Andy Dick became discolored and needed multiple sprays of Narcan, according to a new eyewitness account of the comedian’s apparent overdose in Hollywood.
“He was turning blue,” local security guard Shawn Harrell, who works in the area, told The Poston Wednesday of the incident, which was captured in video obtained by TMZ.
“When I saw him first he was down, slumped over, and they pushed him up a little bit and he fell backwards. When they finally got him up his face and hands were blue.”
Harrell, 48, told the publication that he thought the comedian, 59, had “passed away.”
“They started spraying Narcan and tapping him on the chest,” Harrell recalled of the bystanders who administered the lifesaving drug, which effectively reverses opioid overdoses.
“They were trying to keep him awake because he was non-responsive. They used more than one Narcan.”
Harrell also recalled the paramedics coming and people “crowding around” the “Newsradio” alum, and noted that he “didn’t want to be part of the commotion.”
“I stood back and watched them do what they did,” he added of the Tuesday incident, which he estimated to be around 10 minutes.
“The paramedics had already left when the police were talking to him,” Harrell explained. “I was shocked they left him here.”
Harrell then recalled that although Dick “wasn’t saying anything” following the incident, “When it was all said and done he was back to normal.”
“It was like nothing happened,” Harrell shared. “He stood up and looked around, was walking around.”
After the “Andy Dick Show” personality was revived, Harrell joked to him, saying, “Hey, man, you left here and came back.”
Harrell noted, “I’ve heard stories about people getting high and when they try to bring them back they don’t want to come back.”
The security guard also said he recognized the actor, but “didn’t really know who the hell he was” and described him as appearing “clean-cut.”
“I watch a lot of comedy,” Harrell said. “His face looked familiar but I couldn’t put a name on it.”
Harrell admitted that the chaotic scene was surreal. “There were some guys with cell phone cameras,” he recalled. “I thought it was part of a movie.”
A rep for Dick and the LAPD didn’t immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment on the eyewitness account.
Following Dick’s apparent overdose, the actor told TMZ that he was alive and OK. He later shared more details with the outlet in an interview from his Los Angeles home, admitting that he smoked crack cocainewith a stranger he met in the area before the incident.
“Doesn’t it look like I’m 100 percent fine?” he asked the outlet during the on-camera interview, alongside two friends who were at the scene. “110 percent.”
Dick said a man, who he described as depressed, offered him crack cocaine and he accepted because he doesn’t “mind doing a little crack every now and then.”
After the actor met the random man and he “whipped out” the drugs, Dick recalled thinking, “I might need a little bit of that.”
Dick is well-known for his battle with drug and alcohol addiction. The actor has faced a pattern of legal drama, addiction, treatment and relapses — plenty of which has played out in the public eye and lasted decades.
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