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Pawn Stars’ Corey Harrison Says Dad Rick ‘Isn’t Made of Money’ After Asking Fans for Help With Bills
Rick Harrison stepped up and paid for at least half of his son Corey Harrison’s medical bills after a motorcycle crash earlier this year left him seriously injured. However, Corey said that his dad “isn’t made of money.”
Corey, 42, told TMZ on Friday, March 5, that people shouldn’t assume that Rick, 60, can foot the entire bill because the money isn’t rolling in like it previously did during the peak of their show, Pawn Stars.
“I love my dad to death, but he doesn’t give me s**t,” Corey told the outlet. “My dad’s made me work for everything my whole life.”
As Globe previously reported, Corey landed himself in the hospital after a motorcycle crash in early January.
“Pretty messed up but I’m good,” Corey shared with his fans in a post on Instagram at the time. “Crash bars are awesome, 3 nights in the hospital, 11 breaks in my rib cage.”
Since then, the former reality TV star has been weighed down with medical bills and his close friend Aron Chambers started a GoFundMe in an effort to raise money.
Aron said that Corey even left the hospital “against medical advice” after “the financial pressure became too much.” However, the situation took a turn for the worse after he returned home to his house in Tulum, Mexico.
When his “oxygen levels plummeted to dangerously low levels,” Corey’s friends drove him to a “more affordable” hospital four-and-a-half hours away.
“In a heartbreaking moment that shook all of us to our core, Corey looked at us and said, ‘I’m just going to die out here. I don’t have the money to keep paying these people,’” Aron wrote in the GoFundMe description.
As of now, fans have donated close to $7,000 in an effort to help Corey with the cost.
