Margherita Culton
Former child star Corey Feldman has been rushed to the hospital after a harrowing medical emergency up in the air on a flight bound for Los Angeles.
The 54-year-old actor – who broke his silence on being snubbed from the Rob Reiner tribute at The Oscars in March – was arriving back home from Chicago on Monday afternoon when paramedics met him at the gate.
A source told TMZ that Feldman had been feeling very sick on the flight and was checked out by a doctor on board.
The insider claims that the physicians believe the issue may be pancreatitis or gallstones.
Daily Mail has reached out to Feldman’s representatives for comment and has yet to hear back.
The Los Angeles Fire Department told the site that they had responded to the airport for a patient who was experiencing a medical emergency.
A spokesperson for the public safety department said that the patient, a 54-year-old male, was transported to a local medical facility for further evaluation and treatment.
TMZ has also confirmed that man is Feldman who is currently undergoing tests at the hospital.
The star had a busy weekend as he reunited with his co-stars from 1986 classic coming of age film Stand by Me including Jerry O’Connell and Wil Wheaton.
The trio – in addition to Dan Pasternack who served as host – participated in special Stand By Me Live events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic movie including one in Indiana on Saturday and another in Chicago on Sunday.
Stand by Me – directed by the aforementioned Reiner – is centered around a group of childhood friends who go on an adventure to find the body of a boy who went missing in the woods. The late actor River Phoenix also was one of the core castmembers.
The celebration of the film’s anniversary comes months after Feldman broke his silence on being excluded from the emotional Reiner tribute at the 98th Annual Academy Awards in March.
Many were shocked when his Stand by Me co-stars O’Connell and Wheaton were invited to take part in the tribute on stage during the ceremony – but the invite was not extended to Feldman.
‘I think Jerry and Wil did what had to be done,’ he told Entertainment Weekly while celebrating the film’s 40th anniversary. ‘It was a fleeting moment, so I don’t feel like I missed much at all.
‘I personally was probably maybe a little bothered by the fact that nobody got to speak or do or say anything from their own heart.’
Feldman expressed that ‘it is what it is’ before admitting that ‘it felt a little bit like a family reunion I wasn’t invited to.’
But the star added that ‘we’re not going to use this time to go into my feeling about that.
‘Instead I just want to say that I’m with the rest of us, we’re all very destroyed that things went down the way they did, losing Rob when we all thought he’d be joining us at some point for this tour and it’s a tragedy.’
Reiner as well as wife Michele were tragically killed inside their Los Angeles home on December 14, 2025.
A source told the Daily Mail in February that Feldman had been ‘devastated’ that he wasn’t included in the tribute, with the Goonies star allegedly viewing it as a huge ‘slap in the face.’
‘As the Academy starts to unravel their ideas for the Oscars, one thing they have planned is a tribute to Rob Reiner,’ the insider explained.
‘They are looking to have Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal on stage and also have Jerry O’Connell and Wil Wheaton from Stand By Me to be a part of the tribute.
‘One person currently left off is Corey Feldman, and Corey is devastated that he hasn’t been asked to be a part of the tribute.’
The source added that Feldman ‘loved Rob and expected to be asked, especially since Jerry and Wil were asked.’
They continued that the star wanted ‘nothing more than to honor Rob, and the fact that he currently isn’t allowed is an absolute slap in the face.
‘Even if he wasn’t on the stage, he’d love to be there, to honor Rob.’
Both O’Connell and Wheaton allegedly reached out to the Academy ‘for some answers’ but were ‘met with silence.’
The pair felt that Feldman should have also been ‘a part of the tribute’ before the insider alleged that organizers were possibly ‘looking to snub him out.’
Before the awards ceremony, the actor briefly talked about not being invited on his X account.
‘HI FOLLOWERS & SUPPORTERS, I JUST WANT 2 BRIEFLY MENTION THIS WHOLE OSCARS THING!’ he began.
‘YES ITS TRUE THAT I WAS NOT INVITED, I UNDERSTAND MANY BELIEVE ITS DUE 2 BEING OUTSPOKEN ABOUT THE ABUSE I SUFFERED AS A CHILD & THE CAMPAIGN 2 SILENCE ME.’
The star added, ‘HOWEVER THIS ISNT ABOUT ME! ITS NOT MY MOMENT @ ALL! ITS ABOUT THE TRAGIC LOSS OF R FRIEND ROB REINER & HIS MEMORY. SO AS MUCH I APPRECIATE ALL SUPPORT, ITS VERY SWEET OF U…..’
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