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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor and comedian Andy Dick was found unresponsive from an apparent drug overdose in Hollywood on Tuesday. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50141,50142,4188,2905,50140,6874,50143,418,1743,48,52,51,47,6024,50,49,50144,10132,24552,68,5050],"class_list":["post-90414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-andy-dick","tag-apparent-overdose","tag-building","tag-bystander","tag-dick","tag-drug","tag-felony-sexual-battery","tag-history","tag-hollywood","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-fire-department","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-old-man","tag-suspicion","tag-tmz","tag-tuesday","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}