Life's Pleasures Quote by Corey Feldman

There is a quiet, almost transactional grief in Feldman’s phrasing: “People do not realize this” frames his addiction less as confession than as a correction to the public record. He’s not asking for absolution; he’s arguing with the mythology that’s been built around him. For a former child star whose life has been consumed by narrative - tabloid arcs, cautionary tales, “where are they now” packaging - the most radical move is to shrink the story down to scale.

“It was actually a short span of time” is doing PR work and emotional work at once. It’s an attempt to reclaim proportionality: addiction as a chapter, not a personality. The repetition (“short span,” “only,” “two years”) reads like someone trying to pin down a slippery timeline because everyone else has already decided what it meant. In celebrity culture, duration becomes morality math: the longer you struggled, the more you’re either damned or turned into a brand of resilience. Feldman resists both.

The subtext is sharper: if it was only two years, why did it define decades of perception? That question points to the way child actors are denied ordinary complexity. Their pain gets flattened into a single, marketable explanation for whatever went wrong afterward. Feldman’s emphasis on brevity doesn’t minimize addiction; it indicts an audience and an industry that prefer a neat scandal to a messy human.

Context matters: Feldman has spent years insisting that exploitation, not personal weakness, is the real headline. By tightening the timeframe, he shifts attention from “he was an addict” to “look at what happened around him” - and who benefited from the longer, uglier story people wanted to tell.