Andy Dick is speaking out after a frightening ordeal on a Los Angeles sidewalk left bystanders scrambling to save his life.
According to the New York Post, the 59-year-old comedian told TMZ he’s “alive and relieved he’s OK,” offering only a brief acknowledgment of the incident that had strangers fearing the worst.
Earlier Tuesday, people walking through Dick’s Hollywood neighborhood found him slumped on a staircase with his eyes closed and his glasses on the ground.
According to witnesses, one person tried propping him upright while another yelled for Narcan — the opioid-overdose reversal medication kept on hand by many locals in the area. Someone produced a dose, administered it, and Dick reportedly regained consciousness moments later.
Dick didn’t explain what led up to the collapse or what he may have taken before losing consciousness, but the emergency revived longtime concerns about his decades-long struggle with addiction.
The actor has been candid about the depths of that battle. In a 2016 interview with Vice, Dick said he had attempted sobriety “20 times” by the end of 2014 and had reached a point where drinking had become a matter of life and death.
“I had to stop drinking, or I was going to die,” he said then, speaking from a sober-living home in Malibu. “I could see it very clearly. I was bleeding out of my ass. I was going to die.”
He described the emotional roller coaster that fueled his dependency: “I would drink when I was happy, when I was sad, when I was anxious. Without drugs or alcohol, I was depressed, frustrated, angry.”
Dick also shared how difficult it had been to find treatment. “When I would get hold of one of the recovery centers, they would hang up when they found out it was me,” he said. “No one wanted to help me because I was unhelpable. Why would they bring me in just to have me die in their bed?”
Those struggles have been compounded by a long string of legal problems. In 2021, he was arrested on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon. The following year brought arrests for felony sexual battery and felony burglary.
He was ordered to register as a sex offender after a previous conviction from 2018, and in 2023 he was arrested again — this time for public intoxication and failing to maintain that registration.
For now, the comedian has not publicly detailed what comes next. But after another brush with death, Dick’s only message was that he’s grateful to still be breathing.
