Horror film actress Tiffany Shepis, best known as “scream queen”, was engaged to actor Corey Haim for some time but his addiction to prescription meds and the lack of desire to get clean led her to call off the engagement. Tiffany is shocked by her ex-lover’s death but she knew he was on a self-destructive path.

“I was trying, like everyone wants to do, to be Mother Teresa and help somebody, like Corey [Feldman] did and tons of other people in the past,” Tiffany says. “I moved him out to Arizona thinking it would help and get him away from everything and the people who were setting him up to fail.”

“It didn’t work out,” she says of the move to Tucson. “I broke everything off before he left. There was just no progression, and if somebody doesn’t want to get better…”

Tiffany and Corey announced their engagement to her family on Thanksgiving 2008. Even then Corey’s addiction was painfully obvious and it was already completely out of control. “He was completely gone,” she tells E! News. “He kept disappearing and everyone was like, ‘Where is Corey?’ He would just go hide away…be in the bathroom.”

Tiffany’s sister Becky remembers Corey as someone really sweet who really wanted to be with her sister and be part of their family. However, whenever Becky visited her sister at their place, Corey was a completely different person. “He was always out of it,” Becky admits. “He always had a glazed-over look. He kind of just looked hazy, not all there.”

When Tiffany finally realized she wasn’t able to force Corey to change, their relationship was over. The two regained contact when Corey returned to LA in early 2009. Their relationship/contact was always complicated and tumultuous.

“I would go back and forth,” Tiffany says of their communication. “I would get insane phone calls, insane emails. Like stuff that you can’t even imagine a person saying to another person. And then I would run into him and he would look half OK and look like he’d gained some weight. I think he had like little mini, two-week instances of sobriety and then hard-core falloffs.”

Corey and Tiffany stopped speaking six months ago. Corey was rumored to be dating reality star Daisy de la Hoya during the last couple of weeks (read more details) before his tragic death from an apparent accidental overdose on Wednesday (March 10).

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