“Community” alum Yvette Nicole Brown speaks out amid Chevy Chase doc: 'Keep my name out of your mouth'
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Shania RussellDecember 31, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Yvette Nicole Brown and Chevy Chase
Yvette Nicole Brown is speaking out ahead of the release of CNN's Chevy Chase doc, which will address a tense incident between the Community co-stars that allegedly involved Chase saying the N-word.
Brown, who starred alongside Chase for several seasons of the popular sitcom, posted a statement to Instagram on Tuesday, addressing recent chatter surrounding the film without ever directly naming her former costar.
"These are things I’ve never spoken of publicly and perhaps never will," Brown began the post. "Anyone currently speaking FOR or ABOUT me with perceived authority is speaking without EVER speaking to me about the things they claim to know about. They actually don’t really know me — at all."
She continued, "They also have no knowledge of my relationship with anyone I’ve worked with & cannot credibly speak on any current or previous issues. I hate that this all had to be said. In East Cleveland speak: Keep my name out of your mouth."
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Yvette Nicole Brown attends the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations Presents "Zootopia 2" event on Dec. 15, 2025 in Los Angeles.
The incident in question is described in the upcoming documentary, I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, by director Jay Chandrasekhar, who claims he was "there, directing, the night that Chevy Chase got fired from Community."
He goes on to describe the alleged incident in detail, explaining that it began with a "blackface hand puppet" storyline that was written for Chase's "tone-deaf character," Pierce Hawthorne. Chandrasekhar recalled that filming began to derail after Chase allegedly "said something" to Brown that he did not hear.
"I know that there was a history between [Chevy and Yvette] around race, and she got up and stormed out of there," claimed Chandrasekhar, who alleged that when Chase returned to set a little while later, he told the director he "didn't say anything" to Brown and had not apologized. The situation escalated when someone leaked to The Hollywood Reporter that a "racial incident" happened on set.
According to the director, this led to Chase having a "full meltdown," shouting, "Who f---ed me over?! … My career is ruined! I’m ruined! F--- all of you!" Chandrasekhar added that Chase "never ended up coming back after that."
Chase left the series after season 4, returning for a brief appearance in season 5.
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The cast of 'Community'
Alongside Brown and Chase, Community starred breakouts Donald Glover, Alison Brie, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, and Jim Rash. None of the show's cast members agreed to participate in the documentary about Chase, which tracks the comedian’s rise to fame as one of the original stars of Saturday Night Live, his blockbuster movie years with the National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise, and his later reputation as a difficult collaborator, including his 2012 exit from Community.
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Brown captioned her statement by explaining her decision to stay out of the conversation. "Do your own work so you don't become labor for others. That is my motto," she wrote. "Beyond that truth, if I have something to say, I have NO problem saying it. I've never had a problem speaking up and out with my whole chest when it is warranted or when I think it will change a wayward mind or some truly disgusting behavior."
She continued, "When I choose NOT to speak on something it's usually because it won't change a thing and more importantly because it's most likely tawdry, low-vibrational or dumb and therefore BENEATH me. I don't sully myself for anyone. We don't defile over here. And when someone chooses to sully or defile themselves, I let them -- BIG age or not."
She concluded, "Read between whatever lines you need to, but before you run anywhere with anything I've said here, make sure YOU know what YOU'RE talking about, too. Mmkay? I will not be saying another word about any of this mess... again, because it is beneath me. No one else should be chiming in on MY behalf, either."
on Entertainment Weekly
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