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Corey Haim Dead at 38 - 3/10/2010
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former 1980s teen movie actor and heartthrob Corey Haim died early Wednesday, authorities said.Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. PT (5:15 a.m. ET), Los Angeles County Coroner's spokeswoman Lt. Cheryl MacWillie told CNN. The hospital is a mile from Haim's apartment. A 9-1-1 call came in just before 1 a.m. PT (4 a.m. ET), said police Sgt. William Mann.
Los Angeles police Sgt. Frank Albarran said Haim's death appears to be accidental, and may be due to an overdose.
But "the cause of death at this time is unknown," Mann said. "He had flu-like symptoms before the incident. His mother was giving him various over-the-counter medications."
"We do not think this is a drug overdose," Haim's agent, Mark Heaslip, told CNN's sister network HLN. "Corey was actually going very clean in his life."
Haim had struggled with drug abuse in recent years, but Heaslip said he was attempting to wage a comeback and had signed several contracts, including a reality show.
Haim was not feeling well Tuesday night, and was running a low-grade fever, he said. He went into his mother's bedroom and asked her to lie down by him, Heaslip said. He told his mother he was having trouble breathing, and his mother told him to roll on his side, he said. He began to feel better, but at midnight he woke his mother by walking around the bedroom, and then collapsed.
Asked if news of Haim's death comes as a surprise, Heaslip said, "100 percent." He said the death could have come as a reaction to medication Haim was taking as part of his sobriety program. The actor was under the care of his doctor, who visited him Tuesday night, as well as an addictionologist, Heaslip said. An addictionologist is a doctor who specializes in treating addictions.
Haim's mother's condition was "horrible," he told HLN. "She's a wreck."
The coroner's office has taken possession of Haim's body, MacWillie said.
Haim's most famous role was in the 1987 movie "The Lost Boys," in which he appeared with his frequent co-star, Corey Feldman. Haim played the role of a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire.
In later years, the two friends -- who appeared in eight movies together -- both struggled with drug abuse and went their separate ways. They reunited for a reality show, "The Two Coreys," in 2007, but A&E Network canceled the program after slightly more than a year.
In a 2007 interview on CNN's "Larry King Live," Haim and Feldman both discussed their battles with drugs. Feldman told King that he had gotten clean, but it took Haim a while longer.
Haim called himself "a chronic relapser for the rest of my life."
"I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything," he said. "I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently."
He told King that he also had lost more than 150 pounds while getting sober.
"I didn't like looking in the mirror anymore," Haim said. "I couldn't do it ...See, I hit about, my peak, about 302 (pounds) ...And now I'm back to 150."
In 2008, Feldman told People magazine that he would no longer speak to Haim until Haim got sober. In a clip from "The Two Coreys," Feldman and his wife, along with two other former teen stars, called on Haim in an effort to get him to admit he needed help, the magazine said.
The meeting followed an incident in which Haim -- scheduled to film a cameo appearance in a direct-to-DVD sequel to "The Lost Boys" -- appeared on the set "clearly under the influence," People reported.
"I don't feel that he's a safe person to have around my wife and child at the moment, for a multitude of reasons," Feldman told People. Haim told the magazine in the August 2008 story that he was currently sober and said, "I will always love Corey Feldman, but I lost 105 percent respect for him and his wife."
Christopher Ameruoso, a photographer who lives in the Oakwood Apartments complex, told CNN Wednesday that Haim had been his neighbor for at least a year. He said he last saw Haim two days ago getting into a taxi.
"He looked good," he said. "He's putting on a lot of weight."
He said Haim could sometimes be seen wandering around the complex, "looking for companionship, looking for friends."
Haim was born December 23, 1971 in Toronto, Canada, according to a biography on his Web site. He made his first television appearance in 1982 on the Canadian series, "The Edison Twins." His first film role was in 1984, when he appeared in the American movie "First Born."
Haim also won rave reviews for his role in the 1986 film, "Lucas," in which he played the title role. Film critic Roger Ebert said of him at the time, "If he continues to act this well, he will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor."
Following "The Lost Boys," both Haim and Feldman appeared in "License to Drive" and "Dream a Little Dream."
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