Andy Dick gives update after apparent overdose scare

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00:00uh andy dick said he was alive that's good to know okay he was alive after he was spotted slumped

00:06over in the street from an apparent drug overdose so he spoke to tmz by phone on tuesday night

00:13telling them that he was alive and okay but he would not disclose exactly what happened we reached

00:19out to andy dick for comment but he we did not immediately hear back call us back andy we are

00:25dying to talk to you earlier on tuesday andy was hunched over while sitting on a stair stairs

00:33outside of a building in hollywood and in one photo andy he appeared to be unresponsive

00:39he was slumped over and he at one point he was sprawled on his back on the ground as a man stood

00:47over him it was a very uh yeah harrowing is the perfect word uh so apparently his pals ran over

00:59to him and attempted to revive him others called an ambulance tmz reported that he was administered

01:06a shot of narcan which is if you don't know a life-saving medication that quickly reverses

01:10opioid overdoses um so yeah he's going through it has been yeah yeah and i'm glad he survived this

01:19one because he's been he has struggled with addiction over the years i know andy i'm sending

01:24good energy i know when i saw those photos i kind of was stopped in my tracks just because

01:29they were really terrifying and just scary and you hate to see anybody in situations like that so i

01:36hope he's surrounded by people who can give him some extra support right now and just some some

01:43care and everything like that but uh yeah and like he's made efforts in the past to try yeah get better

01:49and to to kick his addiction i mean he was he's he's had stints of being clean and sober he had a podcast

01:56where he spoke to different kinds of specialists and doctors and basically it was kind of like a self-help

02:03journey for himself to see if he could stay sober and like i think he was just like looking for ways to

02:09be clean permanently yeah um but you know addiction she came back and it's okay pick yourself up and try

02:17again as aliyah said uh-huh you know it's i'm but i'm glad that he's alive and okay and he you know i

02:23will say after such a harrowing event like a nearly like fatal overdose to be on the phone with tmz the next

02:32day i mean that's kudos kudos to you andy dick celebrities used to be built different yeah you

02:38know what i mean yeah like that yeah you're like oh my god who are you gonna call tmz yeah this is

02:43such a it just you don't see stories like this anymore and it's you really don't see photos like

02:49this anymore it feels very charlie sheen 2011 uh it's actually very kind of like tara reed tara reed in

02:57the hotel bar in chicago slumped in the wheelchair unresponsive she said she was allegedly drugged

03:06someone spiked her drink with something that caused her to go unconscious and end up in the

03:12hospital that's a whole mystery that we're still trying to figure out so yeah it's actually some i

03:16don't know something's in the air well and also because i know the holidays get extra hard for people

03:20too this time of year because it's like the holly and jolly but also it's like you burnt out you're

03:25stressed it's cold out you're tired family's annoying you sometimes so just give yourself

03:29some grace take care of yourself take care of you know what i mean just everyone everyone be good

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