Now that Corey Feldman has told the story that he says Corey Haim told him about Charlie Sheen, the question has to be asked. Does this ring true to you? Considering the crash landing Sheen had after what went down during the time he was on Two And A Half Men and was ultimately removed from the show, it's easy to make up just about anything about him. Charlie was not hiding the fact that he liked women, he liked to party and he did an excessive amount of drugs.
Because of that, you can paint a picture of the man as doing just about anything degrading that you can think of, and there's going to be a segment of the population that will believe it. Because of the bad things that we know happen to children in the world and the cases that have been proven, it's not hard to believe that things of this nature are happening in Hollywood. Many people believe that, and there are some people who believe some of the most famous and respected stars, directors and producers are all part of this.
The rumor has been out there for several years now. The story goes that while making the movie Lucas, Charlie Sheen raped Corey Haim. Longtime Corey Feldman friend Dominick Brascia sold a story to the National Enquirer claiming as much. Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, denied these claims. It was about the time that Corey Feldman announced that he would be revealing the names in a movie he planned to make when Brascia took it upon himself to sell the story to the National Enquirer. Or did he? Could it be that Feldman influenced Brascia to do this and then came out immediately with a no comment?
Obviously, what I am saying is speculation. However, the same can be said for the story Corey Feldman told in his documentary regarding Sheen and Haim. How do we know Haim told Feldman this story when he is no longer alive to verify that he did? If Judy Haim claims she never heard the story and Sheen denies it ever happened, then all we're left with is Feldman telling the story. It's not too far of a stretch to believe that Feldman was aware that Brascia was going to sell the story to the National Enquirer ahead of time.
You might ask why Feldman would do such a thing. The Inquirer did contact him to comment on this story, and he said that he couldn't comment. Maybe the point of selling the story was to get it out there to the public. If you're going to make it more believable to the public by the time Feldman ever released a movie or a documentary, it would be useful if there was a story out there in a printed publication before saying things similar to what Feldman would reveal in his documentary.
It should be asked, however, whether the story really makes sense. It's been said by David Seltzer that at the time they were filming Lucas, Sheen was a bit of a ladies man and was also a perfect gentleman. If we're going to believe stories that people who were not on the set of Lucas are going to tell, then we should also believe things that are said by people who were on the set, including the actual director of the movie.
The Feldman story goes as follows, Sheen propositioned Haim. He may have been a bit reluctant, but Sheen supposedly convinced him by saying this was something all guys did in Hollywood. It was normal. He then proceeded to lead Haim between a couple of trailers, still in daylight. Haim pulls his pants down, and Sheen lubes him up with Crisco oil and does his business. You can fill in the blanks. We've been waiting for Feldman to reveal what he supposedly knew about Sheen, and this is the story he told us? Feldman has always said Haim told him this story, and the documentary had a few other people saying that Haim told them something happened as well.
Just give some thought to the story that Feldman has told. Does it make sense? There are going to be people on the set of Lucas, and there are going to be people around the trailers. There's going to be armed security guards. So, is it really believable that this happened the way Feldman describes it? And furthermore, how is it that Sheen is carrying around Crisco to use as lube for this deed? Crisco oil is not something people are going to be carrying around with them. It's not like he had a can of it on his person for just such an emergency.
If his trailer is one of the trailers that they are standing between, perhaps Charlie went into his trailer and retrieved the Crisco, but that raises another question. Why wouldn't he just have him go into his trailer? Seltzer does point out in his director's notes that are available online that Haim had a personal bodyguard. So where was his bodyguard? If Sheen does convince him to sneak off, they're probably not going to go back to Haim's trailer, where Judy probably would have been as well. But, Sheen was an adult at the time and may have had a trailer of his own to himself. If he's going back to get the Crisco, why wouldn't they just do the deed there?
For those people who believe it's possible that Sheen did this to him, and I admit that I have been one of them, when you finally hear the story as told by Feldman, you question whether this is true or not. It sounds so ridiculous that it almost reaches out to other stories from other real victims and makes them ridiculous by association. That's the level of absurdity to the story that Feldman has told. There were people willing to believe this story based on Sheen's actions through the years as well as Haim's struggles, and then they hear the details that Feldman has provided us.
I'm really at a loss to say anything else here. Feldman has doubled down. If Sheen doesn't sue him and follow it through the court system, Feldman will cite that as proof that Sheen is guilty. Sheen doesn't have to prove anything. The burden of proof is based on evidence, and there is no evidence. Corey Haim is dead. Unless you start questioning the people who were there on the set of Lucas 35 years ago and somebody saw something and is willing to talk, you've got nothing but a story that sounds silly when you watch Feldman explain it in the documentary.
We all must keep in mind that the very real truth is that Corey Haim was going through pain that was obviously based on bad things that happened to him in Hollywood in the 1980s. He battled those demons for many years, and now, 10 years after his death, he's almost being made into a joke by Feldman. This is a documentary that didn't hesitate to reveal how messed up on drugs and how sex-crazed he was, while painting Feldman as strong and brave while he was supposedly being victimized himself.
At the end of the day, I'm not convinced that anything I heard on the Corey Feldman documentary is true. Do I believe that bad things could have happened? I do. Given the erratic behavior Feldman has exhibited and stories that are being contradicted, we must keep one thing in mind. The only corroboration of any accusation that Feldman has made in his documentary based on things that supposedly happened to him or Haim was the revelation that Dominick Brascia molested Haim. Feldman and Judy Haim have both said this. In all honesty, most of what Feldman presented would be laughed out of the court.
