Chris Farley’s brother Tom speaks about the addiction that killed the comic actor, urges treatment
CHICAGO — In a quiet few minutes before he spoke to a full auditorium in suburban Niles on last week, Tom Farley talked about the default emotion — humor — of his boisterous Irish-American family in Madison, Wisconsin.
One of the biggest generators of laughs was little brother Chris Farley, whose meteoric entertainment career in the 1990s is the main draw when Tom Farley embarks on his speaking circuit to advocate for recovery programs for substance abuse and addiction, like this one organized by Niles Family Services.
“We were all very competitive, very funny, the
