“Pawn Stars” personality Rick Harrison said his son Corey doesn’t actually need help with medical bills from a motorcycle accident.
“To my knowledge, I paid all of Corey’s medical bills long before he issued a GoFundMe,” Rick told Page Six through a representative Friday. “He is a grown man in his 40s and is responsible for managing his own money.”
Corey’s friend Aaron Chambers set up a GoFundMe page for Corey earlier this week, claiming he was “raising emergency funds to cover over $100,000 in medical and related expenses after a serious motorcycle accident in Tulum, Mexico that left him fighting for his life.”
Corey, 42, broke 11 ribs in a motorcycle accident in Tulum, Mexico, in January.
“Pretty messed up but I’m fine,” the “Pawn Stars” alum wrote on Instagram at the time, also sharing a photo from his hospital bed. “Crash bars are the best. I was in the hospital for three nights. My rib cage broke 11 times.”
He missed Rick and Angie Polushkin’s wedding in January due to an injury. A representative for Rick, 60, told Entertainment Weekly at the time that Corey would undergo “six weeks of bed rest while healing” and would make a “full recovery.”
“Rick saw him at the hospital yesterday,” a rep told the outlet on January 26.
Through his GoFundMe page, Chambers claimed his best friend also suffered a concussion, internal bleeding and a punctured lung in the crash.
Corey was taken to a hospital in Playa del Carmen, where “the costs of treatment quickly add up,” Chambers said.
After leaving the hospital after 14 days amid mounting financial pressure, Mr Chambers wrote that Corey ended up staying in the hospital for another 18 days and undergoing “three life-saving surgeries”.
Ms Chambers claimed her friend is currently “three months behind on rent” and needs help with medication and “ongoing follow-up care”.
“He is not yet strong enough to return to the United States for continued treatment and family support,” Chambers argued. “This fundraiser is our lifeline to getting him through this.”
“Corey was a man who always worked hard, stayed humble and gave back without expecting anything in return,” Chambers wrote.
“Now it’s our turn to rally behind him. It’s not easy for someone as independent as Cory to ask for help, but this accident changed everything. We can’t do it alone.”
Meanwhile, Corey shared his concerns with TMZ on Friday. “What do you do when you fly to Vegas and sell stuff?” he told the outlet. “I can’t move from my recliner.”
His father, who co-starred with him on Pawn Stars from its debut in 2009 until the series went on hiatus in 2025, previously told the outlet: “Corey is an adult and will deal with his life as he sees fit.”
The popular History Channel series is set to return in 2027 without Corey, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The drama takes place two years after Rick’s son Adam died in 2024 at the age of 39 from a fentanyl overdose.
