Andy Dick is reflecting on the near-fatal drug overdose that landed him in rehab for nearly two months.
“[I’ve been to rehab] many, many, many, many, many times. This one feels different, I think, mostly because I actually legit died, and I can’t believe I came back to life,” the comedian told Page Six in an exclusive phone interview Monday after checking out of a treatment center in Palm Springs, Calif.
Dick, 60, made sure to credit his documentarians-turned-friends, Adam Carbone and Alexander “Billy John Oh” Bailey, with saving his life on Dec. 9, 2025.
“It looks bad on [my family and friends] when I f–k up. They get s–t on as well. … But I’m my own worst enemy, as they say,” he acknowledged.
“They weren’t there giving me drugs, which people think. No, I escaped from them to go be ‘Bad Andy.’ And I got away from them, but they followed me, but it was too late. I had ran into a group of people and just did drugs as quickly as I could and promptly died.”
Carbone and Bailey were filming Dick on the streets of Hollywood when he ran off, saw a man smoking crack cocaine and took a hit.
A video of the unresponsive actor — which showed him slumped over on the cement stairs of a building, with his glasses on the ground in front of him — quickly went viral.
In the footage, a panicked Bailey was seen leaning Dick back and administering Narcan, a nasal spray medication used to reverse opioid overdoses.
Dick told us it took four doses for him to regain consciousness, and once he did, his mind was on one thing.
“This is not funny, and I don’t remember this, but they say I came back to life, sat up and the first thing outta my mouth was, ‘Where’s the vodka?’” Dick revealed. “I don’t remember. I was still out of it … just coming back from death and Narcan’d up. I was out of my mind.”
Carbone, who was on the phone as well, said he and the responding paramedics encouraged Dick to go to the hospital. Dick, however, “wanted to go to the bar.”
Asked whether alcohol is his true “kryptonite,” the “Andy Dick Show” star lamented, “It really is. I was telling somebody just today, I was saying, ‘I would be lying if I said I’m not thinking about drinking now, but I don’t want it. I don’t want it to be out of my life forever, but I think maybe it has to be out of my life forever.’”
He quickly remembered the recovery mantra of focusing on “one day at a time.”
Despite Dick’s immediate opposition to going to rehab, he changed his tune just a few days later after his former “Sober House” co-star Jennifer Gimenez and her husband, Tim Ryan, got him a “full-ride scholarship offer” to the Palm Springs treatment center.
“Thank God I went to that place. I loved it. I met some great people,” gushed Dick, who now resides at a sober living facility near Beverly Hills.
Though the sober living facility has “the same rules” as rehab, Dick noted that he is “encouraged” to leave the house and experience life.
If you or someone you know if affected by any of the issues raised in this story, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
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