Andy Dick has revealed the deadly drug he believes almost killed him after he collapsed on a Hollywood street in an exclusive phone call with The Post.
The comedian and convicted sex offender said he wanted to set the record straight after he previously told TMZ it was crack cocaine that caused him to slump over the concrete steps near a liquor store.
Dick said paramedics told his friends he likely smoked fentanyl.
“It has to be [fentanyl]. That’s the only thing that can kill you that quickly, like I just dropped,” the 59-year-old said.
Dick said that right before he overdosed he had “snuck away” from friends and to meet with a stranger to use drugs.
“I ran away from them to talk to a guy that was waving me over. I was like, ‘oh this guy probably has drugs,’ and I, I love drugs,” he said. “I don’t wanna get into exactly what happened, but I just dropped.”
In the troubling moment caught on camera, Dick’s face and hands turned blue as he collapsed forward while sitting on a step outside a liquor store before he was laid on his back by friends, Shawn Harrell told The Post.
Harrell, 48, works as a security guard for the strip mall where Highland Liquor is located, the scene of Dick’s apparent overdose Tuesday night.
The whole incident lasted about 10 minutes and Dick, 59, was not taken to a hospital, Harrell told The Post.
“I thought he’d passed away. They started spraying Narcan and tapping him on the chest. They were trying to keep him awake because he was non-responsive. They used more than one Narcan,” Harrell recounted. Narcan is generally a medication used to help people suffering opioid overdoses.
As for his previous comments about crack cocaine being to blame, the funny man claims he was merely cracking a joke.
“I jokingly said a little crack every now and then, not gonna kill anybody, but it killed me. It killed me. I died, you know, my lips turned purple,” he said.
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