Texas official issues new warning of potential threat as rainfall continues

Socialist NYC mayoral hopeful’s father claimed Lincoln inspired the Holocaust

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father, a longtime academic and Ivy League professor, said during a 2022 panel discussion about one of his many books that Adolf Hitler drew his inspiration for the Holocaust from Abraham Lincoln.

The younger Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, has credited his parents with providing him a “privileged upbringing,” one that included frequent discussions on politics and global affairs, according to a New York Times profile on the mayoral candidate and his parents. Mamdani’s mother is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. 

During a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society, Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, asserted that America was the “genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” around the world.

JONATHAN TURLEY: WHY NYC’S ZOHRAN MAMDANI LOOKS MORE AND MORE LIKE A HARDCORE MARXIST

“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories,” Mamdani, Columbia’s Herbert Lehman professor of government, said. “For the Nazis, this was the inspiration – Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized, is that you don’t have to have a common citizenship.”

The elder Mamdani also argued during the talk that the racist and antisemitic Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany “were patterned after American laws.” 

Other comments included claims that there is no difference between “nationalism and colonialism” and that the Allied forces during World War II shared the same goals as the Nazis. 

“The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a ‘pure’ nation. A ‘pure’ nation rid of its minorities,” Mamdani said at the Asia Society event. “When the Allies defeated the Nazis and went into Eastern Europe, they began to create ‘pure’ nations. To ethnically cleanse Eastern Europe of Germans – move them back into Germany. One crime doesn’t wipe out another.”

CITY-RUN GROCERY STORES, DEFUNDING POLICE, SAFE INJECTION SITES: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT NYC’S NEXT POTENTIAL MAYOR

Following the political upset in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, critics began unearthing videos of the younger Mamdani espousing similarly radical views.

One of those moments came from remarks the NYC mayoral candidate made at a Young Democratic Socialists of America conference in 2021, during which he told attendees not to compromise on goals like “seizing the means of production.”

A second included a video from The Gravel Institute, during which Mamdani discusses the need to turn housing from a private commodity to a public one. In the video, he called for luxury condos to be replaced with communal-style living that would include things like shared laundry facilities and food co-ops.

“If we want to end the housing crisis, the solution has to be moving toward the full de-commodification of housing,” Mamdani urged in the video for The Gravel Institute.

DEM MAYORAL CANDIDATE IN MAJOR AMERICAN CITY LINKED TO RABID ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISM: REPORT

Meanwhile, other remarks by Mamdani’s father have raised concerns about how the Democratic mayoral candidate’s upbringing could impact his governing style. 

In an interview about his book, “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror,” the older Mamdani asserts that the term “suicide bomber” is a misnomer because they are no different from “soldier[s] whose objective is to kill.”

Professor Mamdani has also reportedly argued that Israel is “the logical conclusion of Nazism,” according to an excerpt of a study chronicling his academic arguments shared by the Washington Free Beacon. 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP  

Fox News Digital reached out to both Professor Mamdani and his son for comment. 

Lia Thomas’ ex-teammate who had locker right next to trans athlete breaks silence

Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Monika Burzynska said she was assigned the locker just one over from Lia Thomas’ when the transgender athlete joined the women’s swim team in 2021. Burzynska previously knew the athlete as Will Thomas, a member of the men’s swimming team at UPenn. 

“He wasn’t very social,” Burzynska told Fox News Digital, adding she had only ever had short, passing conversations with Thomas. 

She thought Thomas had already graduated when her team was dealt the news that the athlete would be transitioning to join the women’s team starting in the 2021-22 season. 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

When that season eventually began, and Thomas became a fixture in the women’s locker room, Burzynska often retreated to the corner of the room to change. Other times, Burzynska timed exactly when she changed to coincide with when Thomas showered. Eventually, Burzynska opted to only change in the stalls or in the family locker across the hall. 

“Around Lia, I wasn’t going to risk anything,” Burzynska said, regarding the possibility of the trans athlete seeing her undress.

Burzynska has never spoken out about her experience of being on a team with Thomas until now, amid the recent news that UPenn agreed to apologize to all the female swimmers, rescind Thomas’ program records, and adopt a new policy that applies strict biological definitions for males and females.

She said the news gave her “a deep sense of peace and validation.” 

“Not only for me, but for all the girls on the team, for all the girls in the swim world and in the sport world. And I think this decision, it brought back – at least for me – a sense of fairness that had been lost,” Burzynska said. “Women’s records belong to women and that protecting the integrity of women’s sports still matters.”

Still, the memories of what Burzynska and others had to endure lingers. 

Burzynska identifies as someone with conservative values, but says she grew up feeling “compassion” for transgender people. Her views changed when she was placed next to Thomas in the locker room. 

“I thought it must be terrible to feel like you’re trapped in the wrong body. Just be so out of touch with who you really are,” Burzynska said. “You have these issues that are from afar and you never really quite think they’re going to touch you personally until you’re on a team with Lia Thomas and your locker is directly next to this biological male. And you would have never believed that you’d be facing this issue directly.

“And then when that happens, your views change where you still feel sorry for this person because they’re clearly so deeply lost. But then it turns into more, ‘OK, this is not fair,’” Burzynska added. 

As a native of Colonia, New Jersey, Burzynska explained that she grew up in a liberal environment with prominent pro-LGBTQ sentiment. Those values followed her when she went to UPenn in the deep blue city of Philadelphia. 

“We have a very, very, how should I call it, like deep LGBTQ presence on campus where the campus buildings or the dormitories, rather than flying the U.S. flag, the trans flag, the LGBTQ flag [were flown]. Whenever I visit Penn, I see it’s like this huge skyscraper dorm, and they have the biggest rainbow flag you could imagine,” Burzynska said. 

“So I guess, in a sense, you could say it encourages it if a person is very confused about their identity, and then there’s this group that seems so accepting, so loving, telling you could be whatever you want to be… that might kind of, yeah, encourage people to turn that way.”

Burzynska, and the other female swimmers on the team at the time, were allegedly coerced into silence and submission by UPenn administrators. 

A lawsuit by three other former Thomas teammates, Grace, Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist, alleged that university officials pressured them not to speak out about their thoughts on Thomas joining the team publicly. 

“The UPenn administrators went on to tell the women that if the women spoke publicly about their concerns about Thomas’ participation on the Women’s Team, the reputation of those complaining about Thomas being on the team would be tainted with transphobia for the rest of their lives and they would probably never be able to get a job,’” the lawsuit alleged.

UPENN AGREES TO FOLLOW TRUMP’S MANDATE ON PROTECTING WOMEN’S SPORTS AFTER LIA THOMAS INVESTIGATION

Burzynska, having grown up in a liberal New Jersey town, was already accustomed to the consequences of sharing conservative values in a liberal setting. 

Burzynska recalls, from a young age, often being criticized for having “conservative or Republican values.” 

“I had been experiencing that forever. And even UPenn, I think it’s every university at this point, but UPenn is very, very left-leaning. And so I was kind of ready to embrace that, that my views wouldn’t be welcomed because, yeah, I’ve been conservative most of my life. My beliefs are grounded in faith.” 

Burzynska recalls a futile conversation she had with her head coach, Mike Schnur, when she confronted him with concerns about being on a team with Thomas. 

“We had this long meeting, I don’t know, almost two hours long. And he said, ‘Listen, Monika, I understand all your concerns. They’re all valid. I don’t think any of them would deter you from continuing onto your senior year and having a successful senior year. I think the one thing that would deter you is that Lia is changing in your locker room and there’s nothing you could do about it,'” Burzynska said. 

“I told him in that meeting, ‘What are you talking about? Like, how is this fair?’ And his response was, ‘It’s not fair, but if you have any issues with it, come to me… Don’t talk about it with everyone else. Come to me. We’ll talk through it'” 

Burzynska said she never took Schnur up on that offer, believing that he wouldn’t do anything about it anyway. 

Still, she alleges she witnessed her teammates having those futile conversations with Schnur, from a distance.

Then came the administrators that allegedly pressured the women’s swimmers who objected to Thomas to go to pro-LGBTQ counseling. Burzynska said she called the counseling session “brainwashing meetings.” 

She never attended the sessions. 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Burzynska has since moved on from the situation and has embraced her life and career beyond it.

Still, she admits that parts of the situation instilled “trauma” in her, and she is grateful that President Donald Trump’s administration made it a priority to instill consequences on UPenn. 

“Those [women’s] rights at Penn were clearly compromised so it’s amazing that they looked into it and Trump took it so seriously,” Burzynska said. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to UPenn for a response to Burzynska’s statements. 

Security expert warns of Iran’s ‘diplomatic capability’ after nuclear site damage

Iran is preparing its next step in what one security expert warns remains its chief objective: developing a nuclear weapon.

“Repair, reconstitute and rebuild is going to be the modus operandi of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, Senior Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Iran Program told Fox News Digital. “It just depends on how are they going to be doing it? While flirting with the international community? Are they going to go dark totally altogether?

“All of this remains to be seen,” he added.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR IRAN’S TERROR ARMY, THE IRGC, AFTER DEVASTATING MILITARY SETBACKS?

Spokesman for the regime, Fatemeh Mohajerani, confirmed this week that the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites had been “seriously damaged” following the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear program last month. 

Questions remain over the extent of damage that was incurred, as well as skepticism over whether Iran was able to move any enriched uranium or centrifuges away from the heavily guarded sites prior to the strikes. 

Though the Trump administration said on Wednesday that it had “obliterated” the three facilities it struck, and has fervently rejected reports suggesting that Iranian officials may have been able to transfer some elements of the regime’s coveted nuclear program, Israeli officials confirmed this week that they are continuing to monitor the situation closely.

Experts in the U.S. and Israel have said they believe Iran is still assessing the extent of the damage from the “bunker busting” bombs, and that the regime will look to recover and repair what it can — meaning it may be looking to buy time.

“No doubt, the regime will still have a diplomatic strategy designed to rope-a-dope anybody, and to find as much time as possible for this government to do that,” Ben Taleblu said.

The Iranian regime this week suggested it remained open to negotiations with the U.S. after President Donald Trump signaled that the talks could begin as soon as next week, though multiple Iranian officials said that that timeframe was overly ambitious. 

“I don’t think negotiations will restart as quickly as that,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a CBS News interview. “The doors of diplomacy will never slam shut.” 

TRUMP COULD ARM ISRAEL WITH US B-2S AND BUNKER BUSTERS IF IRAN TRIES TO GO NUCLEAR UNDER NEW PROPOSAL

But the regime also took steps to further hinder the UN nuclear watchdog — which is tasked with tracking all nation’s nuclear programs — and suspended all interaction with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday. 

That same day, the State Department condemned the move, and spokesperson Tammy Bruce said it was “unacceptable that Iran chose to suspend cooperation with the IAEA at a time when it has a window of opportunity to reverse course and choose a path of peace and prosperity.”

Iran has limited IAEA access in the past and Ben Taleblu argued Tehran will likely look to do this again as it attempts to hold on to any bargaining chip it can.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s next step, and likely most dangerous capability right now, is its diplomatic capability,” the Iranian security expert argued. “This is the capability of the regime to either enter negotiations with a weak hand and leave with a strong hand, or try to prevent a military victory of its adversaries from becoming a political victory. 

“If negotiations do take place between the U.S. and the Iranians, be they direct or indirect, the Iranians are going to be dangling IAEA access. This is already their most important weapon,” he added. 

Ben Taleblu explained that using the IAEA as a bargaining chip not only enables Iran to play for time as it looks to re-establish its nuclear program, but to sow division in the U.S. by creating uncertainty. 

GEN. KEANE: IRANIANS HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON A NUCLEAR WEAPON

“By diminishing the monitoring and by circumscribing and even cutting IAEA access to these facilities, the regime is trying to make America have to rely on intelligence alone,” he said. “And as you see from the very politicized debates over the battle damage assessment, relying on intelligence alone without sources on the ground inspecting the sites, inspecting the facilities, documenting the fissile material, can lead to drastically different conclusions being taken by similar but not the same intelligence organizations or representatives.”

Ultimately, Iran is not going to give up on its nuclear ambitions, Ben Taleblu warned, noting that Tehran’s security apparatus completely changed during its war with Iraq in the 1980s. 

“Everything that we face from the regime that is a security threat was started then — the ballistic missile program, the drone program, the maritime aggression, the transnational terrorist apparatus and the nuclear program all have their origins in the 1980s,” he said.  “By resurrecting this nuclear program, the Islamic Republic was not engaging in a science fair experiment. 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

“The Islamic Republic was seeking an ultimate deterrent,” Ben Taleblu continued. “It was seeking an ultimate deterrence because it had a vision for what the region and the world should look like, and it was willing to put foreign policy muscle and the resources of its state behind that vision.”

The expert on the Iranian regime warned that Iran’s 40-year “obsession” with developing its nuclear program to achieve its geopolitical aims is not going to change because of U.S. military intervention. 

Social media erupts over Netflix’s shocking cruise documentary

A newly released documentary on Netflix has continued to draw attention from viewers about how a vacation turned into a nightmare.

The film covers the Carnival Triumph ship — which departed from Galveston, Texas, and set sail to Cozumel, Mexico for a four-night stay in Feb. 2013.

The documentary, “Trainwreck: Poop Cruise,” explores the incident in which an engine fire left 4,000 passengers stranded at sea without power and dubbed the incident the “poop cruise,” according to Netflix’s website. 

CRUISE DO’S AND DON’TS: TOP 5 THINGS THAT WILL GET YOU BANNED FOR LIFE

Passengers were stranded for about five days until finally making it to Mobile, Alabama.

A Carnival spokesperson told Fox News Digital the incident from over 12 years ago was a teachable moment for the entire cruise industry. 

“A thorough investigation following the incident revealed a design vulnerability,” the statement said, “which was corrected and led Carnival Cruise Line to invest more than $500 million across our entire fleet in comprehensive fire prevention and suppression, improved redundancy and enhanced management systems, all in support of our commitment to robust safety standards.”

The company’s statement continued, “We are proud of the fact that since 2013 over 53 million guests have enjoyed safe and memorable vacations with us, and we will continue to operate to these high standards.”

The documentary features interviews with passengers, who shared their accounts of defecating in biohazard bags, seeing fights break out, having no power and revealing the chaos that unfolded aboard. 

MEXICO ROLLS BACK ITS CONTROVERSIAL NEW TAX ON CRUISE SHIP VISITORS

Stewart Chiron, a Miami-based cruise industry expert known as “The Cruise Guy,” told Fox News Digital the Carnival Triumph disaster was an unfortunate situation.

A Carnival spokesperson said the incident became a teachable moment for the entire cruise industry. 

Chiron said the incident “highlighted the significant safety measures available at that moment in time and lessons learned, as it has never happened again.”

“The ship did exactly what it was supposed to do and preserved lives,” he added. 

“While the passengers and crew were uncomfortable, they were safe. Food and supplies were replenished by other ships sailing in the area as it was towed to Mobile, Alabama.”

Viewers have taken to social media to share comments about the outrageous incident. 

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER

“Not me, watching the Netflix documentary about the 2013 carnival cruise that turned into a poop cruise,” said one woman on X.

Another X user posted, “OK, listen, hear me out. Other than the crew, who all seemed GREAT, these people seemed unbearable and really dramatic.”

Said another person, “My favorite part of the ‘Trainwreck: Poop Cruise’ situation was the part when all the toilets stopped working and they had no power, so they thought, ‘We should open the bars and give everyone free booze.'”

One X user wrote, “‘Trainwreck: Poop Cruise’ on Netflix is a perfect documentary to show how Americans would not be surviving a war on their soil for a single week.”

The same user called out “the audacity, incapability to handle inconvenience and the absolute lack of community and empathy for others in a crisis.”

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

An X user posted, “Oh, the entitled cruise passengers are the worst!”

“So, you’ve never been camping, done a missions trip, been hospitalized for any period of time, walked your dog, gone to a music festival? Just poop in the bag! You made the sewage problem so much worse,” the same user added. 

Accused wife killer’s secretive life exposed as woman reveals encounter at local bar

CAVE CREEK, Ariz. – Over 600 miles away from Salida, Colorado, where Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother’s Day in 2020, Barry Morphew found an escape from the state where prosecutors initially tried, but failed, to convict him of killing his wife.

Barry Morphew was indicted by a grand jury on charges of murder in the first degree after deliberation on June 20 in relation to the death of his wife, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew, who was also the mother to two daughters. Barry Morphew was arrested in Goodyear, Arizona, almost 11 hours from where his wife went missing.

Barry Morphew settled down in Cave Creek, Arizona, after prosecutors dropped murder charges in 2022 relating to his wife’s disappearance. The charges were dropped after alleged prosecutorial misconduct and failure to comply with discovery rules, resulting in the judge barring several state witnesses from testifying.

One restaurant employee in Cave Creek, Arizona told Fox News Digital he didn’t know Barry Morphew by his first name – and thought he was an entirely different person. Charlie Loots, bar manager at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral, told Fox News Digital that Barry Morphew went by the name “Bruce.”

BARRY MORPHEW TO APPEAR IN COURT AFTER GRAND JURY INDICTMENT CHARGING HIM WITH WIFE’S MURDER

Loots didn’t know Barry Morphew’s real name until June 20, when news reports began to surface about murder charges relating to Suzanne Morphew’s death.

“I was shocked that, again, I mean, I was very caught off guard about all of it,” Loots said. “I spent, honestly, as soon as I found about it, I spent like two hours reading articles about it. I was like, I was so intrigued, because I was, like, this s— doesn’t happen,” he said.

Loots said he began seeing Barry Morphew, or Bruce, as he knew the murder suspect, after the Coronavirus pandemic. He said Barry Morphew’s go-to drink was beer, often switching between Miller Lite and Coors Light, adding that he was at the bar on June 13, exactly one week before his arrest.

Barry Morphew “always was approached by other women” at the bar, Loots said, adding that he would frequently approach other women and flirted with them. 

BARRY MORPHEW EXTRADITED TO COLORADO TO FACE MURDER CHARGES IN WIFE’S 2020 DISAPPEARANCE

Libby Spruill told Fox News Digital she was one of the women Barry Morphew flirted with at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral. Spruill said she was at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral in March 2024 when Barry Morphew asked if she wanted to dance.

“He walked out to me and he said, ‘hi.’ He’s like, ‘Do you want to dance?’ And I said, ‘You’re Barry Morphew,'” Spruill said. 

At the time, according to Spruill, Barry Morphew said “no, no, I think you have the wrong person.” A bit later, Spruill said an individual approached them and introduced Barry Morphew as “Lee” from Indiana.

BARRY MORPHEW ACCUSED OF WIFE SUZANNE’S MURDER: SEE HOW THE 5-YEAR COLORADO MURDER MYSTERY UNRAVELED

According to the June 20 grand jury indictment, Barry Morphew went by the alias “Lee Moore.” A local gas station clerk told Fox News Digital he knew Barry Morphew by the name “Lee.”

Public records indicate Barry Morphew paid property taxes at the Stardust Trailer park and was self-employed. In Colorado, he was a landscaper and independent contractor, but he didn’t hold any professional license to do either in Arizona.

Colin McCallin, a Colorado-based lawyer and former deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Colorado, told Fox News Digital the use of two aliases is uncommon.

“That’s weird,” McCallin said. “I mean, that certainly is evidence that this is a person who does not want to be known by his true name, maybe even, know, a little reckless with the use of those aliases.”

“It’s clear he did not want to be known by Barry,” he said, adding its possible Barry Morphew was trying to live a double life in Cave Creek, Arizona.

Prosecutors wrote in a June 20 indictment that the chemicals butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine were found in Suzanne Morphew’s bone marrow. They alleged that Barry Morphew used “BAM” deer tranquilizer to sedate and transport deer on his farm when he lived in Indiana.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Barry Morphew was also the only person with a prescription for the deer tranquilizer within the area of the state he lived in, prosecutors said. The only two other entities with access to the BAM compound within the surrounding counties were Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the National Park Service, officials said.

“Ultimately, the prescription records show that when Suzanne Morphew disappeared, only one private citizen living in that entire area of the state had access to BAM: Barry Morphew,” the indictment states.

Morphew’s attorney, David Beller, previously told Fox News Digital Morphew “maintains his innocence.”

“Yet again, the government allows their predetermined conclusion to lead their search for evidence,” Beller said. “The case has not changed, and the outcome will not either.”

Barry Morphew’s lawyer declined to comment.

Treasury Secretary Bessent announces August 1 deadline for trade deals

Tariffs will reset to President Donald Trump’s original April levels if countries do not strike a new deal with the U.S. by August 1, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday.

Bessent made the announcement during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” telling host Shannon Bream that several trade deals are in the “home stretch.”

“Is it fair to say there’s a bit of a pause on the July 9th deadline for some of these trading partners?” Bream asked.

“I don’t think it’s a bit of a pause because I think what’s happened is there’s a lot of congestion going into the home stretch and, as a part of the trade team, what’s great about having President Trump on our side is he’s created maximum leverage,” Bessent said.

NEW PROJECTION SIGNALS GOOD NEWS FOR FAMILIES, WORKERS IN TRUMP’S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’

“By telling our trading partners that they could boomerang back to the April 2nd date, I think it’s really going to move things along over the next couple of days and weeks,” he added.

Bessent’s comments come amid speculation that Trump may fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and appoint Bessent to the post instead.

In the latest escalation in the feud between Trump and Powell, the president appeared to call for Powell to resign last week after the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) alleged Powell gave “deceptive” testimony to Congress.

Bream pressed Bessent on whether he is being considered for the role on Sunday, asking about how effective he thinks it is for Trump to batter Powell publicly.

“I’m a basketball fan. And in basketball there are two schools of working the refs. There’s the Bobby Knight school and the Dean Smith school. And, obviously, President Trump’s more in the Bobby Knight school. And I will tell you, Bobby Knight won three national championships. Dean Smith only won two. So, working the refs seems to be effective,” Bessent responded.

GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE

Bessent also dodged on the topic last week, telling Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that he will go wherever Trump tells him to go.

“We have a lot of great candidates for the Federal Reserve. I think I have the best job in Washington. I get to interact with the president. The Cabinet that he’s chosen is fantastic, and being part of that Cabinet is the dream of a lifetime for me. But I will go where the president thinks that I am best suited,” Bessent said.

‘God is my protector’: Corey Feldman exposes Hollywood’s dark secret societies

Corey Feldman says that his faith in God has protected him and has helped him maintain a “positive attitude” towards his life and career, despite claiming to have seen the darker and seedier side of the entertainment world.

Feldman, who starred in beloved ’80s classics like “The Goonies,” “Stand By Me,” and “The ‘Burbs,” spoke to Fox News Digital about how his faith has given him the strength to endure during his 50-year career in Hollywood. In that time, he experienced some of the industry’s nastier sides. 

“You know what I’ve learned is that God is good. God is my protector, God keeps me strong,” Feldman told Fox News Digital.

COREY FELDMAN SLAMS DIDDY AMID SEX TRAFFICKING PROBE, VOWS TO FIGHT SEXUAL ABUSE IN HOLLYWOOD

The actor and musician recently marked the 50th anniversary of his time in entertainment, a time he said he looks back on both with gratitude and positivity, while also acknowledging the trauma and abuse he says he and his famous friends suffered at the hands of predatory people.

A longtime whistleblower on sexual abuse in Hollywood, his 2013 book “Coreyography” detailed rampant child sexual abuse that happened to him and others during his career. It recounted how he was thrust into a harsh business without strong family support. According to Feldman, he had a depressed, drug-addicted Playboy model mom, and a musician father who routinely encouraged his young son to get high with him.

Feldman has often recounted how he got sucked into drug addiction for two years while he was a teen actor and has claimed that he and his childhood friend and fellow actor, the late Corey Haim, were molested by powerful men in the industry. 

In the years since, Feldman has championed industry change so that child actors are protected from similar abuse.

WATCH ON FOX NATION: WHAT DIDDY DO?

When asked if he believes Hollywood still retains that undercurrent of darkness that he says he was victimized by decades earlier, he replied, “Absolutely.”

He said, “Wherever there’s power, there’s corruption. We know this, right? Wherever there is power, there’s corruption, and wherever there’s corruption, there is darkness. Wherever there is darkness, there was light. So, it’s always about being aware of what’s going on, trying our best to be aware and trying to put out those fires as we see them.”

Feldman only briefly touched on his Hollywood troubles while speaking with Fox. “You know, obviously, yes, I’ve said some things about Hollywood because some bad things did happen to me, did happen to my best friend in Hollywood. But that said, there are also a lot of beautiful people in Hollywood that know nothing of it.”

1980s CHILD STAR TALKS ‘GOONIES’ SEQUEL, MUSIC CAREER, AND WHY AI THREATENS HOLLYWOOD’S ‘MAGIC’

The actor noted how much heat he has taken – and still takes – for having come forward with his allegations of child abuse in the industry. 

“That’s what makes secret societies secret societies, right? They hide in the shadows, and then they gaslight people who try to expose them. So that’s what happened to me. I’ve dealt with tons of blowback because I came forward – tons of abuse.”

CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE

Though Feldman said that he can “always” feel the pressure of these negative forces trying to derail him, he mentioned how he has learned that God will protect him through it all. 

“So as long as you have faith in that, and you keep bringing your best foot forward, and a smile on your face, and a positive attitude, I believe we can get past all of those things. And I believe that good always wins over evil and that’s just the way it is.”

Elsewhere, he told Fox that despite his suffering and dark past, his life “is good” today.

“As a producer, I feel quite satisfied. As an artist, I feel pretty satisfied. I have a girlfriend who’s lovely. I have a child who’s doing great. He’s 20 years old and fully grown. I think I’ve made a pretty decent life for myself, and I plan on continuing that,” he said. 

“My life is good. I’m grateful to God for giving me this opportunity to breathe today and have a chance to make our lives better each day. And I think we should all remain grateful and remember to be grateful to God because that, I think, is the key to happiness above all other things.”

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Actress reveals her surprising contract demand for Playboy photoshoot

As a sex symbol, Jenilee Harrison wasn’t keen on stripping down.

The actress, who replaced Suzanne Somers on “Three’s Company,” posed for the June 1987 issue of Playboy. While she was ready for her close-up, Harrison was determined to appear in the Hugh Hefner-led magazine on her terms.

Harrison, 67, is the co-host of a new podcast, “Stall Talk,” where women of various ages, “from the boomer to Gen Z,” share unfiltered stories and wisdom from personal experiences.

SUZANNE SOMERS’ WIDOWER FINDS ROMANCE WITH LATE WIFE’S ‘HOLLYWOOD WIVES’ COSTAR

“It was in my contract that, yes, I’ll do [Playboy], but I have to keep my clothes on,” Harrison told Fox News Digital.

“So I show up for this photo shoot in the Playboy building in Beverly Hills, and I go into the changing room to do my makeup and all that,” Harrison recalled. “And the photographer – a very famous photographer – comes in. He goes, ‘You’re all ready to go?’ And I said, ‘Well, yeah, where’s my wardrobe?’ And he looked shocked. He’s like, ‘Your wardrobe? No, we’re doing Playboy.’ And I said, ‘No, my contract says I’m wearing clothes.’ He was just shocked.”

“So everything stopped,” Harrison continued. “He had to get back on the phone. They had to regroup and bring in wardrobe… He didn’t even know. But I had to fight for that.”

Harrison became part of a small group of pinups who appeared in Playboy without going nude, including Dolly Parton and Barbra Streisand, among others.

The self-proclaimed tomboy admitted she struggled with being depicted as a sex symbol in front of cameras. She wanted to be recognized for her hard work in showbiz, not just for her beauty.

“I looked at being a sex symbol as just a wardrobe I had to put on to go into Hollywood and do this job,” she explained. 

‘THREE’S COMPANY’ ACTRESS SAYS SHE POSED FOR PLAYBOY ON HER OWN TERMS

“Your wardrobe is your outside, but it’s not what your core person is, what your soul is. But I had a large wardrobe because your wardrobe is the tool of the trade. I would say at 10 o’clock I had to be a nurse. At 12 o’clock, I had to be a secretary. At 3 o’clock, I had to be a Sports Illustrated model. At 5 o’clock, I had to be a hooker. And at 8 o’clock I had to be a nun. I had to be all those things. But was I uncomfortable? Absolutely, many times I was uncomfortable.”

Harrison clarified that she felt “blessed” to appear in Playboy without baring everything. It’s been one of many surprising moments for her in Hollywood.

“When I was very young – like 19 years old… my agent called me and said, ‘They want to see you – they’re replacing Suzanne Somers on ‘Three’s Company,’” said Harrison. “I thought, ‘Oh geez, why am I even going to the interview? I’m not going to get a role like that.'”

In 1980, after starring in four seasons of the hit sitcom, Somers asked for a raise, which she said was equal to what her co-star, John Ritter, was getting paid. The actress was quickly phased out of the show and then fired.

By then, Harrison, a former Rams cheerleader, had already appeared in commercials, as well as an episode in “CHiPs.” It only took her one interview to secure the role of Somers’ on-screen cousin, Cindy Snow.

“When I showed up for the audition… I tripped when I was walking in,” said Harrison. “I fell over things and grabbed something or whatever. They instantly thought, ‘Oh, here’s our klutzy cousin girl’… How lucky I was.”

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER

Harrison insisted she wasn’t fazed that she had big shoes to fill.

“I just live very much in the present,” said Harrison. “Luckily, I’m extremely disciplined… And whatever job I had, I looked at it in front of me and just did the work… And when I got on ‘Three’s Company,’ I was welcomed with open arms. They treated me lovely. They treated me like a little sister… And the girls [on set], we protected one another, and we supported one another.”

Harrison was eventually written out of the sitcom, but her luck didn’t end there. She later appeared in the hit soap opera “Dallas.”

“’Dallas’ was and is still such a joy,” she beamed. “And I worked with some of the people there… I remember visiting the set and Patrick [Duffy] was there with his boys. His kids started grabbing his shirt, and saying, ‘Dad, dad, that’s Jack Tripper’s maid!’ And Patrick’s going, ‘What are you talking about?’ The boys had been watching ‘Three’s Company’ and they were so excited. That broke the ice.”

According to Harrison, the cast of “Dallas” was keen to have her join their circle. Larry Hagman, who played ruthless oil tycoon J.R. Ewing, instantly welcomed her with his sense of humor.

She also saw a different side to the beloved TV villain.

LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

“He would not go out in public unless he had his hat on,” she said, referring to his character’s signature look.

“He had to have that cowboy hat because he said, ‘When I go out there, the people want to see J.R.’ He loved that character. And that hat was J.R. I remember one time we were all crammed in a limousine [heading] to some event. He left his hat or something, and he freaked out. We had to stop the car and everything. He said, ‘I need my hat!'”

Harrison said one of her favorite memories of Hagman was that, despite being the show’s star, he made sure to stay on set as long as he was needed to ensure the other actors could shoot their scenes with ease.

“Larry would not go home if his lines were needed,” she said. “Larry knew that the show’s success was not just about him. The show’s success was because of all the characters and how they interacted.”

“He had every right to be the number one star, leave the set and just have that air about him,” she continued. “And he didn’t. He was very down-to-earth, and he worked hard with all of us. And he continued to work. His whole life… he’d still do autograph shows and be out in public. He never took his role, his popularity in ‘Dallas,’ for granted… [He taught us] not to take it for granted. It could be gone tomorrow.”

Today, Harrison is “living the dream” running a sprawling ranch. But when she’s not tending to her animals, she’s sharing stories on “Stall Talk.”

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a boomer or Gen Z, we’re sharing the most intimate, honest, relationship issues with ourselves, and we’re giggling, or we’re crying,” said Harrison. “But we’re sharing those stories… All of our guests just share real and honest questions about what women talk about when they go to the bathroom together.”

“The advice I always give [on the podcast] is go for your dreams, go for the opportunities,” Harrison reflected. “You have to persevere and remember that if you persevere, anything can happen. Anything is possible.”