rant · moment 15 of 24
Hollywood's Toxic Culture and Corey Feldman's Non-Reveals
from #205 - Well, LA Was Fun | The Tim Dillon Show · #205
6 min
Tim discusses real predation in Hollywood, mocks Corey Feldman's repeated promises to expose Hollywood pedophiles that never materialize, and jokes darkly about his own parents' incompetence at exploiting him as a child actor, before pivoting to rising, underreported child abuse statistics during quarantine.
- Tim describes the predatory power structure in Hollywood: powerful men who've built fortunes are insulated from accountability.
- Corey Feldman keeps promising to out all the pedophiles but then just drops a new single with the Angels instead.
- Tim reflects on never becoming successful as a child actor and speculates his incompetent parents would have sold him into abuse if they were capable of organizing it.
- His grandmother stood outside the bathroom during a play to prevent anyone from molesting him, which Tim credits as her protecting him.
- Molestation statistics are staggering, especially during quarantine, and cases now go unreported until children require emergency room treatment.
- Teachers used to catch abuse when kids talked about it; now abused children only get discovered when injured badly enough for hospitalization.
- Tim apologizes for not making the child abuse reporting setup funnier, saying he should have run with it harder.