By CBCNews.com
Los Angeles police have confirmed Canadian actor Corey Haim died at age 38 early Wednesday, apparently from an accidental drug overdose.
The LAPD said Haim was taken to a Burbank hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. local time, according to the L.A. coroner’s office.
Police said Haim had been living in an apartment in North Hollywood. His mother Judy was said to have been with him in the apartment, and she called 911.
Born in Toronto in 1971, Haim’s mother decided to enrol her son in acting classes as a way for him to get over his shyness.
His first professional job was in the 1984 movie Firstborn. He also had a continuing role in the 1980s CBC-TV series The Edison Twins, which ran from 1982 to 1986.
The actor won acclaim for his role in the 1986 movie Lucas, starring Winona Ryder and Charlie Sheen. He followed that up with a major role with his pal Corey Feldman in the vampire flick The Lost Boys in 1987.
Haim soon became a teen idol and snared parts in films such as License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream.
In recent years, he had admitted to problems with drug abuse, calling himself a “chronic relapser” and was trying to get his life and career on track.
Haim told Britain’s The Sun newspaper in 2004 that he had been in and out of rehab about 15 times.
“I lived in L.A. in the eighties, which was not the best place to be. I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack,” he said in the interview.
He also starred in the reality series The Two Coreys with Feldman from 2007 to 2008. He later said he would never do another reality TV series.
Feldman, who has also struggled with drug abuse and claims to be clean, said in 2008 that he had refused to talk to his buddy until he got sober.
“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 magazine in an August 2008 story.
Haim had begun working again as an actor, with roles in small films such as Shark City and the horror film New Terminal Hotel.
Haim had recently finished a film shot in New Brunswick called American Sunset.
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