Michael Chernow

I was sitting on the edge of the bed.

I was naked.

I looked, there was a mirror at the head of the bed and I was sitting on the edge of the bed and I remember like it was yesterday and I looked to my right and I saw my reflection in the mirror and from my forehead to my toes, I was white like this, kind of like this.

Like I had been pale and looked gray and green, you know, in my face, my hands.

I've seen my hand, like I remember my hands would get super pale.

I had never seen my chest, my stomach, my legs, everything just white like a ghost.

And it scared the daylights out of me.

And so I jumped up, blacked out, face plant, dead.

I OD'd.

And I remember her shaking me, you know, grabbing me.

And I kind of remember coming to call the ambulance.

She was terrified, didn't want to call the ambulance.

She somehow got me into the bathtub.

She like dragged me into the bathtub and threw me on my back in the bathtub and then just turned the cold water on.

She was terrified.

to call the ambulance.

She didn't call the ambulance.

I could have very well just died in that apartment, but the cold water was on my chest.

And I remember like sort of coming in and out of consciousness.

And then finally I came out and, um,