Corey Haim Dies, Was Dating Daisy of Love: Which is More Tragic?
It has been revealed over the past few days, after the tragic death of child star Corey Haim, that he had recently opened a whole new chapter in his life. He was off all drugs that were not prescribed, had resurrected his acting career, and was thinking about settling down. He did a great job playing himself in the two seasons of The Two Coreys—a reality show that had an Oscar Madison-esque Haim move in with the Felix Unger-esque Corey Feldman and his wife. There were fights, there were tears, there was bonding. Feldman had already semi-revived his career by going on VH1’s The Surreal Life, during the filming of which he exchanged wedding rings with his now ex-wife Susie. It was a medieval-themed ceremony. Very dignified, as all reality TV weddings are.
But I digress.
Corey Haim's Shot at Sobriety
Having figured out how to get back into the public eye, he called on his friend and former constant co-star, Corey Haim, and, together, they starred in the A&E show The Two Coreys. It worked. Corey Haim got offered some movie jobs, although he was intermittently showing up under the influence of something. Lately, however, it seemed that he finally got his act together, starring in a few straight-to-video movies, the low-budget horror film American Sunset, and a bound-to-go-straight-to-video film called Decisions. In that film, it seemed that the acting chops that made him so famous in Lucas and The Lost Boys had somehow disappeared. Maybe it was the script. Who knows? But the scenes that have been released are not good, to say the least. Nonetheless, he was getting ready to direct and star in The Throwaways, a movie about homeless people who go missing. He had another directing-acting-producing project ready as well. He had roles lined up playing everything from a janitor to a chemical engineer.
But he was looking for love. He had given an engagement ring to horror-film scream queen Tiffany Shepis in October of 2008—the fourth he had distributed in his young life—but, alas, they split up before their scheduled May 2009 wedding. And the boy the every teenage girl had a crush on in the 80s was alone again. Then, for some reason—perhaps as revenge for all of the times Haim had embarrassed him by being wasted—Corey Feldman introduced him to VH1’s reigning skank, Daisy de la Hoya, reject from Bret Michaels’ Rock of Love and star of her own Daisy of Love. Daisy had also previously been linked to Dave Navarro and Tommy Lee. She gets the big “C”…for Classy!
According to Daisy, “Corey Feldman had been saying to me for ages that I had to meet Corey Haim, he said we were totally kindred spirits and that we would really hit it off”. I’m not sure which of the two should have been more insulted by that, but they met anyway. They had, evidently, an “automatic connection”. After Haim’s untimely death at age 38 over the weekend, Daisy was sure to express her sorrow as all normal people do: by tweeting it. “I’m sooooooo devastated right now. This is worst day ever I can’t believe this”. That’s 7 ‘o’s. She said that she would have liked “a happy ending”, having no doubt provided so many other men with just that.
The death of a young person is tragic. The death of a young person taking drugs as they were prescribed is even more tragic. Dating Daisy? Well, that’s a whole new level.