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Actor and comedian Andy Dick was found unresponsive from an apparent drug overdose in Hollywood on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
A video obtained by TMZ<\/a> shows bystanders trying to help Dick, who is slumped over on some steps outside a building. One person shouts at him to \u201cwake up,\u201d while others mention calling an ambulance. Another bystander says to get him some Narcan<\/a>, the brand name of a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses. <\/p>\n The outlet confirmed that the Los Angeles Fire Department and Los Angeles Police Department responded to an overdose call at the location. Neither department confirmed the identity of the 59-year old man, and he was reportedly not taken to a hospital. <\/p>\n Dick reportedly told TMZ that \u201che\u2019s alive and relieved he\u2019s OK\u201d Tuesday evening, but did not provide any additional details. <\/p>\n Known for his sketch comedy work on TV programs such as \u201cThe Ben Stiller Show\u201d and \u201cThe Andy Dick Show,\u201d Dick has a history of troubling incidents involving drugs and alcohol. In 2023, Dick was arrested<\/a> in Lake Elsinore and charged with public intoxication and failing to register as a sex offender. This followed his 2022 arrest<\/a> on suspicion of felony sexual battery in Orange County. That same year, Dick was sentenced to 90 days<\/a> after being found guilty of groping an Uber driver in West Hollywood in 2018. <\/p>\n Dick was accused<\/a> of grabbing a man\u2019s genitals in New Orleans in 2019. In 2008 he was arrested<\/a> on suspicion of sexual battery and drug possession after being accused of fondling the breast of a teenage girl while heavily intoxicated at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Murrietta. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actor and comedian Andy Dick was found unresponsive from an apparent drug overdose in Hollywood on Tuesday. A video obtained by TMZ shows bystanders trying to help Dick, who is slumped over on some steps outside a building. One person shouts at him to \u201cwake up,\u201d while others mention calling an ambulance. Another bystander says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2194284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Andy-Dick-gives-health-update-following-video-of-apparent-overdose.com2F102Fd72F027c60fd41acad1f287862f6.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194285,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194283\/revisions\/2194285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}