Corey Feldman: Documentary, Movies, Wives, Net Worth, Haim

Few child stars carry their 1980s fame into every new chapter of their lives quite like Corey Feldman. The Stand by Me and The Lost Boys actor is back in the news with a 2025 documentary, Corey Feldman vs. The World, that returns the abuse allegations he first made years ago to the spotlight (Variety (film trade)).

Born: July 16, 1971, Reseda, Los Angeles (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)) ·
Decade as child star: 1980s ·
Known childhood films: Stand by Me, The Goonies, The Lost Boys ·
2025 documentary: Corey Feldman vs. The World (Variety) ·
Marriages: 2 (People (celebrity news)) ·
Music project: Ska band Truth Movement

The stable bio sheet — same dates, same credits — sharpens the contrast with the contested parts of Feldman’s story.

Is there a new documentary about Corey Feldman?

Yes. Corey Feldman vs. The World, directed by Marcie Hume, was released on Apple TV on December 11, 2025, according to People’s coverage (People (celebrity news)). Variety, the film industry’s trade paper, reported on the documentary’s central claim the same week (Variety (film trade)).

The project is not Feldman’s first documentary about abuse. His 2020 film My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys premiered in Los Angeles in March 2020 and included Feldman’s allegation that Charlie Sheen sexually assaulted Haim during production of Lucas. Sheen denied the allegation and called it “sick” at the time (People (celebrity news)).

What does Corey Feldman say about Corey Haim in the new documentary?

• The film’s central claim: Haim molested Feldman while they were making The Lost Boys; Feldman describes an alleged encounter in which Haim proposed sexual activity and invoked Charlie Sheen as having said it was acceptable (Variety (film trade)).
• Feldman says he agreed to meet Haim anyway, knowing what Haim allegedly wanted from the meeting (Variety (film trade)).

Entertainment Weekly, the entertainment magazine, framed the statement as a claim under review rather than a settled fact (Entertainment Weekly (entertainment magazine)). The allegation extends disclosures Feldman first made in other settings, including his 2013 memoir Coreyography.

The pattern: each new Feldman project resets the same allegation in the news cycle while the corroboration record stays exactly where it was.

The documentary cycle reinforces the same pattern: the claim remains an allegation, not a settled fact.

What movies was Corey Feldman in as a kid?

Feldman’s childhood filmography is the most verified part of his biography. He was one of the most visible young actors of the 1980s, moving between blockbusters, comedies, and coming-of-age classics.

Which 1980s films made Corey Feldman a child star?

• Early filmography: Gremlins and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), The Goonies (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and The Lost Boys (1987). Signature roles include Mouth in The Goonies, Teddy Duchamp in Stand by Me, and Edgar Frog in The Lost Boys (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).
• With Corey Haim, Feldman co-starred in The Lost Boys, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, and Blown Away (People (celebrity news)).

What part did Corey Feldman play in Stand by Me?

The part anchored his reputation as a serious young actor rather than a comedic sidekick. Profiles of Feldman reach for Stand by Me more than any other credit.

Did Corey Feldman have a music career?

What this means: Feldman’s filmography gives readers a stable map. The rest of his public life has to be read against it, or the proportions get distorted.

The filmography remains the bedrock of his biography, uncontested even among critics.

Did Corey Feldman go to Michael Jackson’s funeral?

Feldman and Michael Jackson had a long friendship that began when Feldman was a child actor (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)). The friendship has followed Feldman through every phase of his career.

What was Corey Feldman’s relationship with Michael Jackson?

• Feldman has said he attended a 2009 memorial service for Jackson.
• Accounts do not consistently document whether that was the public memorial or a private funeral.

The distinction matters because Jackson’s life and death remain contested territory. Feldman’s account is one of the most repeated, but the details are not standardized across sources.

The trade-off: Jackson is an association that guarantees Feldman attention, but it also drags every interview back to questions he has spent years trying to answer on his own terms.

Without consistent documentation, the Jackson chapter remains open-ended.

Did Corey Feldman ever marry?

Yes, twice. Feldman’s first wife was Vanessa Marcil; his second wife was Susie Sprague (People (celebrity news)). The marriage to Sprague began in 2002 and later ended in divorce.

Why did Corey Feldman’s wife leave him?

• Susie Sprague filed for divorce, and the filing became the public basis for the “why did she leave” question.
• Public filings show the marriage ended; the reasons beyond the filings remain private.

Neither Feldman nor Sprague has given a single public explanation that satisfies the tabloid version of the story. The question persists because the public record is thin.

How old was Drew Barrymore when she dated Corey Feldman?

Feldman has been public about the relationship, and he has spoken about it as part of his broader account of growing up inside Hollywood’s child-star system. By modern standards, the age gap reads as a red flag, and the story is usually told with that discomfort attached.

Why this matters: the relationship questions are not gossip for its own sake. They are part of Feldman’s larger argument that the industry failed the children it employed.

The private lives of childhood stars often become public puzzles with only fragments of documentation.

Why did Corey Feldman not attend Corey Haim’s funeral?

Feldman has said he did not attend because he was not invited. That remains the main public answer to a question fans still ask.

How did Corey Haim pass away?

• Haim died on March 10, 2010, at age 38, in Burbank, California; the official cause was pneumonia (People (celebrity news)).

Where was Corey Haim found dead?

• Burbank, California (People (celebrity news)).

How old would Corey Haim be if he were still alive?

• Haim was born December 23, 1971. He would have turned 54 in December 2025 (People (celebrity news)).

Why this matters: the funeral question is a proxy for the bigger one — what broke the two Coreys apart, and whether the answer died with Haim.

What did Corey Feldman get diagnosed with?

Feldman has been open about his mental-health history, but the details come from his own statements rather than independent records. Two diagnoses appear in most profiles.

How does Feldman describe his mental-health diagnosis?

• Feldman has said he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
• He has also discussed dissociative identity disorder (DID) in interviews.

He has connected both diagnoses to his childhood experiences and to the abuse he says he endured in the industry. The clinical detail and the timing of those diagnoses remain a private medical record.

The catch: a public diagnosis is not the same as a clinical record. Feldman’s testimony is the only source for this chapter of his biography, so reporting has to stay inside the frame of what he has said.

Why is Corey Feldman’s net worth so low?

No precise number exists. Net-worth estimates for Feldman are third-party calculations, and the range between outlets is part of the problem. None of them is an audited figure.

What is Corey Feldman’s net worth?

Celebrity-finance sites need a round number for every headline, so they produce one. Feldman’s own public statements point to causes rather than a specific total.

What affected Corey Feldman’s finances?

• Legal costs tied to his disclosures, advocacy, and related disputes.
• A reduced flow of mainstream acting roles after his child-star era.
• His ongoing commitment of time and money to music and activism, including Truth Movement.

Feldman has attributed his financial strain to those three factors. The result is a career that reads as far less lucrative than his peak fame would suggest.

The trade-off: Feldman converted his story into content — memoirs, documentaries, interviews — but that same story keeps him outside the mainstream casting system. Low net-worth estimates are the scoreboard of that trade.

The financial picture remains speculative, built from his own explanations and the estimates of outsiders.

Corey Feldman timeline: from child star to 2025

Dates in this timeline are the ones most consistently documented across Wikipedia, People, Variety, and Entertainment Weekly coverage.

What this means: the timeline lines up cleanly until 2010, and then the story turns from a joint biography into two separate fates.

Confirmed facts vs. open questions

Separating the documented biography from Feldman’s testimony is the core task of any accurate explainer.

Confirmed facts

• Feldman was born July 16, 1971, in Reseda, Los Angeles (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).
• His childhood filmography includes Gremlins, The Goonies, Stand by Me, and The Lost Boys (Wikipedia (open encyclopedia)).
• Corey Haim died March 10, 2010, at age 38 (People (celebrity news)).
• Corey Feldman vs. The World includes Feldman’s claim that Haim molested him during The Lost Boys (Variety (film trade)).
• Feldman has been married twice (People (celebrity news)).

What’s unclear

• Net-worth figures: estimates vary by outlet and are not audited.
• Which Michael Jackson service Feldman attended in 2009 is not consistently documented.
• The clinical context and timing of Feldman’s PTSD and DID statements rest on his own accounts.
• Independent corroboration of the documentary’s central allegation has not been established (Entertainment Weekly (entertainment magazine)).
• Whether new witnesses or responses will change the record around the two Coreys’ story.

The pattern: the verified facts stop exactly where Feldman’s personal testimony begins. Everything after that line is a claim, not a record.

What Feldman and the coverage say

Three voices matter most in the 2025 cycle: Feldman’s own, the outlets that cover him, and the ex-partner whose filing made his private life public record.

Feldman says Haim molested him while they were making The Lost Boys, an allegation that extends the abuse claims he has made in interviews and in his memoir.

Corey Feldman, in Corey Feldman vs. The World

Variety’s December 2025 report treated the documentary’s central claim as an allegation that returns Feldman’s earlier abuse disclosures to public view.

Variety, December 2025

Susie Sprague’s divorce filing ended Feldman’s second marriage and became the public record behind the recurring question of why his wife left him.

Susie Sprague, divorce filing

The pattern: Feldman’s story is carried by his own voice, the press that covers it, and the legal traces left by people who were close to him.

Where things stand

Feldman has spent more than a decade trying to turn his child-star history into a lever for accountability, and Corey Feldman vs. The World is his most visible attempt yet.

The documentary’s central allegation is news, but it is not new evidence: no investigation has ruled on it, no second witness steps forward in the film, and Haim cannot answer.

The documentary forces a reckoning, but only if the audience treats it as the beginning of an investigation, not the end.

Frequently asked questions

Feldman’s life story, for all its complexity, can only be understood by keeping the uncontested roles separate from the contested allegations.

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