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In an intense interview on the Today show this week, former child star Corey Feldman defended his decision to start a crowd-funding campaign for $10 million in order to direct a film that will name the ring of child predators in Hollywood whom Feldman has long accused of molesting him and his friend, the late Corey Haim, among others.
Feldman posted a video on Twitter last week announcing his IndieGogo fundraiser with the purpose of raising $10 million that Feldman would use to finance and distribute a film that he now “vows” will name the names of these Hollywood pedophiles. The hefty price tag for the film would also go towards legal defense, as Feldman has long said that the only reason he hasn’t come forward is because he can’t afford to fight the lawsuits that would follow.
Feldman’s longstanding allegations about widespread child abuse and molestation happening within the Hollywood system have come back to light recently in the wake of sexual abuse scandals involving Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, among others.
Lauer was, perhaps typically, incredulous of why Feldman won’t just come forward with the names now, or hasn’t in the past. Feldman insisted he did tell Santa Barbara police back in 1993 when he was questioned regarding the Michael Jackson molestation investigation. Feldman continues to claim Jackson was innocent and that the police declined to pursue his accusations towards the other Hollywood predators. He also says he was going to name names in his 2013 memoir Coreyography, but “the publishers prevented me from writing the names down.”
Feldman says the film he wants to make won’t be a documentary but instead a narrative film that will nevertheless tell the true story of the abuse he experienced and witnessed:
“I want to make a feature film,” Feldman told Lauer, “which is why we need the budget that we need, there’s actors, there’s scripts, there’s special effects. […] It will be a very true story. We will have every name, everybody that affected my life, I’m going to give the perspective that I can give, what I viewed, what I experienced from a firsthand account.”
“I will release every single name that I have knowledge of,” Feldman vowed. “And nobody’s going to stop me this time, as long as people support this.”
