Nicole Eggert Opens Up About Engagement to Corey Haim amid His Addiction: ‘I Really Saw the Darkness’ (Exclusive)

It was alarming to me. It was frightening," Eggert enlightens Individuals concerning living through Haim's habit during the '90s

Nicole Eggert is thinking back on the highs and lows of her relationship with the late Corey Haim.

The Baywatch alum, 52, is making sense of the feelings that accompanied being locked in to Haim, who passed on from pneumonia in 2010 at age 38, during his dependence. The two costarred together in a few motion pictures, including 1992's Blown Away and 1993's Anything for Adoration.

Eggert will show up in the impending four-section docuseries Baywatch: The Pursuit of happiness. Coordinated by Matt Felker, it will dig into the existences of the 1989-2001 series' cast onscreen and offscreen. The entertainer was important for the Baywatch projected from 1992-1994.

She tells Individuals solely that she cherished being around Haim on the arrangements of their joint tasks, however away from plain view, things turned out to be "weighty.

"It was unnerving to me. It was unpleasant," she says. "I recollect whenever I first at any point saw cocaine was from him, yet he wasn't attempting to inspire me to do anything with him. It was his own confidential thing, which looking back would feel somewhat odd, however he was never attempting to drag me into that."

The two met in the mid '90s on the arrangement of the film Blown Away, and dated from 1991 until 1993.

According to at that point, she, she was arranging her acting profession while attempting to manage three years of sexual maltreatment, from ages 14 to 17, by her Charles in Control costar Scott Baio. (Baio has more than once denied the claims.) Haim, who said he had additionally experienced sexual maltreatment, conversed with Eggert about his injury, however she says she never educated him concerning hers.

I assume I was still willfully ignorant. Well, I've truly been willfully ignorant about it up to this point when I began unloading it and being like, 'OK, it is right here,'" she makes sense of. "Yet in addition I felt embarrassed. Tragically, you convey disgrace and you convey shame. I never wanted to be viewed as a casualty.

She proceeds: "When I managed it and I got past it, I could have done without that, so I didn't discuss that."

The vast majority of their two-year relationship and brief commitment spun around Haim's habit battles, which were ever-present in his life. Eggert says she would take him to the medical clinic since she didn't have any idea how to help him when he was out of medications.

"He'd go there [the hospital] to get stuff. At the point when we'd be on set, makers supply it; they'd supply medications, and solutions for the most part is what I saw," she uncovers. "Yet, no, assuming he was having the shakes and blowing a gasket around midnight and needed to go to the trauma center, I'd take him. Since I wasn't in that head space or in that — I didn't have the foggiest idea what to do. I was like, simply take him to the clinic if that is where he needs to go."

Getting to know each other on set, the previous Charles in Control star says she had the option to have fun with Haim, and the two of them likewise had their own lives at the center of attention. The pair got ready for marriage, and from the external searching in, everything was going without a hitch.

"He proposed and we were working," she says. "We were on set, everything was so fun."

It was the point at which they moved in together after the film finished recording that Eggert saw what Haim's days off the clock were like. She "rapidly" acknowledged she "needed to disavow" the relationship.

"We returned to L.A., and he didn't have a put since he'd been out and about shooting and stuff, so I let him come stay with me at my place," she says. "And afterward that is the point at which I saw the genuine way of behaving and the genuine murkiness. Also, I was unable to live with it, and I was unable to excuse it or backing it or any such thing. That is the point at which I truly saw the murkiness."

After Eggert cut attaches with Haim, she says she just stayed in contact with him "to a great extent." Still, up until his demise very nearly twenty years after the fact, she says she cherished him.

Presently a single parent bringing up two girls, Keegan, 12, and Dilyn, 25, Eggert — who was determined to have stage 2 cribriform carcinoma bosom disease toward the beginning of December 2023 and only uncovered her wellbeing fight to Individuals — says it's been an unpleasant excursion for her, yet she'll continuously recollect her affection for the late star.