Hollywood's Evil

I grew up watching Corey Feldman's and Corey Haim's films. The two were nearly inseparable at various points in their lives. I always thought Haim was cute and silly while Feldman was strong and silent. What I didn't know was that these were mere facades behind which lurked the traumatic agony of abuse.

Feldman's account is important. In it, he chronicles his horrible childhood filled with self-centered, abusive, and negligent parents which led to a world in which he was bounced like a lonely pinball between their greedy hands and the dirty vulturous hands of Hollywood.

This memoir made my heart cry out for him, for Haim. These precious young men were treated as worthless usable vices by their perpetrators.

Childhood sexual abuse is one of the most silent and damaging threats against the human body, soul, and mind. For a child, it is too confusing; after all, these are people you love or like, people you trust. Surely they wouldn't want to harm you.

Yet Feldman, among the sickness of this vast world of darkness, manages to experience moments of joy in his life. In the deep black underground he finds the Light. He recalls the pivotal moments of his career, the excitement of working with Spielberg, of filming the memorable eighties films that have become special to our hearts. Somehow, during this chaos, in the bliss of the actor's world, he gets to grab on to the child's right to believe in something good.

God bless this incredible young man for bringing out the truth of a great evil, for yearning to do what is right, for having faith in a promising future for him and his family.

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