why he hasn't had a solid relationship. I went through my own similar problems, and fortunately, I was able to [compartmentalize] it in my brain. Let's not forget that I went through an intensive ten-month rehabilitation process [to get over a heroin addiction]. The only way I could overcome that addiction was to deal with my deep-rooted problems. I wanted to put it out there and give it back to God and all that healthy stuff you're supposed to do.

You were friends, famously, with Michael Jackson. Are you worried that people will assume he did this to you?
People can say whatever they want, but it wasn't Michael. He and I have our own issues, but that wasn't one of them. The bottom line is, I know who it was. I didn't know how to cut him off. Not only did I continue being friends with the guy, but he was working for me.

Working for you?
The guy that did this to me was my assistant. He would come in when I was sleeping. I would wake up and I would know what was going on, but I would just try to ignore it and hope that he would go away, which is how kids who aren't ready to deal with something deal with it. I was still a virgin at the time. I hadn't even had sex with a girl. So for me it was just kind of bewildering. Despite what people think, I was actually very innocent and very naive at the time. I was your typical American kid.

Have you ever confronted him?
No. I haven't seen him since 1986.

You and Haim have had a rocky past. What's your relationship like now?
We're not on speaking terms at the moment. There's always going to be some level of friendship. Blood is thicker than water. But I've officially drawn the line. If I'm helping to perpetuate a lie, I'm adding to the problem. Every person needs to hit their bottom.

You don't think he's hit rock bottom yet?
I think he's hit several, but not the one that's taken him to the curb. I know that he's lost teeth. I know that he's lost hair. He's never been arrested. He's never spent time in jail. He's basically the Canadian Keith Richards.

He says he's clean. But when he showed up to shoot a cameo in Lost Boys 2 , he was slurring his speech. What happened there?
The bottom line is, he's in the midst of a battle, and he's gotta fight his own demons.

Are you talking about prescription drugs?
Well, I don't want to go on the record as saying what his battle is.

Were you disappointed in him?
I was incredibly disappointed, and I think you can see it all over my face. There was no acting there. I worked very, very hard to get Corey into Lost Boys 2 . And then he shows up in that condition, and I was like, After everything we've been through to put this together, why would you pick today of all days to be half-cocked?

Switching gears: You've been married for almost five years. What's the secret?
Love, positivity, and fun. At the end of each day, I make sure that I put two hours aside to spend with my son. My wife and I take time out for ourselves, too, where we can go out with our friends or go up to the Playboy Mansion.

Do you hang out at the Mansion often?
Yeah, we do, actually. We go to most of the big parties. We even take Zen, our son, up there for Easter. They do this great big Easter-egg hunt. It's a family affair. My wife is going to be on the cover of Playboy in August.

Nice. How do you feel about the spread?
I was nervous and skeptical at first. But I happen to be a bit of a hippie myself. I believe the human body is an art form and something to be appreciated. I just hope my family doesn't look at the photos. Besides that, anybody else can enjoy them. They're the most ridiculously hot pictures I've ever seen in Playboy .

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In the July issue of GQ, Corey Feldman talked about his painful past, the troubled shooting of "Lost Boys 2" and why he wasn't speaking to his old friend Corey Haim. Here, in a GQ.com exclusive, Haim responds

You and Corey Feldman aren't speaking. Why?
I've been in L.A. for, let's say, four months. He's out of town, and he doesn't call, ever. But at the end of the day, there's always love.

Why do a second season of The Two Coreys?
Besides signing contracts for three seasons?

Okay. The first season felt scripted. Why make this one so raw?
I'm a hockey player from Toronto, bro. If I'm going to make a reality show, let's make it real. No script. No bullshit. Excuse my French.

You caught some flak for placing an ad in Variety that read, “I'm back.” Did you expect it to make so much noise?
No, man. That was just to say I'm sorry. Burning time, burning money, burning up people on the set, showing up late, everything I've done way back when. Harvey Bernhard—he was a producer with Richard Donner on The Lost Boys— he told me, “You can't go to every agent or manager or publicist and knock on their door.” He says, “Go to Variety and it'll be on every agent's, manager's, publicist's desk by seven in the morning.” So I did.

Has it helped?
Am I getting work because I placed the ad? No. I'm getting work because I'm really on the ball right now. My head's on straight.

I saw the footage from the set of Lost Boys 2. What happened that day? You were slurring your speech. You couldn't remember your lines.
I had a hard day. I'm a human being, and I'm allowed to have a hard day. And this is my reality show.

Are you clean?
I took an eleven-year break back to Canada. I like long vacations. That's what I say to people. They ask, “Where you been, Corey?” “Where you been, Haimster?” But I'm getting back into my zone on-set, and it is absolutely what I've been lacking for years.

You and Feldman discuss having been molested as teenagers. Why now?
That's life in this world. There are people that take advantage of other people—in this case, young, young children.

How has this affected your adult life? Do you have enough distance to know?
It's something that will be addressed in my inner soul for the rest of my life, and it's something that truly affects me, and I opened up a can of worms, so to speak. Every day I opened up, like, a can of sardines. It's something I've addressed. Psychiatrists can be helpful. They have the medications and blah-blah-blah. But I don't want any of that, man. I've dealt with this, and I'm dealing with this—second by second, minute by minute, day by day. Everything's cool. It's just like, It happened, it's over, and move on. Let's move on to the next subject.

I hear you just shot a cameo in Crank 2: High Voltage with Jason Statham.
They wanted me for Crank 1, but I was actually doing another flicker. So they wrote a part for me in Crank 2. It's the same writers, the same director. These guys are brilliant. My first day of filming, I went in my camper for a minute, and I just started crying, because I was, like, home. And I'm just so grateful. It's a cameo. But, like, Ricky Schroder did a cameo in Crimson Tide, and then boom! He got NYPD Blue.

Are we going to see a third Lost Boys?
Yeah, man, It's a trilogy! [singing] Trilogyyy.

The new season of The Two Coreys airs on A&E now.