Corey Feldman Responds To Matt Lauer Firing After 'Hostile' Interview

His appearance on "The Today Show" in October appeared to be hostile as he explained his crusade to expose pedophilia in Hollywood. Now, following news that his interviewer, journalist Matt Lauer, has been fired from NBC following allegations he engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior at work, actor Corey Feldman has spoken out about the situation.

News broke of Lauer's firing Wednesday morning, after his former co-anchors on "Today," Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Ktob, revealed at the top of the broadcast that they had received word moments earlier from NBC News chairman Andy Lack that Lauer had been fired, after an unnamed colleague reportedly came forward on Monday night to report an incident with him. In the statement, Lack acknowledged that while it had been the first complaint against Lauer in his 20+ years at the network, he was terminated because there was "reason to believe" it had not been an isolated incident.

Shortly after, Feldman, whom Lauer interviewed in October over his crusade to expose pedophilia following his claims that both he and fellow actor Corey Haim were sexually assaulted as children, took to social media to respond to the news, indicating that the environment he faced during his interview was a result of Lauer's own actions off-camera, and not because he was trying to be an investigative reporter.

The interview started with Lauer seemingly criticizing Feldman for not revealing names in his 2013 memoir "Coreyography," stating that he had promised to "blow the lid off" of things in that book, which made his claims now seem less believable.

"In all fairness though, we've been down this road before with you, and you have promised in the past to name names," Lauer said.

He went on to further seem as though he was criticizing Feldman for appearing on the show and discussing how he needed to raise $10 million in a short time period to expose the names of the people he claimed were guilty of assault when he was a kid, repeatedly asking the actor why he didn't go to the police.

"You've just told me that this is still prevalent in Hollywood, so every day you wait, every day you try to raise money, I imagine you believe that children are being abused by pedophiles in Hollywood. So why are you talking to me, why aren't you sitting down with the police right now?" Lauer asked at the time.

Feldman went on to state that he had gone to the police in Santa Barbara, California, back in 1993, but his claims were ignored at the time because they were focused on trying to find something on Michael Jackson instead, whom Feldman maintained was innocent. However, Lauer went on to maintain that he felt Feldman needed to go to the police, forcing the actor to point out that he didn't have that option because of the laws in California, which he felt were made to protect his abusers.

"You've said you have death threats because you have this information and have threatened to expose it, another reason I think, to go to the police, that's a crime to threaten someone's life," Lauer said. "And what would be wrong with going to the police now, again?"

"There's a statute of limitations Matt in the state of California which protects people," Feldman replied. "It's not that way in New York, it's that way only where the movie industry is, conveniently enough, in California...I'm not playing around. It is serious stuff and I vow that I will release every single name that I have any knowledge of, period. And nobody's going to stop me this time, as long as people support this."