Daily Inspiration Quote by Corey Feldman

There is a trapdoor in Feldman’s line: sobriety is supposed to be the moral upgrade, the clean narrative arc Hollywood loves. He flips it with a shrugging “It’s funny,” a little comedian’s misdirection that softens the blow before the punch lands. The wit isn’t in being clever; it’s in refusing the expected redemption script.

The intent feels defensive and revealing at once. Feldman isn’t arguing that getting “screwed up” is good; he’s exposing how fragile the idea of “better judgment” can be when the substances are gone but the machinery of your life stays broken. The subtext is that addiction can function like camouflage or anesthesia. When you sober up, you don’t just lose the high - you lose the buffer. Suddenly you’re fully present for the industry pressures, the old wounds, the people who benefited from your chaos, and your own untrained coping skills. Bad choices don’t disappear; they simply become harder to blame on chemistry.

Context matters: Feldman’s public life has long been a tug-of-war between child-star fame, tabloid framing, and his attempts to narrate trauma on his own terms. In that ecosystem, sobriety can mean facing contracts, relationships, and self-mythology without the excuse that everyone already accepts. The line also critiques the cultural laziness of “clean equals healed.” Sobriety is an action, not a personality transplant. Feldman’s uncomfortable honesty works because it punctures a feel-good genre and replaces it with something messier: accountability complicated by damage, not erased by it.