Model/actress Cindy Guyer remembers Corey Haim as one hot mess during their short relationship in 2000, when they got engaged two days after meeting at an autograph show in Chicago.
“The sober side to him, he was such a sweetheart,” Guyer told Page Six of the actor who died this week at age 38. But once Haim moved to LA to stay with her, things turned ugly. “He was snorting cocaine. He went off with people and wouldn’t come back for a couple of days. He stole about $4,000 worth of jewelry,” she said.
Haim once threw Guyer — who posed for the covers of countless bodice-ripping romance novels — against a car, leaving a gash on her chin. “After two weeks, I spent $5,000 and put him in rehab at Betty Ford for a month, but he walked out after eight days,” she said. “After that I didn’t want anything to do with him.”
But then Haim began stalking her at her apartment across from the Sunset Marquis. “The phone calls were obsessive,” Guyer related. “One would be, ‘I love you, I can’t live without you,’ the next would be, ‘You bitch, you ruined my life.’ ” Their relationship ended when Guyer changed her phone number and moved to New York.
The curvy blonde later married Andrew Catapano, a contractor who went on trial two years ago on charges of bribing Con Edison executives and union officials. About a month after the couple separated, Guyer showed up in court to find Catapano’s new girlfriend sitting in the front row.
Guyer tapped the woman on the shoulder and followed her down a hallway during a recess and called her a “tramp.” Catapano was sentenced to 10 months in prison last year. The couple’s divorce was finalized this month.
Although four bottles of prescription drugs were found in Haim’s name, the LA coronor told Haim’s mother, Julia, that his symptoms at the time of death were “pulmonary congestion, enlarged heart and water in the lungs, which gave him heart failure.”