What happened
Comedic actor Andy Dick was arrested early Wednesday morning on drug and battery charges after he allegedly pulled down a 17-year-old girl’s tank top and bra. The incident reportedly took place outside of a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Murrieta, Calif., where Dick appeared to be intoxicated and was found to be in possession of Marijuana and Xanax. (AP)
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Andy Dick “has a reputation for crude behavior,” said the Associated Press. He’s reportedly “exposed himself to audiences at least twice,” and was “forcibly removed from the set of the show Jimmy Kimmel Live last year after he repeatedly touched guest Ivanka Trump without her permission.” And let’s not forget his arrest in 1999 for “possession of cocaine and marijuana after driving his car into a telephone pole.”
Yup, the great “wacktor” has been arrested again, said Perez Hilton, and the police report is hilarious. Not only did Dick allegedly grope a teenager, he also urinated in public and was identified in a curbside lineup. “Is a stint on Celebrity Rehab in his future?” If he’s lucky—he might be going to jail.
There’s really nothing funny about any of this, said Marc Rawden in the blog Cinema Blend. “Snorting coke and grinding up against unwilling kids half your age is creepy and sad.” And it’s hard to watch Dick “fall from loveable, quirky, over-the-top drama queen to haggard, drug-addicted has-been.” We really hope you get your life together, Andy—“we need less of this and more scene-stealing roles.”
