The reality star incurred medical debt exceeding $100,000 after spending a month in two different hospitals in Mexico.

Pawn Stars’ Corey Harrison launches GoFundMe after motorcycle crash — but dad Rick claims he paid his son’s medical bills

The reality star incurred medical debt exceeding $100,000 after spending a month in two different hospitals in Mexico.

By Kathleen Perricone

on March 6, 2026 8:23 p.m. ET

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“Big Hoss” needs a big assist from fans!

*Pawn Stars*’ Corey Harrison has launched a GoFundMe to help pay more than $100,000 worth of medical bills after a January motorcycle accident in Mexico left him with only $400 in his bank account.

Harrison, 42, suffered life-threatening injuries, including 11 fractured ribs, a concussion, punctured lung, and internal bleeding, all of which required multiple surgeries, according to the GFM page started by his friend Aron Chambers.

After spending 14 days in a Playa del Carmen hospital, “the financial pressure became too much, and Corey had no choice but to check himself out against medical advice,” Chambers wrote. Once back at home in Tulum, Harrison began to experience “excruciating pain” and his oxygen levels “plummeted to dangerously low levels.”

Corey Harrison initially spent 14 days in a Playa del Carmen hospital after the motorcycle crash.

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Chambers continued, “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.” Harrison’s friends then drove him to a more affordable medical facility four hours away in Merida, where he spent another 18 days in the hospital.

Harrison is now on the mend, but “the challenges aren’t over”: The reality star is three months behind on his rent in addition to his mounting medical expenses.

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On the heels of his GFM news, though, Harrison told TMZ that his father Rick — whose wedding in Tulum he missed because of the motorcycle accident — has paid at least half of the six-figure hospital bill, however, he needs to reimburse him.

But that’s not exactly the case, counters Rick Harrison. “As far as I know, I paid all of Corey's medical bills long before he put the GoFundMe out,” the patriarch told TMZ on March 6, adding that there is no "repayment schedule in place" for his son to make good on the personal loan. “He is a grown man in his 40s and is responsible for how he handles his finances."

Rick Harrison and Corey Harrison together in 2015.

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Corey Harrison seemed surprised by his father's flexible payment policy, when informed by TMZ.

"If he decided I don't have to pay him back the money, then happy birthday to me," retorted Corey, who turns 43 on April 27. "But based on our personal and business relationship, I don't see how that's possible. I love my father very much, he's always been there for me, and I don't have a problem with him at all."

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According to the GoFundMe page, a goal of $100,000 was originally set. However, as of press time it was lowered to $18,000, of which only $7,596 had been raised.

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