Andy Dick has been admitted to rehab.
The 59-year-old actor has agreed to seek help after he was photographed outside a Hollywood building earlier this week following an apparent overdose.
He praised his longtime girlfriend Jennifer Ginenez, who he appeared on Celebrity rehabilitation with – and her husband for their help and support.
He told it TMZ: “Jenny Gimenez is my sister who saved me with Tim.”
Andy will reportedly enter a treatment facility in Palm Springs, California, but just days ago he insisted he had no plans to do anything like that.
When asked if he would seek “professional help,” he insisted, “I’m not going to rehab.”
And if he was in a “good place” at the time, he added: “I love it, I’m surrounded by my two friends… it will be hard for me to escape them, but I will escape.”
Eyewitness Shawn Harrell told the story PEOPLE magazine: “His body was limp. It looked like a dead weight. It was blue. I thought he had died.”
Shawn had thought the scene was “more than likely part of a movie,” after seeing a “group of guys” in the area with “video cameras everywhere.”
He said, “That particular day I was walking. I got there. There was a group of guys there and they had video cameras everywhere. So it looked like they were filming a movie or something…”
“I heard things like, ‘Wake him up! Man, wake him up!’ And people [were] I’m running around, and I’m thinking, ‘What’s going on there?’” Shawn added
But when he heard the screams again, Shawn realized something was wrong and tried to call for help, but he got no answer.
He said:[Andy] fell at first. And when they finally started shaking him and doing all these things, he came [to],”
But he then saw Andy Dick “slump over” and soon after, paramedics arrived, and “put that Narcan stuff in him.”
