The comedian, 59, explained how he ended up in such a state in broad daylight on Hollywood Boulevard as his worried friends rushed to his side to try and revive him
Earlier this week, in truly shocking scenes, famous comedian Andy Dick was spotted collapsed on a Hollywood pavement following an apparent drug overdose.
Jarring footage showed the star, 59, slumped over and seated on steps outside his building in broad daylight on December 9. Dick, wearing checked pyjama trousers and black Crocs, was seen with his glasses lying on the ground before him alongside a yellow can of drink.
Andy’s friends rushed to his aid in an attempt to rouse him, shouting “wake up!” One of his concerned friends then says he’s going to “call an ambulance.” While one witness said Andy was given Narcan on the scene, a nasal spray often used to counteract opioid overdoses.
The clip, shared on TMZ, was followed by another video showing Dick being interviewed the day after his ordeal, along with his two friends. In it, he explained how he met a “depressed” guy a similar age to him who was sat down on the pavement.
After sitting with the stranger, Dick said: “He whipped out some crack and I’m like, you know what, I might need a little bit of that. I wanted to see what he was doing, and also, I don’t mind doing a little bit of crack every now and then.”
One of his friends clarified that he had been livestreaming that day when the incident unfolded and wanted to keep on filming so it “was on record because that doesn’t usually happen”. Dick, dressed in black suit and tie, then refused the suggestion of going into rehab.
Drug struggles
Dick has been candid about his battle with addiction. Despite his words this week, in 2016 he revealed he had sought rehab more than 20 times for his drug dependency. He told Vice: “I would always say that I didn’t have a problem with drugs and alcohol. But I would drink when I was happy, when I was sad, when I was anxious.
“Without drugs or alcohol, I was depressed, frustrated, angry. Honestly, it just stopped being fun when I was crawling around on the floor to find the phone, not able to dial because both my hands were shaking.
“When I would get ahold of one of the recovery centres, they would hang up when they found out it was me. No one wanted to help me because I was unhelpable. Why would they bring me in just to have me die in their bed?”
Groping allegations
Back in 2019, he was required to sign the sex offenders register after inappropriately touching an Uber driver in the genitals. Dick entered a not guilty plea but was found guilty and spent 90 days banged up.
Along with registering as a sex offender, he was ordered to compensate the victim financially and attend mental health counselling, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Sexual Compulsives Anonymous. Then in 2021, he was arrested for felony assault with a deadly weapon and walked free from jail the following day after posting bail.
He was arrested on two occasions in 2022, first for felony sexual battery and then for felony burglary. Last April, he raised alarm bells in Los Angeles after a witness claimed the actor “was sitting and talking to himself” and “seemed incoherent.”
While January 2023, he was nicked in Lake Elsinore, California after allegedly causing a scene at a local bar. He was booked into the county jail for alleged public intoxication and failing to register as a sex offender, which he was required to do due to his earlier groping conviction.
Jon Lovitz feud
The comedian also has a long-running feud with fellow comic and actor Jon Lovitz. Once castmates on the hit sitcom ‘NewsRadio’, their friendship soured after the death of performer Phil Hartman in 1998.
Lovitz was close to Phil and has long been frustrated with Dick’s role in events leading up to the tragedy. According to long-established reports, Lovitz believed Dick gave Phil’s wife cocaine at a Christmas party in 1997, leading to a relapse after she had been sober for years.
In 1998, she fatally shot her husband while he slept following an argument between the pair. Soon after she shot and killed herself, leaving their two young children without any parents.
Tensions between Dick and Jon first exploded publicly years later when, in early 2007, the former allegedly confronted Lovitz at a Los Angeles restaurant, saying he had put a “Phil Hartman hex” on him and that he would be the “next to die.”
Lovitz was left stunned by the remark. The simmering resentment finally boiled over on July 10, 2007, at Hollywood’s Laugh Factory comedy club when he demanded an apology for the hex comment.
Source: Mirror
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