{"id":27418,"date":"2019-07-22T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T15:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1058493"},"modified":"2019-07-22T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T15:48:23","slug":"david-spade-opens-up-about-the-tragic-deaths-of-kate-spade-and-chris-farley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/david-spade-opens-up-about-the-tragic-deaths-of-kate-spade-and-chris-farley\/","title":{"rendered":"David Spade Opens Up About the Tragic Deaths of Kate Spade and Chris Farley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jon Kopaloff\/Getty Images, Andrew Toth\/Getty Images for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Joseph Marzullo\/Mediapunch\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s been a little over a year since Kate Spade<\/a><\/strong>‘s tragic death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

David Spade<\/a><\/strong> reflected on his sister-in-law’s passing in a new interview with The New York Times<\/a> <\/em>published Monday. <\/p>\n

“Katy was so funny,” he told the newspaper. “I don’t know if agoraphobic is a word, but she didn’t like to mingle a lot; she’d have people at her house and she was always so funny.” <\/p>\n

The fashion designer was found unconscious and unresponsive<\/a> in her New York apartment on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. The Medical Examiner’s Office ruled her death suicide by hanging. Her husband, Andy Spade<\/strong>, later revealed she had “suffered from anxiety and depression for many years<\/a>,” and that she was “actively seeking help and working closely with her doctors to treat her disease.” <\/p>\n

“I feel like Katy wouldn’t have done it, five minutes later,” David said. “But these things happen and there’s no going back.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Sadly, this wasn’t the first time the comedy star had lost a loved one. According to The New York Times<\/em>, his stepfather took his own life when David was 15. He also had a few “close friends” pass away during his high school and college years.<\/p>\n

“People just started going right and left, and I would sit and stare at a wall,” David recalled, later adding: “I just said, ‘OK, I guess I’ll cross my fingers that it doesn’t happen to everyone.’ And more people would go.”<\/p>\n

David also recently mourned the death of comedian Brody Stevens<\/strong>\u2014who frequently opened his acts and committed suicide in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, he said he still receives hateful comments from fans mourning the death of Chris Farley\u2014<\/strong>who died of a drug overdose in 1997\u2014<\/a>including one that read, “I wish you died instead of Chris Farley.”<\/p>\n

“The first couple times it was rough,” he told The New York Times<\/em>, “but now it’s the standard burn. I wish I didn’t get that three times a week.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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In fact, he suspects that some fans will never get used to seeing him without his Saturday Night Live<\/em> and Tommy Boy<\/em> co-star.<\/p>\n

“But do you just stop doing what you’re doing because of a tragedy?” he asked. “You have to go, ‘Well, I still like doing this.’ Some people won’t be interested. But I did three sitcoms after that. It wasn’t totally horrible.”<\/p>\n

While experiencing all of these losses hasn’t been easy, David continues to move forward. He’s even starring in a new late-night series called Lights Out With David Spade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to say I’m immune to it,” he said, “but there’s a way you just have to learn to shut off the tear valve. It’s just too brutal.” <\/p>\n

To read his full interview, check out The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Kopaloff\/Getty Images, Andrew Toth\/Getty Images for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Joseph Marzullo\/Mediapunch\/Shutterstock It’s been a little over a year since Kate Spade‘s tragic death. David Spade reflected on his sister-in-law’s passing in a new interview with The New York Times published Monday.  “Katy was so funny,” he told the newspaper. “I don’t know if agoraphobic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 22:54:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}