Charlie Sheen hits back after Corey Feldman names alleged predators in sex-abuse doco
The Two and a Half Men star said sex crime claims made in a controversial documentary by former 1980s child star Corey Feldman simply never happened.
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Hollywood star Charlie Sheen has totally rejected claims that he raped actor Corey Haim on the 1985 set of the film Lucas, describing the allegation by Corey Feldman as “sick, twisted and outlandish”.
Former 1980s Hollywood child star Feldman used a controversial documentary about his own alleged sexual abuse to make the claim against Sheen for allegedly raping his best friend, fellow child star Haim.
But Two and a Half Men star Sheen has furiously denied the claim.
“These sick, twisted and outlandish allegations never occurred. Period,” he said in a statement.
“I would urge everyone to consider the source and read what his mother Judy Haim has to say.”
Judy Haim, Corey Haim’s mother, has previously denied many times that Sheen was her son’s abuser.
Sheen also denied the allegations when they first emerged in 2017.
Haim, a Canadian, died at the age of 38 in 2010. The coroner ruled his death was caused by pneumonia.
Meanwhile, Feldman has vowed to have his controversial documentary shown around the world.
Feldman’s world premiere screening of the documentary My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys went ahead on Tuesday but a planned global online screening failed to proceed, with Feldman claiming “hackers’’ had interfered with it.
“These people will continue to shut us down but we will not be silenced,” Feldman told The Daily Telegraph after receiving a standing ovation from those inside the packed cinema at the Directors Guild of America in LA.
“We will continue to set times to live stream this film and get our truth out there. I am not surprised this happened.
“I have been stalked. My life and my family’s life has been threatened many times. I’ve been stabbed. Almost run over. And now hacked.”
Feldman’s documentary has been years in the making, funded personally and timed for release on the 10-year anniversary of Haim’s untimely death from pneumonia after years of drug addiction at the age of 38.
The film features explosive allegations that Sheen raped Haim, who was then aged 13, on the set of their 1986 film, Lucas.
Sheen was 19 at the time and has since strongly denied the allegations.
In the documentary, Feldman named three men he had previously accused of sexual abuse — Jon Grissom, an actor who had small roles in License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, nightclub owner Alphy Hoffman, and former talent manager Marty Weiss.
He also said Dominick Brascia, a former actor who died in 2018, had sexually abused Haim.
Grissom and Weiss have both denied the allegations.
Hoffman has not publicly addressed the allegations, according to US media reports.
The “hacking” came as a major blow to the film’s release, with Feldman adamant “dark forces” were at play to try and stop his truth being told.
Disney star Ricky Garcia appears in the film talking about his sexual abuse and also attended the premiere.
Known as “The two Coreys” in their 1980s heyday, Feldman claims he and Haim were sexually abused as young actors by powerful figures in Hollywood.
American journalist Ashley Hume, who was at the premiere screening, tweeted the documentary was paused when Feldman and his team found out the online version had been hacked.
At the #mytruthdoc premiere, @Corey_Feldman thanked the audience for coming out despite the coronavirus. Screening delayed due to technical difficulties with the website. pic.twitter.com/CScAO6PCsX
— Ashley Hume (@AshleyHume) March 10, 2020
Feldman appeared onstage at the theatre debating whether to proceed.
“You’re seeing it for yourself how people don’t want this to happen,” Rolling Stone writer Tim Chan quoted Feldman as saying in the theatre.
Earlier this week, Feldman claimed the documentary would include six names, including one he promised “everyone is waiting to hear”.
“It is a name that everybody on the planet knows,” he told US television host Wendy Williams.
Originally published as Charlie Sheen hits back after Corey Feldman names alleged predators in sex-abuse doco
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