For years Corey Feldman has claimed that he was sexually molested by several older men when he was just a child actor. He also says that thousands of other child actors were molested, and he is finally ready to name names. Last week, he started an IndieGoGo campaign to raise $10 million to make the film, The Truth Campaign, doing just that.
Today he was on Today and he explained why he is making the feature film and not going to the police. Back in 1993, when he was being questioned in Santa Barbara during the Michael Jackson case, he named names but he says they did not do anything about it. He also wants it to be known that Michael Jackson is not one of his molesters.
It sounds like he will also need the money to hire a team of lawyers and bodyguards to protect him. Lawyers because anyone he names will most likely sue him, and bodyguards because he claims that he has already getting death threats.
Which is why people do not come out and name their assailants. They have more money and power and if you do come forward they will do everything they can to destroy you. It is when that one person finally comes forward and they are safe afterwards, that other people can finally come free. That is what happened with Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, Harvey Weinstein and so on. We need to make everyone feel that the victims should not be imprisoned. It is their sexual assaulters and harassers that should be imprisoned or fired or shamed. This is not just a Hollywood problem, it happens all over the world. The first time it happened to me, was in a NYC deli. We just don’t care as much about the Walmart manager in Kansas doing it, but we should.
Thank you to all the people that are coming out and bringing down their attackers. Hopefully, the tide will change and victims will be allowed to speak out without backlash. The only people who should feel the backlash are the criminals.
When it comes to Feldman, I hope he gets his money and finally names the names he has been saying he is going to name. Enough is enough.
