Andy Dick discovered “five to seven holes” in his brain following the near-fatal drug overdose he suffered in December.
The troubled comedian, 60, opened up about the scary incident and its aftermath while on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast Tuesday.
“You were dead. Were you dead?” Mandel, 70, asked Dick. “Did your heart stop? Like legitimately, clinically dead?”
Although Dick confirmed that his heart stopped and he was “not breathing” after the overdose, he also clarified that he had no recollection of the incident until “waking up in the ambulance.”
“There were no bright lights. I wish [there were], I’d go back,” the “NewsRadio” alum joked.
But Dick also revealed that he received a brain scan shortly after being revived that found holes in his brain due to his years of drug and alcohol abuse.
“They did a CAT scan thing, or whatever they call it in your brain, and I have all these – there’s about five to seven holes,” he told Mandel.
These holes, which are known as lesions, can develop for a multitude of reasons, including traumatic brain injuries, chronic stress, and more, per the Cleveland Clinic.
Dick’s rep, however, clarified to Page Six that the holes in the comedian’s brain are from a prior incident that Dick suffered seven years.
“The issue with his brain is from the 2019 attack that almost killed Andy when an unprovoked attacker cold-cocked Andy while he was outside of the club he and Paris Dylan had just performed,” the comedian’s rep told us in a statement.
“We are assured that his brain will heal,” he added.
The rep also acknowledged that while Dick “has been battling his addictions for years,” he is “healthy, sober and doing great” following the incident this past December.
Dick’s friends, Adam Carbone and Alexander Bailey, were filming the “Road Trip” star in Hollywood on Dec. 9 when he ran off and smoked crack cocaine with a random man on the street.
A video obtained by TMZ showed Dick slumped over on the cement stairs of a building while bystanders called an ambulance and tried to help the “Employee of the Month” actor regain consciousness.
He was ultimately administered four shots of Narcan, a life-saving medication that quickly reverses opioid overdoses, and regained consciousness.
The former “Andy Dick Show” star, who has a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, went on to check himself into a rehabilitation center in Palm Springs a few days after the incident – before checking himself out of the facility less than two months later.
Dick previously looked back on his near-fatal overdose and subsequent rehab stint during an exclusive chat with Page Six in January.
“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 told us.
He added, “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.”
As for his most recent rehab stay, Dick said that it felt “different” from his “many” previous trips.
“This one feels different, I think, mostly because I actually legit died, and I can’t believe I came back to life,” he shared.
Dick was most recently spotted being pushed around Los Angeles in a wheelchair last month.
If you or someone you care about is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
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