My BFF...Corey Haim

Unless you live under a rock, then you have heard the news that the beloved 80's star, Corey Haim has passed away at 38.

This morning when I heard the news I immediately went to my basement to try and dig up my old posters from my Tiger Beat and Bop magazines to see if I had any Corey Haim stuff lying around. Um, what were you going to do with that Amanda? I have no idea. But I was so shocked because we were literally BFF's for an evening. True story. Until I turned creepy.

My friend Mandy, Sandy and I were hitting the town pretty hard one night in October 2008 and we were just finishing up terrorizing the men of Toronto, when we stopped into the convenience store by our apartment and met Corey Haim. This is how it went down.

In my intoxicated hungry state, I was most likely grabbing Cheetos, a frozen dinner, ice cream and chips just to satisfy the emptiness that 10 pints of beer left. We were raiding the store when we heard a bottle smash. We look over to see a gentleman heading toward the counter apologizing for the mess. Immediately, we all recognize who it was but none of us could gather any of our sentences-no not because of the beer but because it was our 80's crush in the flesh. We were silent as we relished in our celeb sighting. We left the store and did what any respectable, un-stalkerish women would do...Waited.

 We formed our very own private papparazi and threw in a few "holy fucks," and "OMG's that's Corey Haim!" There was nothing sneaky about us as we were like school girls when he finally exited the store, "Um, excuse me can we get our picture taken with you?" He was so polite and of course obliged. He was really quite shy. This is Mandy...she's a bit permiscuous.

The below photo was taken before he caught me sniffing his leather jacket. I literally couldn't believe that I was standing there with a guy whose poster I kissed nightly when I was growing up. Anyway, I was going in to smell his neck (as you would if you met any celeb) and instead I ended up taking a giant and noticable deep breathe in. My nose was pressed against his leather jacket. At this point he just turns his head and looks at me like "what are you doing?" He didn't say it but I felt it in my BFF's eyes. This photo is quite blurry but who cares.

It was a memorable evening that's for sure. I am choosing to leave out the part when we returned home and t Mandy and I refused to go to bed so we put on our party shoes and scoured the neighbourhood for him at 4am. What we were going to do if we were to find him randomly on the street...we have no idea. It sounded genious at the time.

On a serious note, this is a tragedy as he was turning his life around. My thoughts are with all those who knew and loved him and his spirit will live on through his movies.