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David Spade is reflecting on the early aughts.
While on his “Fly on the Wall” podcast with co-host Dana Carvey, the actor, 61, opened up about filming the 2003 comedy “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.”
The slapstick project, co-produced by Adam Sandler, saw Spade play a down on his luck former child actor.
In the movie, a slew of real life former kid stars appeared, including Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Barry Williams, Emmanuel Lewis, Danny Bonaduce and Leif Garrett. In one scene, all of the actors teamed up for a musical number.
“Corey Haim, remember him?” Spade asked Carvey, 70. “He’s Corey Feldman’s buddy. Super sweet. Walking to lunch from the soundstage after singing, I’m in my outfit and he goes, ‘Hey, hey, thanks for having me… Uh, hey, I was going to go off campus and eat.’ [He then asked], ‘Do we get a per diem for today?’”
The “Grown Ups” actor said he wasn’t, to which Haim, who died at age 38 in 2010, asked if Spade would be able to pay him.
Spade recalled telling him: “‘I don’t think I’m the one that gives you your per diem.’ And he goes, ‘But I need some ’cause I want to go get lunch.’ He goes, ‘You got 100 bucks or something? I could just go get lunch?’ And I f—in’ did it.”
At the time, Haim had a bad substance abuse problem, which Spade was aware of.
“I swear at the time it didn’t even hit me that he might go use or something,” he continued. “And he probably didn’t, but I was like, ‘Was that stupid? Was that f—ing dumb of me?’”
Spade added that “the parents a lot of the time, not all the time, a lot of times the parents are, like, spending the money. They’re like, ‘Hey, you’re my kid. It’s my money.’ And then when they’re 18, they’re like, ‘Back up that Brinks truck!’ And they’re like, ‘The thing is, there’s not a ton left.’”
Haim died from pneumonia in 2010, during his addiction. He passed away at his and his mother, Judy Haim’s Burbank apartment.
The “Lost Boys” alum had been sick during the last week of his life with flu-like symptoms.
Despite his addiction, no illegal drugs were found inside the apartment, per authorities.
Haim’s mother told RadarOnline at the time that she was battling cancer.
“I am a cancer victim and Corey was helping me at home,” Judy said. “He was a good boy. I’m devastated by his death.”
Feldman, 54, who starred in several movies and a reality television series with Haim, wrote about the loss of his “brother” on his blog.
“This is a tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family, and best friend,” the “DWTS” alum penned in 2010. “We must all take this as a lesson in how we treat the people we share this world with while they are still here to make a difference.”
In 2024, Nicole Eggert reflected on the ups and downs of her relationship with Haim, which lasted for two years from 1991 to 1993.
The pair also starred in several movies together, including “Blown Away” in 1992 and “Anything for Love” in 1993.
Eggert, 53, told People that while she loved being around Haim on set, behind closed doors, things became “heavy.”
“It was scary to me. It was creepy,” she remembered. “I remember the first time I ever saw cocaine was from him, but he wasn’t trying to get me to do anything with him. It was his own private thing, which in hindsight would feel a little bit strange, but he was never trying to drag me into that.”
The two also had a short-lived engagement, with Eggert sharing: “He proposed and we were working. We were on set, everything was so fun.”
However, most of their time together evolved around Haim’s addiction.
Eggert recalled taking the ’80s star to the hospital because she didn’t know what to do when he ran out of drugs.
“He’d go there [the hospital] to get stuff,” she admitted. “When we’d be on set, producers supply it; they’d supply drugs, and prescriptions mostly is what I saw. But no, if he was having the shakes and freaking out in the middle of the night and wanted to go to the emergency room, I’d take him. Because I wasn’t in that head space or in that — I didn’t know what to do. I was like, just take him to the hospital if that’s where he wants to go.”
After moving in together, Eggert realized how Haim spent his free time. She “quickly” realized she “had to wash my hands of” the romance.
“We came back to L.A., and he didn’t have a place because he’d been on the road filming and stuff, so I let him come stay with me at my place,” Eggert went on. “And then that’s when I saw the real behavior and the real darkness. And I couldn’t live with it, and I couldn’t condone it or support it or anything like that. That’s when I really saw the darkness.”
After she cut ties, they kept in touch “here and there.”
“I would always consider him a friend forever,” she detailed. “And I think he’d say the same.”