{"id":44605,"date":"2019-02-27T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/after-a-traumatic-accident-this-comedian-is-recovering-through-herb-and-humor\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:12:08","slug":"after-a-traumatic-accident-this-comedian-is-recovering-through-herb-and-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/after-a-traumatic-accident-this-comedian-is-recovering-through-herb-and-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"After a Traumatic Accident, This Comedian Is Recovering Through Herb and Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>All photos by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/emily_berkey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Emily Berkey<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In February of 2014, Liza Dye left her friend\u2019s apartment in New York City and headed to the subway. As she was waiting for the train, she began to feel faint and searched for a place to sit, but ended up passing out and falling onto the subway tracks. Once she came to, Liza realized she was stuck beneath the subway car \u2014 her leg had been run over and she was pinned down \u2014 and firefighters had to cut the mental entangling her in order to free her leg. After countless hours in the hospital, extensive surgeries, skin grafts, and intense physical therapy to help her regain her ability to walk, Liza is now thriving in her fifth year of recovery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/07\/arts\/subway-accident-is-fodder-for-liza-dyes-comedy-routine.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Liza\u2019s accident<\/u><\/a>, she was like many other twenty-somethings living in New York City \u2014 juggling fashion industry gigs and crashing on friends\u2019 couches, hustling with such vigor that on that fateful day she fainted from exhaustion. Though she once thought a career in fashion was her destiny \u2014 and being funny was just a part of her personality that the internet seemed to like \u2014 months before her fall Liza discovered stand-up and began regularly performing at Upright Citizens Brigade. She even landed a coveted group audition for <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>. Her deadpan, unbothered, and somewhat apathetic delivery, witty commentary on pop culture, and ability to impersonate celebrities like Beyonc\u00e9 led to fans and attention from the start.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQRrNLWCkrs\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fact that she was a stand-up newcomer didn\u2019t matter when it came time for the comedy community to rally around Liza after her accident. Noteworthy comedians like Zach Braff and Aziz Ansari donated sizable sums to her recovery fund, and comedy benefit shows were held in her honor. Phoebe Robinson, of <em>2 Dope Queens <\/em>fame, threw a benefit for Liza in New York that featured Ali Wong, Michelle Wolf, and Aparna Nancherla. Chelsea Peretti and Aziz Ansari also held a benefit show for Liza in Los Angeles weeks after the incident, and Amanda Seales, Janeane Garofalo, and Hannibal Buress performed at another benefit show for Liza at The Stand in New York, too. Others rallied behind Liza and donated more than $55,000 to help with her medical expenses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though she used cannabis recreationally before the accident, Liza has found that it helps to relieve some of her physical pain and allows her live in the moment, quelling anxiety and other PTSD symptoms. MERRY JANE met with the comedian and her support dogs in LA, where Liza now lives, to talk about her recovery journey, how cannabis interacts with her comedy career, and the complications of using opioids to treat chronic pain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1551313025372_Copyof57460004.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/files.merryjane.com\/uploads\/generic\/1551313025372_Copyof57460004.jpg\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 301px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>MERRY JANE: What role has cannabis played in your life as someone who is in recovery both mentally and physically from a traumatic event?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liza Dye: <\/strong>Oh wow, the role that it\u2019s played is probably like 75 percent because I mean, there\u2019s just so much to talk about. There\u2019s so many ways that cannabis helps me. From having post-traumatic stress disorder, to nightmares about the accident, to just memories from being in the hospital. There\u2019s so many things that you don\u2019t think about until something happens to you like being in a trauma unit, hearing other people scream. There was a girl across the hall from me who tried to commit suicide. She jumped seven stories from a building, and she survived but she apparently crushed every bone in her body\u2026 I still hear her screams all day.<\/p>\n<p>Cannabis helps so many different aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder. There was a point during my recovery where I had to learn to take everything day by day. You just have to take it as it comes, and cannabis helps in the way that it sort of slows things down and it kind of keeps you in the moment, which I think is important. I started to get into Buddhism and transcendental meditation and all these things to help, too. So cannabis was a really foundational element of all of those things that really helped me to mentally recover and obviously physically, as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What role does cannabis play in your comedy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know, I\u2019ve never been a <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/cannabis-and-comedy-stand-ups-weigh-in-on-how-weed-influences-their-careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>comedian that likes to get high before a show<\/u><\/a>. A lot of comedians drink and a lot of comedians like to smoke. I think <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/health\/pete-davidson-quit-the-herb-but-sparked-up-again-for-his-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Pete Davidson used to speak out<\/u><\/a> before he was super famous about smoking before shows and stuff. We had done a few shows at UCB Chelsea together. I remember him openly talking about how marijuana helps him because his dad died on September 11th, and he\u2019s got PTSD from that. But I never was a comedian who would use cannabis for shows cause I was just kind of scared that it would make me forget my material. Cause once again, I hadn\u2019t been doing standup long [when I had my accident]. I\u2019m not a Sasheer Zamata out here. I haven\u2019t been out here for like ten years in the game. I really was just getting started in New York.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/comedians-share-the-best-jokes-theyve-written-while-stoned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Now for writing, sure<\/u><\/a>. Cannabis allows your brain to tap into that creative side where you can just be silly and really come up with good bits and just think about observational things that\u2019ll make people laugh. So it does help in the production aspect and the writing aspect and the preparation. But a lot of comedians do say that it helps them loosen up on stage and stuff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1551312805743_Copyof57460018.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/files.merryjane.com\/uploads\/generic\/1551312805743_Copyof57460018.jpg\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 301px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You have emotional support dogs that kind of need emotional support, as well. You give them CBD. In what ways have you seen that help them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The chihuahua, he\u2019s the emotional support. And then Noah, the poodle, he\u2019s kind of like a service animal. He\u2019s being trained now to help. I have a lot of nerve damage in my leg, so he walks in front of me and helps to clear a path for me to make sure I don\u2019t trip up over anything or knock my leg on anything. He\u2019s really good for that, but he came from sort of an abusive environment, so he has really bad anxiety, really really bad. <\/p>\n<p>So apparently when my accident happened, these two dogs almost died. They just sensed something terrible was wrong. My friends who were taking care of them were like, \u201cWe don\u2019t know what\u2019s wrong with them, they\u2019re vomiting, they\u2019re shaking, we\u2019re freaked out.\u201d They took them to the vet. To this day, we don\u2019t know what happened to them, but they somehow knew something had happened to me and they just totally broke down and got really really sick. We\u2019re very synced. We\u2019re very spiritually connected. They have helped me so much.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The chihuahua\u2019s a senior dog so he has really bad arthritis. He used to be in a lot of pain before I brought him to LA. I gave him CBD when we got out here and it wasn\u2019t even a month before he was skipping, and one night he shot up the stairs at my apartment. Something he couldn\u2019t do before. I was shook. I was shook, Emily. It freaked me out. I give them CBD if I feel like they\u2019re in pain. But now I\u2019ve started to give them hemp oil daily.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1551313197232_Copyof57460005.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/files.merryjane.com\/uploads\/generic\/1551313197232_Copyof57460005.jpg\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 301px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>When your accident happened, were you given prescription pain pills?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I\u2019m prescribed super strong opioids. I\u2019m supposed to take it three times a day and it\u2019s pretty scary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you ever use THC or CBD instead of the opioids?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. At the end of last year, I started the search for the strongest CBD product that I could find so I could do away with opioids. Cause the thing is, you know, we are literally in the midst of this opioid epidemic, right? I don\u2019t wanna have to take these for the rest of my life because I\u2019m gonna be in pain for the rest of my life. That\u2019s one of the reasons I wanted to move to California and not stay in New York. I knew that there were more holistic natural options in California for people who have chronic long-term pain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the thing is that opioids do help me. I feel like I\u2019m in between a rock and a hard place because you know, they\u2019re abused by so many people but then there are people like me who do benefit from them. They help my mood. When I\u2019m in pain, I\u2019m just in a bad mood and I don\u2019t wanna get out of bed. I don\u2019t wanna do anything. [The prescription pills] change my mood. I can get things done. I can clean. I can go grocery shopping. I can do my laundry. It\u2019s amazing. But I do recognize the dangers of [opioids].<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I\u2019m supposed to take [the prescription pills] three times a day. If I don\u2019t take it, I get a terrible migraine. I Googled it; that\u2019s a sign of withdrawal. You know what I mean? I\u2019ve been on this [medication] less than a year. So I already see the signs of the things that I don\u2019t want to happen. So I\u2019m searching for the strongest CBD. What I did not know was that unfortunately the price points were so high for good CBD products \u2014 like $160 and up!<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s interesting that you\u2019re trying to go the natural route, but it\u2019s so expensive. Seems like it\u2019s almost forcing you to stay on the opiods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I\u2019m on disability. That\u2019s how I pay my rent. It\u2019s not a lot. They give you just enough to survive. So I definitely couldn\u2019t afford those products. Now my plan is to just do some research and see if there\u2019s any programs that help disabled people get natural pain medicines. That\u2019s kind of what I\u2019m trying to do now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v31voT7d_UY\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s talk about you moving forward. Is comedy still the main thing that you are doing? How is recovery going for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recovery\u2019s hell. <\/p>\n<p><strong>This month is the five-year anniversary of the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is. The accident happened February 13th, 2014. So on the 14th it\u2019s gonna be five years which is crazy. I moved to LA three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you been able to focus on comedy at all? Or are you mainly focused on recovering?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very hard to figure out. As cheesy as it sounds, surviving a near-death experience changes everything. You\u2019re not the same person. I\u2019m not living in the same city. I\u2019m not in my 20s. I just turned 30. This happened when I had just turned 25. Everything is totally different now. So comedy \u2014 I\u2019m trying to kind of continue on the path that I was on, but I\u2019ve really found music to be therapeutic these last five years of just dealing with this new life and learning how to navigate this disability&#8230;.lately I find myself doing music more than comedy. [Liza also often DJs comedy shows when she\u2019s not performing]. It\u2019s the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning; I put some music on. I\u2019m just trying to figure it all out. Honestly, I think I\u2019m gonna end up in a tipi somewhere in Eagle Rock giving spiritual readings. I think the subway accident gave me superpowers, like psychic powers. I don\u2019t know how it\u2019s gonna end up, but it\u2019s gonna end up with me in some type of shaman-like position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you feel like you\u2019ve walked into your own power?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just feel very spiritual now. I feel like&#8230; not an X-Men but a store-brand X-Men. I read that sometimes people have things that are dormant within themselves, and when you go through a near-death experience it can activate them. I also had this steak of gray hair that just appeared overnight when I was in the hospital. It just came out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wisdom came to you overnight.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1551312968778_Copyof57460015.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/files.merryjane.com\/uploads\/generic\/1551312968778_Copyof57460015.jpg\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 301px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Liza Dye\u2019s hilarity in real-time on her <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lizadye\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Instagram<\/em><\/u><\/a><em> or <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizadye?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Twitter<\/em><\/u><\/a><em> feeds, and catch her next performance at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevirgil.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>The Virgil in Los Angeles<\/em><\/u><\/a><em> on April 5th<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Emily Berkey on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/emily_berkey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Instagram<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as Liza Dye was carving her path in the stand-up scene, tragedy struck and she was run over by a train. 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