We're engaged! The Goonies child star Corey Feldman proposes to Canadian girlfriend Courtney Anne because he's worried Trump might deport her

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Corey Feldman has got engaged thanks to the presidential election results. 

The 45-year-old actor has proposed to Courtney Anne because he's afraid his girlfriend will be deported.

Last weekend as they celebrated their fourth anniversary in Palm Springs, and admitted he was so nervous about popping the question, he wrote her a simple note instead.

Nervous: Corey Feldman proposed to Courtney Anne because he's afraid his girlfriend will be deported thanks to Trump

He said: 'I was of course a bit nervous, as any man will admit, you never truly know what a woman is thinking. 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.'

'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.'

However, it looks like it was all good news: 'Of course there was a ring in there with the note. Luckily she said "yes!" '

Wedding bells: Last weekend they celebrated their fourth anniversary in Palm Springs

The Goonies star admitted the 27-year-old beauty was very surprised by his proposal as they had previously both been 'anti-marriage'.

However, he felt it was important to legalize their relationship following the election of Donald Trump, who has vowed to tighten up immigration when he takes the presidential office in January.

Corey told People magazine: '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.'

Old times: The Goonies star (pictured second from left) admitted the 27-year-old beauty was very surprised by his proposal as they had previously both been 'anti-marriage'

'We both know that we make a good team, and don't want to be separated for any reason. So this is the best decision to protect our relationship.'

And the Stand By Me actor - who has 12-year-old son Zen with ex-wife Susie Sprague - will be tying the knot sooner rather than later.

He said: 'We are planning a small, secret wedding just for family, very soon.

'We will likely have a big public wedding for friends and media to attend within a year.'

Iconic: Corey was in the 1985 hit film The Goonies 

But one thing the couple won't be rushing into is having children together.

He said: 'I have always said I wanna make sure I get it right the first time, and [that] Zen comes out perfectly, well balanced, before I even think about taking on any more responsibility.

'Courtney is young and she has a career in modeling and music, she would rather keep her body in good shape for now. She's getting good practice with Zen.' 

Meanwhile, the child actor recently performed on the Today Show, which received mixed reviews.

According to People, the actor took to Facebook Live to defend himself, chatting with Courtney Anne, one of the Angels in his band, and now fiancé, though he later deleted the video.

'We just wanted to tell everybody that, like, it’s been really painful. We put ourselves out there and we did the best that we could. And, like, I’ve never had such mean things said about me. Like constantly.'