Dave Chappelle recalls Hollywood Bowl attack aftermath, from his son embracing him to speaking to his alleged attacker

The Hollywood Reporter

At a secret standup show last night in an annex to the Comedy Store last night, Chappelle recounted being tackled onstage at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. According to The Hollywood Reporter's Abid Rahman and Seth Abramovitch, Chappelle described being embraced immediately after the incident by his son, who told him, “Dad, I love you.” Chappelle shouted out the many people who reached out after the incident: “A lot of people love me, it turns out,” he said of a group that included Louis C.K. After Isaiah Lee, Chappelle's alleged attacker, was taken into custody, Chappelle said, “I needed to talk to him." According to The Hollywood Reporter, "he asked Lee what possibly could have prompted his attack, to which Lee — who Chappelle said appeared to him to be mentally ill — offered a story about his grandmother from Brooklyn, who had been forced out of her neighborhood by gentrification. The attack was meant to draw attention to her plight, Chappelle recounted."

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