Dave Chapelle is in a Mental Hospital?
I went and checked my hits today on my website and they are up by over 500% and it's 10 a.m. Somebody want to tell me why everyone in the world is searching for "Dave Chapelle in a mental hospital"? - I guess I'll go find out myself.
UPDATE: Thanks to
Technorati - which has superseded Google when it comes to my illegitimate news sources - -
apparently Dave went nuts.
He hasn't been seen on set for weeks. His hit show has been shut down. His friends are speculating on various reasons for his purported meltdown.
Now comes word that Dave Chappelle is undergoing treatment in a psychiatric facility in South Africa.
Quoting an unnamed source "close to the situation," Entertainment Weekly said Wednesday that the comedian flew to South Africa late last month and voluntarily checked himself into the undisclosed facility. There is no word on the nature of his ailment or how long he will be hospitalized.
Personally this sounds like a hoax to me. I never really pictured Dave in the same boat as Sam or Robin or Richard or anyone with major cocain or heroin issues. Because it's the nuts that leads to the drugs and the drugs that leads to the white padded room. But you never know - he's a smart mother fucker - smart mother fuckers sometimes break down.
Another acquaintance alluded to the Half-Baked star's partying. "I wouldn't say it's out of control," the purported pal dished to Newsweek, "but at some point that has to affect you if you've got a regular gig." Chappelle's camp has categorically denied he was abusing drugs.
Dude let the man party. He's earned it. And you know what - - - if he did go now - - - he would be such a legend - - - and not end up like Eddie doing Dr. Doolittle movies for a couple million.
