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More details have emerged about the death of Dana Carvey's eldest son Dex.
On Tuesday, Rolling Stone confirmed to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner that Dex Carvey died on November 15 of an accidental overdose due to the toxicity of fentanyl, ketamine and cocaine. He was 32.
Back in November, Dana Carvey and his wife Paula Zwagerman confirmed that their son had died in a “terrible tragedy” after an overdose.
“Dex has packed a lot into these 32 years. He was extremely talented in so many things – music, art, filmmaking, comedy – and pursued them all with passion,” they said. “It is no exaggeration to say that Dex loved life,” the couple wrote in mid-November.
“And when you were with him, you loved life too,” her message continued. “He did everything for fun. But most of all he loved his family, his friends and his girlfriend Kaylee. Dex was a beautiful person. His handmade birthday cards are a treasure. We will miss him forever.”
Carvey later posted a photo of his son on Instagram with the caption: “Screw the tabloids. That's my boy.” He also shared a photo of the couple working together and wrote, “What a joy.”
Before his death, Dex Carvey followed his father into comedy, appearing as the opening act for Dana's 2016 Netflix special Straight White Male. In 2022, Dana and his sons released The Weird Place, a science fiction comedy podcast adventure produced by Conan O'Brien's Team Coco.
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Carvey spoke to David Spade about the loss of his son in a new podcast episode of Fly on the Wall about his “private journey” of healing with his wife and younger son Thomas. “We’re all in this together,” he said. “And we do a lot of fun things. We hike, we go to church. You just want to make sure you keep moving.”
“I’m on the pain train, so to speak, with about millions of other people on this planet. And you don’t know how long you’re going to keep doing it, when it’s going to stop, or when it’s going to get better,” Carvey added. “But in the meantime, all these things [like work] is very healthy.”