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He had a well-known struggle with prescription drug addiction, and Corey Haim was having a rough time in the days leading up to his accidental overdose earlier this week.

Director Jensen LeFlore, who worked with Haim on “Decisions,” told press that Corey sounded upset during a recent phone conversation.

"That was the only time I really heard him down. His mom was all Corey had ... He was focused on taking care of his mom. They were living together. He wanted to take care of her."

Pal Angela Cullins added, "They spent a lot of time together. She was battling breast cancer. It was very stressful for him ... It was exhausting, but he took care of her when she needed him."...

When Corey Haim recently called Jensen LeFlore, his director on the movie Decisions, his mood was markedly different from the upbeat, Frisbee-playing actor on the set just a few weeks earlier. Haim explained that he had just spoken to his 61-year-old mother Judy, who was battling breast cancer. She was not doing well. "That was the only time I really heard him down," the director tells People. "His mom was all Corey had ... He was focused on taking care of his mom. They were living together. He wanted to take care of her."In the end, it was his mother...

Corey Haim's movie career probably reached its highpoint with one well-regarded, well-remembered vampire movie, 1987's The Lost Boys. That title became the sadly ironic tag that followed his descent from success to his tragic end, another premature Hollywood death in a shockingly short span. The cute kid with the tangled hair and the curling upper lip that hinted at hip self-awareness - well, he was sidelined. He was replaced by a spaced-out stranger who often looked bloated - he claimed at one point to have weighed 285 pounds after spending almost a decade as a shut-in, depressed and in bed.

The Corey Haim filmography that began with the 1984 family drama Firstborn will end next month with Decisions, the last movie Haim completed before he collapsed and died of an accidental drug overdose today at age 38. His IMDb page shows a host of others in pre-production, but Haim rolled film on this one last November in L.A. with director Jensen LeFlore. As the clip below hints, you might say it's slightly flawed. But as the movie's executive producer implied, it's not Haim's fault.