Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, Entertainment Weekly said on Wednesday.
Chappelle’s location has been a mystery since Comedy Central announced last week that the planned May 31 launch of the third season of “Chappelle’s Show” had been postponed and production halted.
Chappelle flew from Newark to South Africa on April 28 for treatment, said the magazine, quoting a source close to the show it would not identify.
“We don’t know where he is,” Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said. “We’ve heard about South Africa. We don’t know. We haven’t talked to Dave.”
Chappelle’s spokesman, Matt Labov, would not elaborate on the magazine’s story.
“It seems like the issues he’s contending with are really quite serious,” said Dade Hayes, a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. “It isn’t a case of him spending a weekend someplace recuperating from exhaustion.”
The magazine’s sources say Chappelle is still in the facility, Hayes said. Chappelle’s representatives have denied that the comedian was in drug rehab.
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