Corey Feldman and Jenna Johnson won’t be taking home the Mirrorball Trophy on this season of Dancing With the Stars.
Feldman and Johnson were eliminated in the second episode of season 23, which aired September 23 on ABC. The pair’s exit came after reports that the DWTS pro was frustrated with her celeb partner. But sources close to Feldman say that the Stand By Me star was committed to putting on a good show in the competition series and was disappointed to be sent home early.
Corey Feldman feeling ‘defeated’ after ‘DWTS’ elimination
Feldman is “pretty defeated” after getting kicked off the popular show, an insider told Page Six. The ‘Burbs actor is particularly upset about the reports that he wasn’t willing to put in the work to succeed on DWTS.
“The most upsetting thing is the narrative that he didn’t show up and that he and his partner Jenna didn’t get along,” the source said. “Corey showed up every day and worked his ass off.”
Rumors of a rift between Johnson and Feldman surfaced after her brother-in-law, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, told The Daily Mail (via Page Six) that she was having “a bit of an uphill climb with Corey.”
New Charlie Sheen documentary distracted ‘Stand By Me’ star
If Corey wasn’t giving it 100% in rehearsals, it may be been because he wasn’t in the right headspace. The Dancing With the Stars premiere came just days after Netflix dropped a candid new documentary about fellow ‘80s star Charlie Sheen.
In 2020, Feldman opened up about sexual abuse that he and the Corey Haim experienced as child actors in the entertainment industry in his documentary, My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys. One of the perpetrators, he alleged, was Sheen. Feldman claimed Sheen, then 19, raped Haim, then 13, on the set of the 1986 movie Lucas.
“Corey attended a People magazine party with his DWTS cast mates while having to sit with the fact that Charlie Sheen was currently on the cover of the magazine,” a source said.
The Two and a Half Men act​​or has strongly denied assaulting Haim. In aka Charlie Sheen, he called the rape allegations “a piece of vile fiction.”
“I should have taken legal action against Feldman,” Sheen said. “But I didn’t feel like giving that clown that much more credit. We were friends back in a day or so I thought … [Haim’s] mom came out and said this is impossible.”
“It’s vile, it’s damaging, and it’s not who I am,” he added.
Dancing With the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and Disney+. Episodes stream the next day on Hulu.