Actor and comic Andy Dick was discovered unresponsive from an obvious drug overdose in Hollywood on Tuesday.
A video obtained by TMZ reveals bystanders attempting to assist Dick, who’s slumped over on some steps exterior a constructing. One particular person shouts at him to “get up,” whereas others point out calling an ambulance. One other bystander says to get him some Narcan, the model title of a medicine used to reverse opioid overdoses.
The outlet confirmed that the Los Angeles Fireplace Division and Los Angeles Police Division responded to an overdose name on the location. Neither division confirmed the id of the 59-year previous man, and he was reportedly not taken to a hospital.
Dick reportedly advised TMZ that “he’s alive and relieved he’s OK” Tuesday night, however didn’t present any extra particulars.
Identified for his sketch comedy work on TV applications similar to “The Ben Stiller Present” and “The Andy Dick Present,” Dick has a historical past of troubling incidents involving medication and alcohol. In 2023, Dick was arrested in Lake Elsinore and charged with public intoxication and failing to register as a intercourse offender. This adopted his 2022 arrest on suspicion of felony sexual battery in Orange County. That very same yr, Dick was sentenced to 90 days after being discovered responsible of groping an Uber driver in West Hollywood in 2018.
Dick was accused of grabbing a person’s genitals in New Orleans in 2019. In 2008 he was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery and drug possession after being accused of fondling the breast of a teenage woman whereas closely intoxicated at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Murrietta.
