Corey Feldman Claims Johnny Depp Bought Him Kicked Off ‘What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape’

Corey Feldman’s been nursing one critical grudge for years, and he’s lastly letting it rip — claiming that none apart from Johnny Depp is the explanation his Hollywood profession took a nosedive.

On Billy Corgan’s “The Magnificent Others” podcast, Corey dropped a bombshell, saying he was initially forged as Arnie in 1993’s “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” — and Depp pushed him out of the function, which then went to Leonardo DiCaprio.

Corey defined he was already forged within the function earlier than Depp got here into the image. However Depp had extra pull on the time and allegedly pulled producers apart, saying he didn’t need to work with him as a result of he thought Feldman was a “junkie.”

CF, who made his identify as a toddler star within the ’80s, had his struggles with medication and alcohol and even went to rehab — however by the point he was up for the function, he was sober and had turned his life round.

In truth, Corey says on the time he was attempting to assist Johnny’s shut pal, River Phoenix … who was going via his personal struggles, earlier than collapsing and dying outdoors Depp’s then co-owned nightclub, The Viper Room, from an overdose … simply weeks earlier than ‘Grape’ opened.

Given all that, Corey’s nonetheless a bit bitter, saying he hasn’t even watched ‘Grape’ but … and has at all times questioned how his profession would’ve panned out — particularly since DiCaprio snagged an Oscar nom for that function.