Andy Dick says he’s “110 %” positive after video of him slumped over unresponsive on some steps from an obvious overdose in Hollywood circulated this week.
The comic and convicted intercourse offender has been updating quite a few shops concerning the incident, telling the New York Submit on Friday that he believes fentanyl is accountable for his medical emergency. This follows his Wednesday interview with TMZ wherein he talked about he doesn’t “thoughts doing a bit of crack [cocaine] from time to time.”
“It needs to be [fentanyl],” Dick stated to the Submit, explaining that paramedics advised his associates that the artificial opioid was the doubtless trigger. “That’s the one factor that may kill you that rapidly, like I simply dropped.”
Dick recounted to each shops how he was out with associates Tuesday when he noticed a stranger waving him over. He then “snuck away” briefly and did some medicine.
“There was a man that was my age and I felt for him,” Dick stated to TMZ. “He was depressed and he was on the sidewalk … after which he whipped out [what looked like] crack. And I’m like, you recognize what, I would want a bit of little bit of that.”
He advised the Submit that he then “simply dropped,” however declined to elaborate any additional.
In response to Shawn Harrell, who got here throughout the scene as associates have been making an attempt to revive the unresponsive comic and was current when first responders arrived, Dick was in fairly dangerous form Tuesday.
“He was blue. His arms [were] blue and his face was blue,” Harrell advised Folks. “His physique was limp. It was like deadweight. … I assumed he handed away.”
However after being administered some Narcan, the model identify of a drugs used to reverse opioid overdoses, Dick reportedly was capable of depart the realm with a buddy and was not transported to a hospital.
“It was a gaggle effort,” one in every of Dick’s associates stated to TMZ.
In response to the Submit, Dick’s feedback about crack have been meant to be a joke.
“I jokingly stated ‘a bit of crack from time to time [is] not gonna kill anyone,’ nevertheless it killed me,” Dick stated. “It killed me. I died, you recognize, my lips turned purple.”
Dick has a historical past of incidents involving medicine and alcohol, together with arrests for public intoxication, drug possession, sexual misconduct and home violence. He reportedly indulges in additional alcohol than medicine, in line with a Friday TMZ report.
