John Candy’s son, Chris, said during a recent event promoting the new documentary “ John Candy: I Like Me ” (via People ) that it was “heart-wrenching” to see resurfaced press interviews in the film where journalists openly mocked Candy’s weight to his face.

“I was kind of shocked to see how interviewers treat him,” Chris said. “That was just kind of heart-wrenching. And I also could see how he got more frustrated and he found ways to deal with that… I learned through the process of this [documentary] that he was so nervous about eating in front of people because of paparazzi. He developed a poor eating habit where he’d be like, ‘Alright, well I’m not going to eat all day. I’m going to eat at night.’”

Chris continued, “When I hear stories like that I just felt so bad for him because

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