“SNL” alum Terry Sweeney calls out ‘so rotten’ Chevy Chase as CNN doc revisits AIDS controversy

Terry Sweeney shouldn’t be mincing phrases concerning the "so rotten" Chevy Chase.

In CNN Movies' upcoming documentary, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, Sweeney and Chase's decades-long feud is revisited, amongst different controversies. In it, director Marina Zenovich point-blank brings as much as Chase the claims that he had allegedly advised that Sweeney — who was the primary out homosexual forged member throughout Saturday Evening Reside's 1985-86 season — seem in a sketch on the present mocking the AIDS epidemic.

“You stated one thing to Sweeney like, ‘Oh, you’re the homosexual man. Why don’t we ask when you’ve got AIDS. And each week, we weigh you,'" Zenovich tells Chase.

She additionally reads to him from Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller’s SNL oral historical past, Reside From New York: The Full, Uncensored Historical past of Saturday Evening Reside as Instructed by Its Stars, Writers, and Friends. In it, Sweeney claims Chase later got here to his dressing room to apologize for the AIDS joke, however was “livid that he needed to apologize to me.”

In response, Chase says within the doc, “My reminiscence is that [Sweeney] is mendacity, is my reminiscence. He’s not telling the reality. That isn’t me. That’s not who I’m. And if I’m that method, my life has modified, as a result of I’ve to stay with that now for the remainder of my f—ing life."

Chase provides within the documentary, "Terry Sweeney, he was very humorous, this man. I don’t suppose he’s alive anymore."

Talking to The Hollywood Reporter via instant message, Sweeney reportedly responded, “Don’t you suppose he’s saying this and making himself look extra just like the ass he’s!!!”

Sweeney added of Chase's feedback within the doc, “All of it displays rightly horribly on him!”

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Within the movie, SNL creator Lorne Michaels additionally speaks to the alleged incident, saying, “I believe Chevy was simply being Chevy. He would say issues that had been humorous, and he would assume you had been comedy folks, and he may converse that method. You realize, we’d say horrible issues, as a result of that’s what would make us snicker.”

In response to THR, when requested a couple of completely different a part of the movie which claims that Chase was abused by his dad and mom as a toddler and it is a attainable clarification for his reported demeanor over time, Sweeney responded: "Boohoo … poor screwed up child … so THAT’s why he’s so rotten!!!!!!!”

Leisure Weekly has reached out to Chase’s consultant for additional remark.

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I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not premieres on Jan. 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN.

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