LOS ANGELES (AP) — Corey Haim died Wednesday at 38, another chapter in Hollywood’s tragic history of careers ravaged by drugs.
Haim died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, His mother called paramedics after he collapsed while getting out of bed at his apartment.
Haim started working in TV commercials at 10 and was a big-screen heartthrob at 15. The star of 1987’s “The Lost Boys” discovered drugs while making that movie.
“I was working on ‘Lost Boys’ when I smoked my first joint,” he told the British tabloid The Sun in 1994. “I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack.”
Haim said he went into rehab and was put on prescription drugs. In 2007, he told ABC’s “Nightline” that drugs hurt his career.
“I wasn’t functional enough to work for anybody, even myself,” he said. “I wasn’t working.”
Haim had returned to the spotlight in recent years, appearing in the A&E reality TV show “The Two Coreys” with “Lost Boys” co-star Corey Feldman. The show was canceled in 2008 after two seasons. Feldman later said Haim’s drug abuse strained their working and personal relationships.
Haim was ill with flulike symptoms before his death, and police said he was taking over-the-counter and prescription medications.
An autopsy will determine his cause of death. There was no evidence of foul play.
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