Former ‘Munsters’ Actor Nearly Overdoses
Butch Patrick, who portrayed Eddie on ‘The Munsters,’ checked into a New Jersey rehab facility two weeks ago. Though Patrick, 57, was seeking help with a 40-year addiction to alcohol, cocaine and marijuana, he left rehab shortly after and nearly overdosed last week.
“He not only continued with drugs and alcohol after checking himself out of rehab,” Butch’s agent Jodi Ritzen told RadarOnline.com, “but started to black out and make rash decisions while under the influence causing him to nearly overdose last Thursday evening.”
Patrick has been filming an A&E series, ‘Life’s a Butch,’ and his producer, John Rose, made arrangements for the actor to get to Los Angeles for help.
Ritzen told Radar that Patrick’s family met him at the airport in LA Friday, staging an intervention.
“Butch is uninsured, but they were able to check him into an Orange County facility after they offered him free treatment,” Ritzen said. “His situation is so dire that he was given a scholarship estimated to be worth $25,000 per week for his treatment.”
A “shaken and emotional” Patrick will remain in treatment for a minimum of 30 days, with seven days spent in detox.
“I can only hope that fans understand the severity of Butch’s problem and will continue to show their support for him through all of this,” Ritzen said. “I would rather have Butch meet with fans clean and sober then take the chance of him winding up dead.”
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