{"id":415713,"date":"2010-03-11T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=96137"},"modified":"2010-03-11T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:00:52","slug":"corey-haim-courted-for-%e2%80%9ccelebrity-rehab%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9ccelebrity-fit-club%e2%80%9d-in-months-leading-up-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/415713","title":{"rendered":"Corey Haim Courted For \u201cCelebrity Rehab\u201d &amp; \u201cCelebrity Fit Club\u201d In Months Leading Up To Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/115365_corey-haim-in-character-as-a-college-student-in-a-promotional-portrait-for-the-television-series-roomies-1986.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Corey Haim On Celebrity Fit Club &amp; Celebrity Rehab\" width=\"457\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-96138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former &#8217;80s teen idol Corey Haim was approached by VH1\u2019s <em>Celebrity Rehab<\/em> and <em>Celebrity Fit Club<\/em> during the last few weeks of his life.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-96137\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old <em>Lost Boys<\/em> star died at a Burbank, California hospital on Wednesday morning after his cancer-stricken mother found the actor unresponsive in their Los Angeles apartment.<\/p>\n<p>While Haim scoffed at the chance to compete on a season of <em>Celebrity Fit Club<\/em>, TV addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky has opened up about his attempts to persuade the former A&#038;E reality star to get help for his drug problems, which spanned nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Drew tells <em>In Touch Magazine: &#8220;Our producers reached out recently to him but he was angry. People have been reaching out to me about him for years. His name has come up on every season of Celebrity Rehab. Even people on Twitter were contacting me asking me to do something for poor Corey Haim. Well I would have been happy to.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Corey\u2019s agent, Mark Heaslip, the star did have reality plans \u2014 he had signed on for a new show about a life coach that would bring his career back. Haim also had other film projects in the works, including a film he was set to direct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nHGDlmh0nevrHS4Hcar8XMvQ3PM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nHGDlmh0nevrHS4Hcar8XMvQ3PM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nHGDlmh0nevrHS4Hcar8XMvQ3PM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nHGDlmh0nevrHS4Hcar8XMvQ3PM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former &#8217;80s teen idol Corey Haim was approached by VH1\u2019s Celebrity Rehab and Celebrity Fit Club during the last few weeks of his life. The 38-year-old Lost Boys star died at a Burbank, California hospital on Wednesday morning after his cancer-stricken mother found the actor unresponsive in their Los Angeles apartment. While Haim scoffed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}