As a true child of the 80’s I adored Corey Haim and Corey Feldman movies.  In fact, Dream a Little Dream goes down as one of my favorite movies from that era!  Naturally, when I found out about the show “The Two Coreys” premiering on A&E last year, I was excited.  No… make that… over the moon excited!  It was as if those two dropped off the face of the earth in the mid 90’s and then came back from nowhere.  Where had they been?  What had they been doing while they were in child-actor retirement?  What brought them back?

The first season was extremely funny and insightful.  It was hilarious to see neat-freak Feldman interract with unorganized, goofy Haim.  The magic was there and “The Two Coreys” quickly became my favorite reality television show that I tuned in to every Sunday night.

Of course, after the finale of last season, I didn’t even stand to hope that perhaps there would be a season two.  After Haim called Susie Feldman a b*tch, and Feldman was so angry he was going to punch his lights out… I figured there was no going forward for a long time.  Still, even if it was only meant to be a one season run, it was a good run!

Fast forward to the present season on A&E.  The two Coreys are back and this time they are in couple’s therapy trying to fix their relationship.  What we find out through the course of the second season that unlike the first season, this one is very dark and on a very different plateau all together.

At first, the viewer thinks that Haim and Feldman are going to work on their friendship.  Soon into the season, we find out that Haim is extremely messed up.  So many things are mentioned about past molestation, parental enabling of substance abuse, and in a nutshell… we find out why both men have managed to find themselves out of the spot light for so long.

Feldman is on the right track.  He seems to acknowledge that he has some issues but for the most part has it all together.  Haim on the other hand is on drugs.  I mean, we can see that he is clearly on something as his demeanor is so different from one episode to the next.  Either he has a borderline personality disorder complete with bipolar tendancies or he’s on something. I think he’s on something.

In one episode, Haim was on the Lost Boys 2 set and completely flubbed on his lines.  He was anxious, forgetful, and erratic.  The cameras caught sounds of snorting coming from his trailer.

Flash forward to the most recent two episodes… the Feldmans along with 2 other former child actors (Todd Bridges and Pauly Shore), staged an intervention for Haim.  Haim became angry and explosive and was not receptive in any way to the intervention.  Many angry tones and bleeps later and we are at a point where they are no longer friends.  In fact, Feldman has said that he will not be friends with Haim until he cleans up his act.

Haim is a lost boy in every sense of the word.  He’s had everyone try to intervene and help him realize his addiction, from his mother (acknowledging that he has a problem but blaming it on the doctors who write the prescriptions) to his assistant who in one instance told Haim that he almost killed them in a car about 30 times because he was falling asleep at the wheel.  Even Haim himself admitted that he had “slippy-jigs” sometimes in regards to drugs but that he in no way has a problem.

The whole world at this point (well… whoever watches the show that is)… recognizes that he has a problem.  Everyone it seems… but him.

It is sad to see one of my favorite former child stars fall even deeper into an abyss of drug addiction and denial.

It makes me wonder how many second chances he’ll get until everyone gives up on him for good… or until he becomes another statistic for drug overdose induced death.