Jim Belushi urged to Chris Farley to stop using drugs

• Jim revealed his chats with the late Saturday Night Live star.
• Jim acknowledged that he temporarily experimented with narcotics after his brother’s passing.
• Spade, 58, then interjected and discussed Farley’s crush on John.

Jim Belushi tried his utmost to prevent the actor from doing drugs. Jim revealed his chats with the late Saturday Night Live star, in which he begged Farley to give up narcotics after losing his brother John Belushi to an overdose, in a two-part tribute episode of David Spade and Dana Carvey’s podcast Fly on the Wall.

Jim, 68, emphasized how much he cherished Farley and “had a special connection” to him because “he had such a special connection, passion, and love” for his brother John.

“When he would see me, he would light up, and I’d be like, ‘Chris, I’m not John,'” Jim recalled.

Jim claimed that Farley frequently gushed about John, which alarmed him, particularly given that Farley was abusing drugs at the time.

“I said, ‘You got to stop chasing him, Chris. He’s gone. He’s gone,'” he recalled, adding that Farley would reply, “‘I know, I know. But I love him so much. He was so good.'”

Jim went on: “Chris, you can’t follow John, I replied. You are unable to find his trail. The person used drugs. He’s gone. You can’t use drugs to track him down to find out who he was.”

Jim acknowledged that he temporarily experimented with narcotics after his brother’s passing while warning Farley to avoid doing so and even shared this experience with Farley as a warning.

“I did it myself right after John died. I kind of increased my intake to try to get close to what John must have been feeling. And then one day I go, ‘What the f— am I doing?’ And then I just cleaned up and stopped,” he said. “But I told him that story too and I said, ‘You’ve got to stop. You got to f—ing stop, Chris.’ … and I just kept repeating it.”

“It wasn’t very successful,” Jim somberly added. “Addiction is an obsessive behavior, and it just extended into obsessing about John.”

Spade, 58, then interjected and discussed Farley’s crush on John.

“I think he saw himself growing up going, ‘Oh, there’s a guy like me and he’s from Chicago.’ And he would always talk about [it]… And he’d bob his head like [Dan] Aykroyd,” he explained. “I said, ‘You’re as good as Belushi’ toward the end. I said, ‘I sound crazy but as great as he was, you’re up there, dude.'”

“And the truth was, he was great. And again, cutting it short for a crowd that could’ve seen a lot more,” Spade continued. “And you’re right, there’s no telling him no. And if you say it too much, we would have problems because he goes away from people that do that, and that’s just normal for addicts.”

Jim concurred with Spade’s assertion and added, “That is typical addictive conduct. Even John said something intriguing at the conclusion, which was that Danny [Aykroyd] didn’t know any of the people that were with John when he died. Neither of them. As a result, addicts tend to build up a support system and a circle of friends who indulge them in their vices.”

On March 5, 1982, John’s body was discovered at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. He had a fatal mix of cocaine and heroin in his system.

Farley, who was most remembered for appearing as a cast member on five seasons of SNL from 1990 to 1995, also tragically passed away at age 33 from a drug overdose on December 18, 1997.

In addition to Jim, other well-known figures that visited Spade and Carvey’s podcast to pay respect to Farley on Wednesday included Adam Sandler, Conan O’Brien, Bo Derek, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, and Jon Lovitz.

Every Wednesday, new episodes of the Fly on the Wall podcast, produced by Cadence13, are released on various podcasting services.

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