Mob Wives star Renee Graziano opened up about her near-fatal fentanyl overdose last year and her recovery journey.
The 55-year-old reality TV personality recalled the harrowing incident that occurred in September 2023 after consuming an unspecified drug laced with fentanyl.
In a preview of an upcoming episode of Bunnie Xo Dumb blonde In the podcast, he explained that after the incident, he said he had to learn to walk again and ultimately decided to go to rehab.
The Celebrity Big Brother alum, who shared a meaningful post celebrating 40 days of sobriety just weeks earlier, also opened up about her childhood as the daughter of her late father Anthony Graziano, former consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, who passed away in 2019.
“I overdosed,” he recalled. ‘I just lost my whole life. I couldn’t come up for air.
Mob Wives star Renee Graziano opened up about her near-fatal fentanyl overdose last year and her recovery journey; seen in January 2022
She noted that at the time her sister Jennifer Graziano ‘didn’t talk to me for a year and a half’ and her son AJ Pagan, 29, ‘didn’t want to talk’ to her either.
“Everything in my life was falling apart,” he said. ‘No one wanted to talk to me. Everything started to accumulate and accumulate and accumulate and accumulate. I gave up.’
“I just lost my mind, man,” he admitted. “Someone gave me a bag of fentanyl.”
He previously told his manager Chris Giovanni that he suffered a drug overdose in reaction to a “bad batch” he bought from a drug dealer.
He said the next thing he knew he “died in a restaurant in Florida.”
“I was dead, intubated for three days,” she continued before adding that “she spent nine days there learning to walk again.”
“That was it for me,” she said of what motivated her to go to rehab. “They said I wasn’t going to make it.”
During that time, Graziano, who said he “doesn’t remember anything because the three days were erased from my brain,” said “no one in my family came to the hospital.”
The 55-year-old reality TV personality recalled the harrowing incident that occurred in September 2023 after consuming an unspecified drug laced with fentanyl; seen in 2017
In a preview of an upcoming episode of Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast, she explained that after the incident, she said she had to learn to walk again and ultimately decided to go to rehab.
He said the next thing he knew he “died in a restaurant in Florida.” “I was dead, intubated for three days,” she continued before adding that she “spent there nine days learning to walk again”; seen March 2017
During that time, Graziano, who said he “doesn’t remember anything because the three days were erased from my brain,” said that “no one from my family came to the hospital”; seen in May 2018
She said they just “didn’t want” to see her and “just couldn’t do it.”
Despite that, however, he said he understood his loved ones’ reasoning and “doesn’t blame them” for putting his family “through hell” in the time before his near-fatal overdose.
He subsequently entered a rehabilitation facility before moving to Lamar Odom’s Southern California Wellness Center for trauma therapy.
Her publicist told TMZ in December that Odom had reached out to Graziano on Instagram when he learned she had checked into a facility in Texas and offered to help her in any way possible during her recovery.
