Corey Feldman to Hollywood sex predators: ‘Change is coming and it is coming fast and hard’
Corey Feldman speaks candidly to Sydney Confidential’s Johnathon Moran about changes in Hollywood in light of new laws to protect children from sexual abuse.
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Corey Feldman has warned of a domino effect against sexual predators in Hollywood who have been able to escape justice following the enactment of new laws in California to extend the amount of time victims have to file a lawsuit against childhood sexual abusers.
“Change is coming and it is coming fast and hard,” Feldman told Confidential.
“This is basically going to be like a game of domino’s. My feeling is that the studios that are connected to the people who did these things are all going to be liable when things happen on movie sets, when things happen on TV sets, and much like the Catholic Church, there is going to be giant payouts. Things are about to change dramatically.”
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Feldman, along with Child USA, has been instrumental in the push for changes in California law, which come into effect in January.
The now 48-year-old former child star and filed a report to the Los Angeles Police Department in 2017 about his childhood assault allegations but was told the statute of limitations had run out, which would now not be the case.
It is not yet clear whether or not he will be able to file a new police report.
He is however working on a documentary to be released on February 22 that will detail his abuse and his claims of routine abuse in Hollywood.
“I would say that it is my life’s mission,” said Feldman, who appeared in films including The Goonies, Gremlins and Stand By Me. “It is something that was chosen for me. I didn’t choose this, this was chosen for me the day that Corey Haim told me his secret when we met when we were both 15 years old. That day changed my life forever because that became a secret I had to hold on to for 30 years and along with that secret I also had to hold on to the fact that it started happening to me and then I had to hold on to secrets, that is very tormenting to the soul.”
Haim, with whom Feldman appeared in The Lost Boys in 1987, was also a victim of child sexual abuse in Hollywood and died tragically at the age of 38 in 2010.
“Now the laws are working in our favour and once the laws are working in our favour, we can bring forward evidence and we can bring forward truth,” he said. “If you are a good person and you are exposing the truth, they are never going to win because good always wins over evil and that is just the way it goes. Children need to be protected because this is a time that is a revolution in history, this is the first time there has been a children’s rights movement.”