{"id":2252915,"date":"2026-01-27T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2252915"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:42:11","slug":"cant-believe-i-came-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cant-believe-i-came-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Can&#8217;t believe I came back to life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Andy Dick is reflecting on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/10\/celebrity-news\/andy-dick-sparks-fears-of-overdose-after-being-found-unresponsive\/\">the near-fatal drug overdose<\/a> that landed him in rehab for nearly two months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I\u2019ve been to rehab] <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/video\/inside-andy-dicks-apparent-drug-overdose-decades-long-addiction-battle\/\">many, many, many, many, many times<\/a>. This one feels different, I think, mostly because I <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/10\/celebrity-news\/comedian-andy-dick-turned-blue-needed-more-than-one-narcan-spray-to-be-saved-after-apparent-overdose\/\">actually legit died<\/a>, and I can\u2019t believe I came back to life,\u201d the comedian told Page Six in an exclusive phone interview Monday after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/26\/celebrity-news\/andy-dick-checks-out-of-rehab-enters-sober-living-facility-after-suffering-overdose\/\">checking out of a treatment center<\/a> in Palm Springs, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Dick, 60, made sure to credit his documentarians-turned-friends, Adam Carbone and Alexander \u201cBilly John Oh\u201d Bailey, with saving his life on Dec. 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks bad on [my family and friends] when I f\u2013k up. They get s\u2013t on as well. \u2026 But I\u2019m my own worst enemy, as they say,\u201d he acknowledged.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Andy Dick told Page Six in an exclusive interview that he \u201cactually legit died\u201d when he overdosed on drugs on the streets of Hollywood in December 2025. <span class=\"credit\">NGRE \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201c[I\u2019ve been to rehab] many, many, many, many, many times. This one feels different,\u201d he said in an exclusive phone interview Monday night after checking out of a treatment center in Palm Springs, Calif. <span class=\"credit\">andydick\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThey weren\u2019t there giving me drugs, which people think. No, I escaped from them to go be \u2018Bad Andy.\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carbone and Bailey were filming Dick on the streets of Hollywood when he ran off, saw a man <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/10\/celebrity-news\/andy-dick-admits-he-smoked-crack-cocaine-ahead-of-apparent-overdose\/\">smoking crack cocaine and took a hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A video of the unresponsive actor \u2014 which showed him slumped over on the cement stairs of a building, with his glasses on the ground in front of him \u2014 quickly went viral.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The comedian admitted that he \u201cjust did drugs as quickly as [he] could and promptly died.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Dick told us it took four doses of Narcan for him to regain consciousness, and once he did, his mind was on drinking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the footage, a panicked Bailey was seen leaning Dick back and administering Narcan, a nasal spray medication used to\u00a0reverse opioid overdoses.<\/p>\n<p>Dick told us it took four doses for him to regain consciousness, and once he did, his mind was on one thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not funny, and I don\u2019t remember this, but they say I came back to life, sat up and the first thing outta my mouth was, \u2018Where\u2019s the vodka?&#8217;\u201d Dick revealed. \u201cI don\u2019t remember. I was still out of it \u2026 just coming back from death <em>and<\/em> Narcan\u2019d up. I was out of my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cThey say I came back to life, sat up and the first thing outta my mouth was, \u2018Where\u2019s the vodka?&#8217;\u201d he revealed. <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The actor, who \u201cwanted to go to the bar\u201d after, confessed that alcohol is his true \u201ckryptonite.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carbone, who was on the phone as well, said he and the responding paramedics encouraged Dick to go to the hospital. Dick, however, \u201cwanted to go to the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether alcohol <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/12\/celebrity-news\/andy-dicks-extensive-alcohol-addiction-revealed-after-crack-cocaine-induced-overdose\/\">is his true \u201ckryptonite,\u201d<\/a> the \u201cAndy Dick Show\u201d star lamented, \u201cIt really is. I was telling somebody just today, I was saying, \u2018I would be lying if I said I\u2019m not thinking about drinking now, but I don\u2019t want it. I don\u2019t want it to be out of my life forever, but I think maybe it has to be out of my life forever.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He quickly remembered the recovery mantra of focusing on \u201cone day at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cI would be lying if I said I\u2019m not thinking about drinking now, but I don\u2019t want it. I don\u2019t want it to be out of my life forever, but I think maybe it has to be out of my life forever,\u201d he shared. <span class=\"credit\">TMZ<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cThank God I went to that [rehab] place. I loved it. I met some great people,\u201d gushed Dick, who now resides at a sober living facility near Beverly Hills. <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite Dick\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/11\/celebrity-news\/comedian-andy-dick-refuses-to-enter-rehab-despite-crack-cocaine-induced-overdose\/\">immediate opposition to going to rehab<\/a>, he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/12\/celebrity-news\/comedian-andy-dick-checks-himself-into-rehab-after-crack-cocaine-overdose\/\">changed his tune<\/a> just a few days later after his\u00a0former \u201cSober House\u201d co-star Jennifer Gimenez and her husband, Tim Ryan, got him a \u201cfull-ride scholarship offer\u201d to the Palm Springs treatment center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank God I went to that place. I loved it. I met some great people,\u201d gushed Dick, who now resides at a sober living facility near Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Though the sober living facility has \u201cthe same rules\u201d as rehab, Dick noted that he is \u201cencouraged\u201d to leave the house and experience life.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>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).<\/strong><\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/12\/celebrity-news\/andy-dicks-extensive-alcohol-addiction-revealed-after-crack-cocaine-induced-overdose\/#\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Dick is reflecting on the near-fatal drug overdose that landed him in rehab for nearly two months. \u201c[I\u2019ve been to rehab] many, many, many, many, many times. This one feels different, I think, mostly because I actually legit died, and I can\u2019t believe I came back to life,\u201d the comedian told Page Six in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[386413,378245,344976,24003,351944,317655,25404,361266],"class_list":["post-2252915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-alcoholism","tag-andy-dick","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-drug-overdoses","tag-drugs","tag-exclusive","tag-rehab"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cant-believe-I-came-back-to-life.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252915","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=2252915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252917,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252915\/revisions\/2252917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}