Corey Haim died of natural causes from a combination of pneumonia and respiratory and heart trouble., according to the Los Angeles County coroner report which released today May 4. Corey Haim died at age 38 on March 10.
ACTOR COREY Haim died of natural causes from a combination of pneumonia and respiratory and heart trouble, according to the Los Angeles County coroner report which released today May 4. The coroner attributed the cause of death to three things, damage to the air sacs in his lungs, pneumonia and a hardening of his heart muscle with plaque build-up within the blood vessels.
Corey Haim died at age 38 on March 10 at Burbank, California's Saint Joseph Medical Center. Initially it was reported that actor Corey Haim is dead after an accidental drug overdose. He was born in Ontario in 1971, found fame in Hollywood as a teenager. Actor Corey Haim became a teen heartthrob with the 1986 film Lucas and 1987's The Lost Boys.
His first role was in the 1984 hit Firstborn, in which he played a young child caught up in a family war. He then appeared in the 1985 television movie, A Time to Live. In 2008, he made a minor comeback alongside fellow '80s superstar Corey Feldman in "The Two Coreys," a reality show that chronicled their friendship. In 1991, at 20 years old, Haim took his first major adult role in "Prayer of the Rollerboys," a post-apocalyptic thriller in which he played a reluctant inline-skater-turned-undercover-agent in a violent gang.
Toronto born actor Corey Haim, who had struggled with drug problems throughout his life and he reportedly suffered a drug-induced stroke in 2001 and was rushed to UCLA Medical Center.