Mob Wives’ Renee Graziano almost died from a fentanyl overdose

Renee Graziano revealed that she suffered an accidental fentanyl overdose last year, which nearly killed her.

‘I’ve debated this. I just lost my entire life,” says the Mob women star, 55, said in a teaser obtained by TMZ for her upcoming performance Bunnie XO‘s “Dumb Blonde” podcast, out Wednesday, March 6. “I couldn’t catch my breath.”

Graziano said that before she suffered from the overdose, she had problems with her family. Her sister Jennifer Graziano didn’t speak to her “for a year and a half”.

“Everything in my life fell apart. My son [AJ Pagan] “I didn’t want to talk to me,” she said. “Nobody wanted to talk to me.”

In addition to not being on good terms with Jennifer, 52, and her son, she also had to deal with the loss of her father. Anthony Grazianowho died in May 2019. When everything started piling up for Renee, she admitted that she “gave up.”

“I just lost my s–t, man,” Renee recalled. “On September 18, someone gave me a bag of fentanyl, while that was actually the intention [an undisclosed drug].”

Bunnie The reality star admitted to overdosing in May 2023 while in Florida. Renee remembers no details about what happened to her before the overdose and reported that “three days were wiped from her mind.”

“I died in a restaurant in Florida. I was dead, intubated for three days,” she said. “No one in my family came to the hospital and I spent nine days there learning to walk again. That was it for me.”

Renee doesn’t blame her family for not coming to visit her while she was in the hospital. She admitted that she “put them through hell” and understands that they thought she “wouldn’t make it.”

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After her recovery, Renee decided to get clean and sought help from Odom Recovery Group in November 2023, per TMZ.

Renee previously went to rehab in 2012. At the time, Renee’s rep said Page six that the TV personality was not seeking treatment “for any current drug or alcohol use of any kind.”

“Her choice to enter rehab was made entirely on her own,” Graziano’s rep said in a statement at the time. “She made this decision to improve the life of her son AJ, as well as to improve her physical, mental and spiritual health.”