RECENTLY, ELIJAH WOOD REENTERED THE CONVERSATION, OR
REIGNITED THE CONVERSATION ABOUT PEDOPHILIA IN HOLLYWOOD,
WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING YOU OFTEN HEAR ABOUT.
AS A RESULT, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER DECIDED TO DO AN
INTERVIEW WITH COREY FELDMAN, WHO HAS BEEN VERY OPEN
ABOUT THE FACT THE PEDOPHILIA EXIST IN HOLLYWOOD AND HAS
NOT BEEN DEALT WITH.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, COREY HAIN, GOOD FRIEND OF HIS,
WHO DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE, WAS ALSO A VICTIM OF GETTING
RAPED WHEN HE WAS A CHILD BY MEMBERS OF THE INDUSTRY.
IT IS UNCLEAR WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE, NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN NAMED,
AND COREY FELDMAN, WHO HAS BEEN OPEN ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES,
ALSO REFUSES TO NAME NAMES.
HE WAS QUESTIONED ABOUT THIS, AND THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
HAS THE ANSWERS.
GO WITH ME, THERE WERE SOME OF THE STATIONS AND IT DID
COME FROM SEVERAL HANDS, SO TO SPEAK.
BUT WITH COREY, HIS WAS DIRECT WEIGHT; WHEREAS MINE WAS
NOT ACTUAL RAPE.
HIS OCCURRED WHEN HE WAS 11.
MY SON IS 11 NOW AND I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO FATHOM
SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENING TO HIM" I WANT TO COMMENT THAT
IT IS REALLY INTERESTING THAT COREY FELDMAN IS
DOWNPLAYING HIS OWN HORRIFIC EXPERIENCES.
ANY TYPE OF PHYSICAL CONTACT THAT IS UNWANTED IS
SOMETHING THAT ANYONE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED BY.
AND I GET WHAT HE IS SAYING, MAYBE HE WASN'T PENETRATED
BY SOMEONE, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT IS STILL SOMETHING THAT HE
SHOULD TAKE SERIOUSLY AND SHOULD SPEAK OUT ABOUT AS MUCH AS
HE POSSIBLY CAN SO PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE SAME POSITION
NOTICE BE GOUT, AND NOTED DESERVING ABOUT IT, AND NOT
HIDE IN THE SHADOWS LIKE A LOT OF VICTIMS DO.
I THINK IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT INSTINCTIVE, THOSE WERE
BROUGHT UP IN THIS HOLLYWOOD LIGHT, THEY ARE TRAINED TO
ANSWER THINGS THAT WAY, AND PROTECT THE SENSITIVE HOLLYWOOD.
WE SEE ELIJAH WOOD, HE MADE THOSE COMMENTS, AND THEN
RIGHT AWAY ON TWITTER HE SAID I NEVER EXPERIENCED IT
FIRSTHAND, BUT WE HAVE SEEN SO MANY EXAMPLES, WE HAVE SEEN
SO MANY CASES WHERE IT'S INVOLVED IN HOLLYWOOD IN
POSITIONS OF POWER, SOMEONE WAS THE ABILITY TO USE THEIR NAME
OR THE WEIGHT OF HOLLYWOOD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOMEONE ELSE.
I THINK THAT DID COME ACROSS AS ALARMING TO ME BECAUSE IT WAS,
LIKE HE WAS PLAYING DOWN THE MOLESTATION OF HIMSELF AS A WAY
TO, NOT AS MUCH JUST THROW HOLLYWOOD AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE
WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED COMPLETE THE OTHER THE BUS STRAIGHT AWAY.
I THINK THAT WILL SPEAK VOLUMES ABOUT HOW PEOPLE WILL REACT TO
HOLLYWOOD, IT'S ñ PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO COME OUT UNTIL THE FULL
TRUTH IS OUT BECAUSE IT MIGHT JEOPARDIZE THEIR REPUTATION.
THIS STARTUP ñ THIS STAR-STUDDED ENVIRONMENT IS THE BE-ALL
AND ALL, EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A PART OF IT, BUT PEOPLE USE
IT FOR THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE.
IF DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN IN HOLLYWOOD BY THE WAY, WE
HAD A CASE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THERE WAS A RADIO
AND TV PERSONALITY WHO USED HIS NAME AND THE WEIGHT OF HIS
CHARACTER TO TRY TO LURE PEOPLE INTO COMPROMISED SITUATIONS.
SO I'M NOT SURPRISED THAT HIS CLAIMS, AND NOT SURPRISED
AT HIS REACTION AS WELL.
I AM SURPRISED.
I THINK IT'S ODD TO QUALIFY CHILD MOLESTATION, BUT I
THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD ñ
VIDEO BUFFERING ñ
VARIATIONS OF COREY FELDMAN'S STORY.
THIS IS A RANDOM THING ABOUT ME, I AM A BIZARRE, BIG COREY
HAIN, COREY FELDMAN FAN.
I FOLLOWED HIS CAREER IN KIND OF A WEIRD, YOU CAN'T LOOK
AWAY SORT OF FASCINATION.
HE'S A VERY FASCINATING GUY, HE HAD THIS INCREDIBLE CAREER, BOTH
THE COREY'S DID, AND THEN THESE TRAIN WRECKS, AND YOU CAN
TIE IT TO THESE STORIES.
BUT WHEN THE STORIES CAME OUT, HE'S JUST THIS CHARACTER
AND I DON'T THINK PEOPLE TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY.
I DON'T THINK ñ I WORRY THAT HE'S A LAUGHINGSTOCK SO NO
ONE IS REALLY LISTENING.
I DON'T FOLLOW HIM AS CLOSELY AS YOU DO ñ
NO ONE COULD.
I THINK WHAT DOES HURT HIM TO SOME EXTENT IS THE FACT
THAT HE REFUSES TO NAME NAMES.
NOW THAT HE HAS NAMED ñ SAID WHY, IT MAKES SENSE.
HE SAYS, "I'M NOT ABLE TO NAME NAMES.
PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED, PEOPLE ARE ANGRY, THEY WANT TO
KNOW HOW IS THIS HAPPENING AND THEY WANT ANSWERS AND THEY
TURNED TO ME AND THEY SAY, WILL YOU BE A MAN AND STAND UP
AND NAME NAMES AND STOP HIDING AND BEING A COWARD?"
THEN HE RAISES A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT COULD BE
RELEVANT TODAY, ESPECIALLY WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE BILL
COSBY CASES.
HE SAYS, "CALIFORNIA CONVENIENTLY ENOUGH HAS A
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS THAT PREVENTS THAT FROM HAPPENING.
BECAUSE IF I WERE TO GO AND MENTION ANYBODY'S NAME I
WOULD BE THE ONE THAT WOULD BE LEGAL PROBLEMS AND I'M THE
ONE THAT WOULD BE SUED."
I THINK THAT IS REALLY RELEVANT, BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE
WILL ASK ñ LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BILL COSBY CASE.
MORE THAN 50
WOMEN HAVE COME FORWARD, BUT IN THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE
CASES THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS RUN OUT.
AS A RESULT, THESE WOMEN WHO ARE TRYING TO WAYS ñ
RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM, THEY HAVE
NOTHING TO GAIN, ARE BEING OSTRACIZED AND CRITICIZED.
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HAVE A TRIAL, AND YOU CAN'T INVESTIGATE
BILL COSBY.
JESUS SAYING HE DOESN'T WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT.
I GET IT, I GET HIS REASONING.
AT THE SAME TIME, IF YOU DON'T NAME NAMES, NO ONE REALLY HAS A
WARNING ABOUT THESE INDIVIDUALS THAT MIGHT BE PART OF HOLLYWOOD.
I THINK HE KNOWS THAT IF HE CAME FORWARD AND NAME THE
NAMES, THIS WOULD BE A GUY WHO, IT WOULD BE REALLY EASY TO
DRAG HIM THROUGH THE MUD.
HE IS AN ODDBALL, AND WHILE THAT MAKES HIM A COMPELLING
FIGURE, IT DOESN'T HELP HIM IF HE WERE TO NAME NAMES.
I AGREE WITH YOU, IT BRINGS UP THE ISSUE OF THE STATUTE OF
LIMITATIONS AND IT'S FRUSTRATING.
THERE IS NO RIGHT ANSWER.
MAYBE I'M MISSING SOMETHING, THERE SHOULD NOT BE A STATUTE OF
LIMITATIONS ON ISSUES INVOLVING RAPE OR MURDER.
IN CRIMINAL CASES THERE SHOULD NOT BE A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.
IF SOMEONE BREAKS SOMEONE 25
YEARS AGO, IT DOESN'T CHANGE THAT BEHAVIOR.
IT WAS UNLAWFUL BEHAVIOR AND THEY SHOULD BE PROSECUTED TO THE
FULLEST OF THE LAW.
COREY FELDMAN AND COREY HAIN WERE CHILDREN WHEN THEY
WERE RAPED.
WHAT WERE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO, TALK TO PROSECUTORS?
THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON, OR IF WHAT WAS
HAPPENING TO THEM WAS RIGHT OR WRONG.
YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE PROPER PROTECTIONS IN
PLACE SO THAT THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING SOME THING WRONG
CAN BE INVESTIGATED AND PROSECUTED.
THE SAME EXCUSES ARE FED TO THESE KIDS WHEN THEY ARE
YOUNG, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE CAUGHT UP IN A MEDIA CIRCUS.
THERE WAS THE SAME THING WITH THAT CASE I TOLD YOU ABOUT
IN THE UK, AND IT WAS 30 YEARS LATER THAT A WOMAN CAME FORWARD
AND SAID, I WAS TOLD WHEN I WAS THAT AGE, YOU DON'T WANT TO GET
CAUGHT UP IN THE MEDIA CIRCUS, BECAUSE YOU'RE FIGHTING AGAINST
AN ESTABLISHMENT THAT HAS THIS ALMOST CEREMONIAL SIDE TO IT.
IT REMINDS ME A LITTLE BIT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND
THE WAY THAT WE ARE SO INGRAINED IN THAT CULTURE.
THE PRIESTS INVOLVED ARE SO PROTECTED.
THOSE WHO ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALMOST FEEL LIKE THEY
ARE NEVER GOING TO WIN.
IN HOLLYWOOD, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO WIN AGAINST AN ESTABLISHMENT
THAT HAS BEEN BUILT FOR YEARS?
HALF OF THESE CASES, BY THE WAY, THIS WILL ALSO TRICKLE OVER
TO WHY MENTAL HEALTH IS SUCH A BIG ISSUE.
IN HOLLYWOOD WE OFTEN JUST JUMP
WHATEVER MEANS POSSIBLE, AND PEOPLE WILL SEE THAT, TAKE
THAT AS A GREEN LIGHT TO GO AND TAKE ADVANTAGE.
THAT'S WHY WHEN THEY FEEL THEY'RE GOING TO FIGHT
AGAINST HOLLYWOOD, THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO WIN UNTIL MORE
PEOPLE SPEAK UP AND BRING IT TO LIGHT.