Terry Sweeney, Yvette Nicole Brown Speak Out Against Chevy Chase Ahead Of CNN Doc: “So THAT’s Why He’s So Rotten!!!!!!!”

Chevy Chase is already facing backlash from some of the stars mentioned in CNN’s upcoming documentary chronicling his career, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.

Comedian Terry Sweeney, who was the first openly gay cast member on Saturday Night Live, slammed Chase in a series of comments to New York Post and The Hollywood Reporter after it was reported that the upcoming documentary mentions a joke Chase once made to him about AIDS when they were working together on SNL.

In the documentary, director Marina Zenovich tells Chase, “You said something to Sweeney like, ‘Oh you’re the gay guy. Why don’t we ask if you have AIDS. And every week, we weigh you.’”

“Terry Sweeney, he was very funny, this guy. I don’t think he’s alive anymore,” Chase responds in the documentary. Sweeney is still very much alive. In the doc, Chase also denies Sweeney’s claim that he was “furious” that he had to apologize for making the joke.

“None of that’s true, I would remember that. That I was angry, that I had to apologize to him? Good god, Chevy, what’s wrong with you. Of course I — that’s just not true,” he said. “My memory is that [Sweeney] is lying, is my memory. He’s not telling the truth. That isn’t me. That’s not who I am. And if I am that way, my life has changed, because I have to live with that now for the rest of my f–king life.” 

In a comment to the New York Post, Sweeney said Chase was “one of those turds you flush down the toilet but it comes back up again and again.” And he’s not the only celebrity who seems to be speaking out against the controversial comedian.

Sweeney did not hold back when sharing how he felt about Chase’s comments about the incident. “Don’t you think he is saying this and making himself look more like the ass he is!!!” he told THR.

After pointing out that his comments reflect “rightly horribly on him,” Sweeney also made it clear that he doesn’t feel particularly bad after hearing about Chase’s experience growing up with abusive parents, “Boohoo … poor screwed up kid … so THAT’s why he’s so rotten!!!!!!!”

Chase’s former Community co-star Yvette Nicole Brown also shared a statement to fans ahead of the documentary’s premiere, though she does not refer to the doc or her former co-star directly by name.

“These are things I’ve never spoken of publicly and perhaps never will,” Brown wrote in a statement shared on social media. “Anyone currently speaking FOR or ABOUT me with perceived authority is speaking without EVER speaking to me about the things they claim to know about. They actually don’t really know me — at all.”

She continued, “They also have no knowledge of my relationship with anyone I’ve worked with & cannot credibly speak on any current or previous issues. I hate that this all had to be said. In East Cleveland speak: Keep my name out of your mouth.”

I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not premieres on CNN Jan. 1.