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Chevy Chase, on his stay in the Betty Ford Center, in the June issue of Playboy magazine: “They get you to believe that you’re at death’s door, that your family is at death’s door, that you’ve ruined it for everybody, that you’re nothing. I was a little like Jack Nicholson in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ I became a rabble-rouser, getting on their cases for the way they were talking to the patients and the amount of blame they were shoving out and the amount of crying they were making people do. They used the phrase, ‘Thank you for sharing with us’ so much it made me go nuts.”