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 in September 2023 after consuming an unspecified drug laced with fentanyl.
In a teaser for an upcoming episode of Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast, she explained that after the incident, she said she had to learn how 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 talked about her childhood as the daughter of her late father Anthony Graziano, a former consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, who passed away in 2019.
‘I OD’d,’ she 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 ‘wasn’t talking 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,’ she said. ‘Nobody wanted to talk to me. Everything just started piling up and piling up and piling up and piling up. I gave up.’
‘I just, like, lost my s***, man,’ she admitted. ‘Someone gave me a bag of fentanyl.’
She previously told her manager Chris Giovanni that she suffered a drug overdose in reaction to a ‘bad batch’ she purchased from a drug dealer.
She said that the next thing she knew was that she ‘died in a restaurant in Florida’.
‘I was dead, intubated for three days,’ she continued before adding that she ‘spent nine days there learning how to walk again’.
‘That was it for me,’ she said about what motivated her to go to rehab. ‘They said I wasn’t going to make it.’
During that time, Graziano — who said she does not ‘remember anything as the ‘three days were wiped from my brain’ — said ‘no one in my family came to the hospital’.
The 55-year-old reality TV personality recalled the harrowing incident in September 2023 after consuming an unspecified drug laced with fentanyl; seen in 2017
In a teaser for an upcoming episode of Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast, she explained that after the incident, she said she had to learn how to walk again and ultimately decided to go to rehab
She said that the next thing she knew was that she ‘died in a restaurant in Florida’. ‘I was dead, intubated for three days,’ she continued before adding that she ‘spent nine days there learning how to walk again’; seen in March 2017
During that time, Graziano — who said she does not ‘remember anything as the ‘three days were wiped from my brain’ — said ‘no one in my family came to the hospital’; seen in May 2018
She said they simply ‘didn’t want to’ see her and ‘they just couldn’t do it’.
Despite that, however, she said she understood her loved ones’ reasoning and ‘doesn’t blame them’ as she put her family ‘through hell’ in the time leading up to her near-fatal overdose.
Afterwards, she entered a rehab facility before later transferring 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 that she had entered a facility in Texas and offered his assistance in any way possible amid her recovery.
