Priming the Pump –
May 19, 2019 – The comedian, who grew up in Union and lives in Hoboken, is currently serving four years of probation for heroin possession. He violated that probation two times in the space of less than two months by testing positive for cocaine and was jailed in January for nearly a week … Lange, who has struggled with drug addiction for decades, moving in an out rehab, spent eight years on “The Howard Stern Show,” from 2001 to 2009, before he was asked to take a break after a drug binge. After a 2010 suicide attempt at this Hoboken home in which he plunged a knife into his stomach multiple times and drank bleach, the show eventually cut ties with him. Lange has said that Stern tried to help him, but they ended up drifting apart. (It was Lange’s second attempt after an incident in 1995.)
