Former Child Stars You May Not Know Passed Away

Perhaps best known for starring in «The Lost Boys» in 1987, the edgy dark comedy that imagined a sunny California beach town that is home to a horde of vampires, Corey Haim quickly became one of the hottest stars of the ’90s. That wasn’t his first role, however, as a 12-year-old Haim starred alongside a young Robert Downey Jr. in the 1984 drama «Firstborn,» a whirlwind story of love, addiction, and manipulation. He’d spend his teenage years acting in films like Stephen King’s «Silver Bullet,» the coming-of-age drama «Lucas,’ and the oddball body-swap comedy «Dream a Little Dream.»

Later on in his career, things took a downward turn for the former child star, who battled both personal addictions and allegations of sexual abuse that would cast a dark shadow on his meteoric rise to fame. On March 10, 2010, Haim was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after collapsing in his family home, where he was promptly declared dead. Despite a history of substance abuse being known upon his passing, autopsy reports in the weeks that followed revealed that it wasn’t an accidental or even intentional overdose, but instead, pneumonia that caused his death.