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Before Corey Feldman's documentary was released, Corey Haim's sister begged people not to watch it.

 

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Corey Haim’s sister, Cari, says she does not believe Corey Feldman’s claim Charlie Sheen raped her brother in the 1980s, when he was just 13.

In his pay-per-view documentary, My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys, Feldman named the men who were allegedly involved in the abuse of the Two Coreys.

He alleged that Corey Haim – who died of pneumonia in 2010 – was raped by Charlie Sheen on the 1985 set of Lucas, when Sheen was 19 and Haim was 13.

The trailer for My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys. Post continues below video.

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“This wasn’t like a one time thing he said in passing. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, by the way, this happened.’ He went into great detail,” a crying Feldman said in the documentary.

The allegation against Sheen is not new. In 2017, Sheen denied the allegation and has done so once again following the documentary.

“These sick, twisted and outlandish allegations never occurred. Period. I would urge everyone to consider the source and read what his mother Judy Haim has to say,” he said in a statement released through a publicist.

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Along with Feldman, his ex-wife Susie Sprague and The Lost Boys actor Jamison Newlander also said in My Truth that Haim had told them about the incident.

Ahead of the documentary’s premiere, Haim’s older sister Cari, a screenwriter and specialist teacher for the deaf, begged the public not to watch it. In a series of tweets on February 13, she claimed it contained false claims.

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“I sincerely feel badly for him – he is so damaged. But he should talk about his own experience only,” she wrote.

“If he knows of criminal activity, he should reveal names, without thought of compensation. It’s a lie that my brother ‘asked him to reveal the story if I die first’. Revisionist history.

“My brother died of pneumonia — did not know he would die. He and CF were not friends for many years when he died. Please, people, save your $.”

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In the documentary, Feldman said Haim told him Sheen raped him between two trailers in broad daylight while filming Lucas.

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Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. Image: Getty.

Later in February, Cari shared that she and Charlie Sheen flirted at the time Lucas was in production in a now-deleted tweet.

Responding to a Twitter thread asking people's most surreal celebrity encounters, she said Sheen was one of her first kisses.

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"He wasn't so freaky then, so it was all good," she wrote.

Cari and her mother Judy have always believed Sheen was innocent and believe Haim's real rapist was actor Dominick Brascia, who died in 2018 after giving an interview to the National Inquirer the year before in which he alleged Sheen was the abuser.

The Wrap reported Judy Haim learned Sheen was named in Feldman's documentary before it aired, and in late February she emailed Sheen's publicist.

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Corey and Judy Haim in 2007. Image: Getty.
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"I feel that this is a huge accusation without any proof and without my kid being here to defend himself," Judy wrote, the publication reported.

Judy Haim said the alleged rape "never happened or else I would have known about it" and said she felt Feldman "lost his mind".

"The horrible thing is he thinks this is a great way to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of my son's death."

The streaming of My Truth was marred by technical issues and 'hacking', meaning fans who paid about AU$30 to watch the documentary at 2pm AEDT were left refreshing their browsers. Only a select group of friends and media saw the film on its premiere date, at its Los Angeles screening.

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On Wednesday, Feldman made the film available on a loop for 24 hours so everyone who wanted to watch would have a chance to do so.

The other alleged abusers include Feldman's former personal assistant Jon Grissom, who had small roles in the Two Coreys films License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, Alphy Hoffman, who owned an 80s nightclub for underage child actors called Soda Pop Club, and Corey Haim's former talent manager Marty Weiss.

Grissom and Weiss have both denied the allegations in the past. Hoffman has not publicly addressed the claims.

Los Angeles Times article confirmed Marty Weiss, Corey Haim's previous talent manager, was sentenced to one year in prison in 2012 for committing lewd acts on a child aged under 14. He was released after six months.

The new names Feldman accused were Alphy Hoffman's late casting director father Bobby Hoffman and former actor Dominick Brascia, who died in 2018.

Sheen's representation said "no decision has been made at this time" on whether the former Two and a Half Men star would pursue legal action following the documentary.

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