Corey Feldman proposed to his longtime Canadian girlfriend Courtney Anne Mitchell over fears new immigration laws under Donald Trump could see her deported from the United States.
The couple was celebrating their fourth anniversary in Palm Springs, California when the former child actor and mainstay of beloved ’80s movies like The Goonies and Stand by Me got down on one knee to propose.
“I was of course a bit nervous, as any man will admit, you never truly know what a woman is thinking,” he explains to People. “So as much as I assumed she would be happy and say yes, there’s always that insecure part of my brain that regresses immediately to my childhood and thought maybe not.”
Feldman popped the question with a middle school-style handwritten note.
“So I kinda chickened out and did a written proposal by writing a note with two check boxes, one for yes and the other for no,” he says. “Of course there was a ring in there with the note. Luckily she said ‘yes!’ She was very surprised, excited and started crying. She was surprised because we had both been so anti-marriage since we met. But seeing as she’s Canadian and with Trump coming in, we didn’t want to risk being separated by new immigration laws.”
