Jason Voorhees To Enter Rehab

Written by Chad Messer

Monday, 16 June 2008

Crystal Lake – It has been said that the only thing that Americans love more than seeing a hero fall is to see a hero fall and then rise again, stronger than before. This is an adage that Jason Voorhees, star of 11 Friday the 13^th films has come to personify throughout his career, and one that he hopes his fans will believe in just one more time.

You see, Jason is struggling with some demons that, for once, did not spring forth from the bowels of Hell, but from the bottom of a bottle. Jason Voorhees is many things: unstoppable killing machine, machete wielding zombie, and functioning addict.

“In the beginning, I didn’t drink at all,” said Voorhees as we sat in his favorite restaurant in nearby Forest Green. “I was super serious about what I was trying to accomplish as an actor. I wanted to be the best maniac in the history of maniacs. And things were awesome for 3 films. Then I met Corey Feldman.”

Feldman, perhaps best known for his role in the film The Lost Boys, started his film career in Friday the 13^th Part 4: The Final Chapter. After a short career as a teen heartthrob in the mid 1980s, Feldman spiraled into a miasma of drugs and alcohol that destroyed his career.

“Even as a kid, Corey had a dark side,” Jason says, sipping on his latte through a straw that ends somewhere under his trademark hockey mask. “He offered me my first drink when we were done with shooting one day, and it was all downhill from there. On the set of The Final Chapter, it was booze. The New Beginning was all about pot. Jason Lives was all uppers, all the time. The New Blood was a haze of coke and hookers. When it came to Jason Takes Manhattan, every single one of us was on crack, and it definitely shows in the final product. I mean Jesus Christ on a graham cracker. I was chasing teenagers around MANHATTAN!” Jason takes a drag on a filterless cigarette, and then continues. “The rest of the films I was pretty much injecting heroin directly into my neck with a comically large syringe.”

Asked when he decided it was time to enter a rehab program, Voorhees has no problem pinpointing the exact moment. “It was during Freddy Vs. Jason. Freddy and I were getting ready to shoot a scene where we were fighting around the lake, and I was out of my gourd on a mix of meth and horse. Freddy took me aside and told me that he didn’t know who I was anymore, and that he loved me too much to watch me kill myself. That finally got to me. When somebody as fucked up as Freddy Kreuger tells you that you have a problem, maybe you ought to listen. The man is a pedophile, child-killer and dream-stalker. If he thinks you look bad, there’s something wrong.”

Jason will be entering a rehabilitation center in Hollywood tomorrow morning. After that, it will be anyone’s guess. Will the most famous maniac in America return to chase teenagers through the woods with a machete, or will the infamous Jason Voorhees finally be laid to rest? No one knows, but if anyone can find his way back for yet another second chance, it would be an unstoppable zombie killing machine.

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