Andy Dick says he is “110 percent” fine after video circulated in Hollywood this week of him slumped unresponsive on some steps due to an apparent overdose.
The comedian and convicted sex offender has been updating numerous outlets about the incident and told the New York Post on Friday that he believes fentanyl is to blame for his medical emergency. This follows his Wednesday interview with TMZ in which he mentioned that he doesn't “mind doing a little crack.” [cocaine] from time to time.”
“It has to be [fentanyl]”Dick told the Post, explaining that paramedics told his friends that the synthetic opioid was the likely cause. “That's the only thing that can kill you so quickly, like I just fell.”
Dick told both outlets how he was out with friends on Tuesday when he saw a stranger waving him over. He then “snuck away” briefly and did some drugs.
“There was a guy my age and I felt for him,” Dick told TMZ. “He was depressed and he was on the sidewalk… and then he ran away [what looked like] crack. And I say, you know what? Maybe I need a little bit of that.”
He told the Post that he then “just quit,” but declined to elaborate.
According to Shawn Harrell, who arrived on the scene while friends were trying to revive the unresponsive comedian and was present when first responders arrived, Dick was in pretty bad shape Tuesday.
“He was blue. His hands [were] blue and his face was blue,” Harrell told People. “His body was limp. It was like dead weight. … I thought he had passed away.”
But after he was administered Narcan, the brand of a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses, Dick was able to leave the area with a friend and was not transported to a hospital.
“It was a group effort,” one of Dick's friends told TMZ.
According to the Post, Dick's comments about crack cocaine were intended as a joke.
“I jokingly said 'a little crack every now and then [is] “I'm not going to kill anybody,” but it killed me,” Dick said. “It killed me. I died, you know, my lips turned purple.”
Dick has a history of drug and alcohol-related incidents, including arrests for public intoxication, drug possession, sexual misconduct, and domestic violence. He reportedly consumes more alcohol than drugs, according to a Friday TMZ report.
