Andy Dick opts for rehabilitation

Andy Dick has checked into rehab.

The 59-year-old actor has agreed to seek help after he was photographed outside a building in Hollywood following an apparent overdose earlier this week.

He praised his old friend Jennifer Ginenez - who he appeared on Celebrity Rehab with - and her husband for their help and support.

He told TMZ: "Jenny Gimenez is my sister who saved me with Tim."

Andy will reportedly be entering a treatment facility in Palm Springs, California, but just a few days ago he insisted he had no plans to do such a thing.

When asked if he would seek "professional help," he insisted: "I'm not going to be in rehab."

And pressed on if he was in a "good place" at the moment, he added: "Love it, I'm surrounded by my two friends... it'll be hard for me to escape from them, but I will escape."

Eyewitness Shawn Harrell, told PEOPLE magazine: “His body was limp. It was like deadweight. It was blue. I thought he passed away.”

Shawn had thought the scene was "more than likely part of a movie" having seen a "group of guys" in the area with "video cameras everywhere."

He said: "That particular day, I was walking. I got down there. There was a group of guys down there and they had video cameras everywhere. So seemed like they were filming a film or something...”

“I heard some stuff like, ‘Wake him up! Man, wake him up!’ And people [were] running around, and I’m like, ‘What’s going on down there?’” Shawn added

But when he heard the shouting again, Shawn realised something was wrong and tried calling for help but had problems getting a response.

He said: “[Andy] was slumped over at first. And then when they finally started shaking him and doing all this stuff, he came [to],"

But he then saw Andy Dick "slumped over" and paramedics arrived shortly afterwards, who "put that Narcan stuff in him."