‘Pawn Stars’ Creator Rick Harrison Opens Up On Tragic Loss

Rick Harrison, the longtime host of popular auctioneering show “Pawn Stars,” has gone public about a tragic loss within his family in an attempt to save others from suffering the same fate.

Harrison, 59, spent time recently reflecting on the loss of his adult son to a drug overdose one year ago. In an interview with Graham Bensinger, the American businessman spoke about how his son Adam, 39, had his whole life ahead of him before he fell victim to an opioid addiction.

“I think about him every day,” Harrison shared. “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. It got really, really bad, and apparently, it wasn’t heroin. He ended up getting some fentanyl that killed him.”

He admitted, “When you lose a kid, you second-guess everything” as a parent.

“Could I have done something different?” he asked. “I think I did everything right, but you just sit in your head (thinking), ‘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.”

Harrison was found dead in January of 2024 while staying at a guest house in Las Vegas, according to USA Today. Reports from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and coroner determined he died of a fentanyl overdose, according to a representative for the family.

“The fentanyl crisis in this country must be taken more seriously,” Rick Harrison told TMZ last year…