Chevy Chase had a “full meltdown” after he was fired from “Neighborhood” for utilizing the n-word, director Jay Chandrasekhar stated within the upcoming CNN documentary “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.”
In keeping with Chandrasekhar, the issues started when Chase’s character was utilizing a “blackface” hand puppet. Chase “stated one thing” to costar Yvette Nicole Brown, Chandrasekhar added, although he stated he didn’t know precisely what that was. (On the time, it was reported Chase used a slur that was not directed at Brown or at Donald Glover, who was additionally on set.)
“I do know that there was a historical past between [Chevy and Yvette] round race, and he or she received up and stormed out of there,” the director added. “Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, ‘We want Yvette within the scene, proper?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, she’s within the subsequent scene.’ And he goes, ‘Effectively, she received’t come out except Chevy apologizes to her.’”
When requested to apologize, Chase stated he “didn’t say something.”
“He goes, ‘You recognize, me and Richard Pryor, I used to name Richard Pryor the N-word, and he used to name me The Honky, and we liked one another.’ And I’m like, ‘I do know, man, I really like that bit.’ I stated, ‘You recognize, can we simply have somewhat apology?’ He goes, ‘For what?’” Chandrasekhar added.
The revelation is considered one of a number of within the documentary. His daughter, Caley, revisited a scary 2021 second throughout which Chase spent eight days in a coma after being hospitalized for coronary heart failure.
Individuals quoted Caley as having defined, “Effectively, I imply, he’s 80-something and has principally come again from the lifeless. Oh my God, he had coronary heart failure. Have they talked about that in any respect? It’s so onerous to speak about.”
His spouse, Jayni Chase, additionally stated, “One thing was fallacious, and he couldn’t clarify to me what was fallacious. So, we go to the ER. His coronary heart stops. Throughout these years he was ingesting, he received cardiomyopathy — when the guts muscle mass get weaker, and so they can’t pump as a lot blood out with every beat.”
