Name: Former Child Star Corey Feldman Opens Up About His Childhood | California Live | NBCLA
Uploaded: 2020-03-16T22:51:48.000Z
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One of the most famous kids in the world and you don't have a personal photo of yourself.

I mean, there's lots of photos out there.

More of a question of Do I have those family memories, those family memories that everybody goes, their uncles of their answer, their grand parents.

And they have that family yearbook or whatever.

My mom didn't collect those things, But a lot of that goes along with the systemic abuse that I went through as a kid because I was very abused.

But also, I went through sexual abuse, all these different things in the industry.

Which is why I ended up really doing the show in the first place, not just to deal with those issues with my brother, but also because I needed funding to finish my documentary to help expose the truth, which is all the bigger mission that I've been working on for the last few years.

You said you started working when you were three.

To be honest, I never had freedom is a kid.

Ah, Lot of times I was locked in a room with a record player and they would say, Don't come out.

A lot of people don't know this, but I started singing before I started acting.

Because that was how I could get auditions.

Because there's a three year old you can't like.

So how do you prove that you're worthy to be Castor?

That you could be professional and you could have memorization skills and all that kind of stuff.

So what they do is, you know, they need to see you perform in some way.

So my parents would lock me in a room that give me a record that give me a record player.

And they say, Don't come out until you know the song backwards and forwards.

And then if they thought I was eating too much, I wouldn't be allowed to eat if I hurt myself.

or I scraped myself up, I would get beaten for scraping myself up for injury myself.

So I mean, it was literally like a slave child.

And you were doing all this while you were working.

You were working kid breadwinner in the house and going to school and going that well myself started working before I did.

Which is why it's so important for my brother eaten to get some healthy nourishment out of all of this, too, because, unfortunately, he was also abused.

But a lot of people don't realize his story.

He also went through all of this pain and tumultuous life as a child, and so did each of our family members.

But my sister, you know who was in the Mickey Mouse Club?

She went on and kind of was able to let it lead a normal life after this.

Um, I wasn't because I was too famous at that point to go backwards.

My brother never got that famous, but then he was living also in the shadow of having a famous brother and a famous sister, and now He's the third in line and all this pressure of, like, how come you're not making as much as they did?

Yeah, you know, it's just it's sick and it's wrong and it shouldn't be that way where your parents now they're around there around.

But I also have to say that they're not responsible.

I mean, I guess they are partially responsible because they didn't protect me better.

But they weren't the ones who abused me sexually.

I was abused at the hands of people that they brought into my life.

So again, not just not being good parents but not paying attention to who's around.

That's a big thing is kids go on these sets, and if they don't have you know their parent with them or they're guarding with them at all times.

They go off with some assistant or some makeup guy or some ah, manager, publicist, photographer who knows, You know, the point is, is that you should be with your kids all the time, but we are working on laws to change this, so two things I really want to make sure come off, which is number one that the reason why we did the show in the first place was to make enough you know, capital so that I could put it right back into my documentary, which is almost finished, and we're looking for distribution, and that's very important because it's going to expose a lot of what happened and the systemic abuse, as it happens throughout the process in Hollywood.

But then also the most important part of all this is changing the laws so that we can reverse the statute of limitations.

Right now, the good news is there is a law that has been passed in the House and in the Senate, and it's sitting right now on Governor Newsome's desk, and we've got three days left Governor Newsome for you to sign that law into action.

It's got to be signed by October 13th and what this will do is create a three year look back window.

It's called California Abie to 18 and it will create a three year look back windows so that all cases prior to 2017 will have a chance at being heard in civil court, so it leads to give victims a chance of justice that they've never had.

And you talked about being on the show partly to make the money.

Thio have some publicity to get your message out.

Well, let's talk about what happens on the way in the documentary.

So let's talk about what happened on the show, where you are you on the show to kind of work out these demons in your life and with your brother, Not my demons, but my brother, you know, again because he has never had the opportunity to do anything like this.

You know, he never really went through therapy.

Ah, he's never been under a public microscope.

He's never really been on television much since he was an adult.

So this was an opportunity for the two of us to have some time together with, you know, licensed therapist, which we're told we're gonna handle it very respectfully and and they were going to do things the right way.

So we're putting a lot of faith and we TV that they do this the right way, and they do this in a classy way so it doesn't cause further disruption or for the drama in the lives of the people that are going there for therapy.

And what kind of stuff will we see on the show with the drama?

Are you going to delve into Michael Jackson?

No, because there was no drama with me and Michael.

I can't speak for Michael's relationship with other people.

I know my, uh, Aaron himself has said that he also had a good relationship with Michael, but Aaron and I got along very well on the show.

And then recently I've seen all this stuff that he's been kind of spouting out talking all yeah, easy stuff or whatever, So I don't know what's going on with him right now, but I wish him the best.

I feel really bad for what he's going through right now.

I don't know exactly what sparked all of this or why he's doing it, but I feel like It's a cry for help, so I just want him to know that I'm here for him.

I love him like a brother, and I just want him to get a peaceful resolution to all of his problems.

And we know there's a lot coming up on the show.

I'm in Los Angeles, so everybody tune in for the first episode.

Okay, everyone, just like Corey said again, Thank you so much for sharing your story.

You gotta watch his show marriage boot camp family addition.

It premieres tomorrow on we TV Blessed Peace Kids, too.