The disturbing day Andrew O'Keefe melted down live on Sunrise - as his bizarre drink and drug-fuelled antics shock the nation
Daily MailEXCLUSIVE Within moments of Andrew O'Keefe sliding onto the presenters' couch for Weekend Sunrise's biggest broadcast of the year, the show's producers knew they had a problem. Within moments of Andrew O'Keefe sliding onto presenters couch alongside 'confused' co-host Angela Cox, the show's producers knew they had a problem The nation's No1 breakfast news program had spent months planning every second of its wall-to-wall coverage as convicted Bali drug smuggler Schapelle Corby returned to Australia The program's hard-working producers and crew had been plotting every moment of the network's wall-to-wall coverage for months. Concerned viewers were worried about O'Keefe's unusual antics during the live broadcast Seven's army of spin doctors maintained O'Keefe was simply overwhelmed by Corby's dramatic homecoming and hosed down suggestions he was 'tired and emotional' on air While the network strived to save face publicly - and to protect O'Keefe from suggestions he was unravelling amid lurid industry-wide gossip about his wild partying - tensions were escalating on set. O'Keefe arrives at Rose Bay police station on Monday where he was charged with drug possession following a shocking heroin overdose at his eastern suburb flat at the weekend Paramedics managed to revive the 52-year-old before rushing him to St Vincent's Hospital in nearby Darlinghurst in the early hours of Saturday morning.