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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 , 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.
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The Daily Mail has contacted Dick's representatives for further comment.
Andy Dick revealed that his near-fatal overdose three months ago led to doctors discovering 'five to seven holes' in his brain, on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast
Astonishing footage surfaced showing the 60-year-old comedian slumped over by the sidewalk as his friends tried to revive him, via TMZ
'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.'
Dick's representative has clarified, however, that the neural lesions did not result from the overdose but from the comic getting punched in 2019, via Page Six; pictured 2019
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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.'
