Through the course of his life, Farley sought treatment for obesity and drug abuse on seventeen separate occasions. On December of 1997, he was found dead in his apartment due to a cocaine and morphine overdose early that morning. Over five hundred people attended his funeral, many of them comedians who had worked with him on Saturday Night Live.
However, David Spade was absent. He was later quoted as saying that the declined to attend the funeral because he “could not be in a room where Chris was in a box.” However, Spade did make an appearance on the Special 25th anniversary episode of Saturday Night Live to call a moment of remembrance for Farley.
