Andy Dick says doctors found 'five to seven holes' in his brain after near-fatal overdose

Andy Dick revealed that his near-fatal overdose three months ago led to doctors discovering 'five to seven holes' in his brain.

While being filmed by a couple of friends in Hollywood on December 9, Dick sloped off, met a strange man and started smoking crack cocaine with him.

Astonishing footage surfaced showing the 60-year-old comedian slumped over by the sidewalk as his friends tried to revive him, via TMZ.

His life was ultimately saved with multiple doses of Narcan, an antidote to opioid overdoses, and he then spent six weeks at a Palm Springs rehab. Crack is not an opioid, but fentanyl - which can be covertly mingled with other drugs - is.

Now Dick has said he underwent 'a CAT scan thing' after the incident and learned he had multiple 'holes' on his brain, on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast.

Dick's representative has clarified, however, that the neural lesions did not result from the overdose but from the comic getting punched years ago, via Page Six.

The Daily Mail has contacted Dick's representatives for further comment. 

'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 representative told Page Six.

'We are assured that his brain will heal,' the statement continued, noting that Dick - who has gone to rehab more than 20 times - had been 'battling his addictions for years' but is now 'healthy, sober and doing great.' 

The 2019 assailant told police at the time that he punched Dick because the comic grabbed his genitals and winked at him, a claim both Dick and Paris Dylan denied.

During his new podcast interview with Howie Mandel, Dick confirmed that his heart stopped during his December overdose and that he was 'purple, not breathing.'

He recalls nothing before 'waking up in the ambulance,' he said, and confirmed that his substance abuse has had a lasting impact on his memory.

'And they did a CAT scan thing, or whatever they call it on your brain, and I have all these - there's about five to seven holes or something,' said Dick.

In late January, Dick announced that he had emerged from rehab after a little under 50 days and was staying at a sober living facility close to Beverly Hills, via TMZ. 

The day after the overdose, a slurring Dick gave an interview about the incident, joined by the friends who had helped save his life.

Dick was said to have 'snuck away' and done 'something that messed him up' so that his friends had to conduct a 'group effort' to 'you know, save him.'

The comedian explained that he had come across a man close to his age and 'felt for him,' whereupon the man 'whipped out - sorry, but crack. And I'm like, you know what, I might need a little bit of that. I wanted to see what he was doing and also, I don't mind doing a little crack every now and then,' via TMZ.

In January he told comedian Jamie Kennedy that the first sentence out of his mouth when he regained consciousness after the overdose was: 'Where's the vodka?' on an episode of the podcast Hate to Break It To Ya.

Through his years of rollercoaster addiction, Dick has racked up a string of arrests and faced varying legal problems, some involving accusations of sexual misconduct.

In 2022 he was found guilty of having groped an Uber driver four years earlier, for which he was given a 90-day sentence and made to register as a sex offender.

He was arrested in June 2021 for allegedly using a metal chair to attack a male partner, and that October for allegedly striking his boyfriend's face with a frying pan.

In December 2019 he was convicted of sexual battery for squeezing a woman's behind and was sentenced to two weeks in jail, but as a result of overcrowding he ended up spending only one night behind bars.

In 2018 his estranged second wife Lena Sved obtained a domestic violence restraining order against him that forced him to move out of their home and stay 100 yards from her and their children Lucas, 37, Jacob, 31, and Meg, 27.

Dick was also arrested in 2010 and accused of having taken hold of a man's genitals while he was drunk at a bar in West Virginia.

In 2008 he was arrested for allegedly exposing a 17-year-old girl's breasts by pulling down her top and bra, and was also found to be in possession of various drugs.

He pled guilty to misdemeanor marijuana and battery charges in connection with that incident and received three years' probation.

During a 2007 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, security had to yank him offstage because of his repeated unbidden touching of fellow guest Ivanka Trump.

In 1999 he was charged with cocaine and marijuana possession after he crashed his car into a traffic-signal pole and the police found the substances.