"Pawn Stars" star Rick Harrison opened up about processing grief after he lost his son to a drug overdose last year.
“I think about him every day,” Harrison said of his son Adam Harrison on "In Depth with Graham Bensinger" in an interview that was released Wednesday. “In his 20s, he had the drug problems, and I put him in rehab so many times."
"Every time, he’d be doing great, and then it would fall back. You hear the same story from a million people," he told Bensinger. "It got really, really bad, and apparently, it wasn’t heroin. He ended up getting some fentanyl, killed him.”
Adam Harrison died at 39 from a fentanyl overdose in January 2024, leading his father to advocate for stricter enforcement of drug control laws.
“The fentanyl crisis in this country must be taken more seriously,” Harrison, the creator and star of the long-running reality TV hit, told TMZ in a statement last year.
Harrison spoke to Bensinger about second-guessing everything after having lost a child.
“Could I have done something different?” he asked. “I think I did everything right, but you just sit in your head, ‘What if I did this? What if I did this?’ ... You have a hundred things go through your mind. There is nothing worse than losing a kid.”
Even as a parent to a child struggling with drug addiction, he said, he never expected to lose his son.
"You try to give them tough love," he said. "God, you just never see the OD coming. There's no ... instruction book with kids, and they're all different models."
Harrison said he tries to focus on thinking "about the good times" and his other children and grandchildren to "keep on moving on."
"Appreciate what you got, because you're not always going to have it," he told Bensinger.
