 Other causes for the incident were later suggested . Before committing the act , Brynn was taking the antidepressant drug Zoloft . A wrongful @-@ death lawsuit was filed in 1999 by Brynn 's brother , Gregory Omdahl , against the drug 's manufacturer , Pfizer , and her child 's psychiatrist Arthur <unk> , who provided samples of Zoloft to Brynn . Hartman 's friend and former SNL colleague Jon Lovitz has accused Hartman 's former NewsRadio co @-@ star Andy Dick of re @-@ introducing Brynn to cocaine , causing her to relapse and suffer a nervous breakdown . Dick claims to have known nothing of her condition . In 2006 , Lovitz claimed that Dick had approached him at a restaurant and said , " I put the Phil Hartman hex on you ; you 're the next one to die . " The following year at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Los Angeles , Lovitz and Dick had a further altercation over the issue . Dick asserts that he is not at fault in relation to Hartman 's death . 
