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<div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Corey Feldman has no idea what it's like not to be famous. After all, he starred in a McDonald's ad when he was just 3 years old.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I literally was famous before I knew my own name," he said in an interview with ABC News' "Nightline."</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ad led to roles in films such as "Stand By Me," "Goonies" and "License to Drive." He was a household name before he could read.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I knew ... to respond to Corey, but I didn't know how to write it; I didn't know how to spell it," he said.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/abc_ntlprimetime_feldman_110810_wg.jpg" /></span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But being famous and underage, he said, caused serious damage to him and his friends, including loss of innocence and a lost childhood.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watch the full story on the "<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/celebrity_news/" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Primetime Nightline: Celebrity Secrets</a>" special "Underage and Famous," airing TONIGHT at 10/9c on ABC</span></strong></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feldman blamed the adults around him, not just those looking to profit from charming children, but also some with far more sinister motives.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That's the biggest problem for children in this industry. ... It's the big secret," Feldman said.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zLz2ndlFIf4?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div>
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  <div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "casting couch," which is the old Hollywood reference to actors being expected to offer sex for roles, applied to children, Feldman said. "Oh, yeah. Not in the same way. It's all done under the radar," he said.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. … Didn't even know it. It wasn't until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted … till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere," Feldman, 40, said.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The trauma of pedophilia contributed to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/corey-haims-reported-death-pulmonary-congestion/story?id=10077383" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">the 2010 death of his closest friend and "The Lost Boys" co-star, Corey Haim</a>, Feldman said.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="360" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./876/493/corey%20feldman%20then%202.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" width="640" /></span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There's one person to blame in the death of Corey Haim. And that person happens to be a Hollywood mogul. And that person needs to be exposed, but, unfortunately, I can't be the one to do it," Feldman said, adding that he, too, had been sexually abused by men in show business.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feldman said his realization followed the discovery of what some adults around him had allegedly done to other children. "There was a circle of older men … around this group of kids. And they all had either their own power or connections to great power in the entertainment industry," he said.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"></div> 
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Actor Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No.1 Problem for Movies Child Stars

Corey Feldman has no idea what it's like not to be famous. After all, he starred in a McDonald's ad when he was just 3 years old. ...

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Actor Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No.1 Problem for Movies Child Stars

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