- Gerald Ford was one of the most athletically inclined presidents the U.S. has ever had.
- He had a few well-publicized moments of clumsiness.
- These moments were parodied on Saturday Night Live by Chevy Chase with dramatic pratfalls.
- Triggered by the frequency and severity of some of these pratfalls, Chevy Chase developed chronic pain from a degenerative disc disease.
- He was prescribed painkillers to help with the pain, and eventually became addicted to them.
- To overcome his addiction, he checked himself into the...that's right, you guessed it:
The Betty Ford Clinic.
True story.
4 comments:
what no Saddam ironies...(is that a word)
ok ok anonymous1, out!
Now that's funny.
(your post, not the above comment)
Where did you hear of this??
Interesting...and also interesting is how un-funny (that's not a word, either...) Chevy Chase became after he left the clinic.
ThirdFuerst,
I actually heard one of the network "talking heads" discussing this during the Gerald Ford funeral coverage. To make sure I had heard correctly, I checked some AP stories online, as well as Wikipedia. All the facts are there, though nobody saw fit to put them all together in a piece of irony (at least nobody I saw).
And you're right, Chevy Chase is the most un-funny formerly funny person I can think of.
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