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Wild and Crazy Comic Artie Lange Hospitalized in Royal Oak

April 17, 2014, 2:06 AM

Comic Artie Lange, formerly of the "Howard Stern Show,"  was hospitalized in Royal Oak, Fox 2 reports.

Fox 2 reported that Lange posted on his Twitter page this week he's been hospitalized "outside Detroit" after going into diabetic shock. The station reported that several other Twitter posts were removed from his page Wednesday. One of those posts suggested he was being held against his will in the hospital's psychiatric ward.

Lange was scheduled to perform last Saturday at the Royal Oak Music Theatre.

Lange has had his fair share of battling Demons. The Rolling Stone magazine wrote in 2013:

Addicted to heroin and gambling and hookers, Lange hit bottom in 2010 with a truly gruesome suicide attempt. Reaching for his fifth slice of pizza, Lange casually notes it happened in this very room. He chugged from a bottle of bleach, stabbed himself in the stomach nine times and slit his wrists. 

TMZ reported:


Read more:  Fox 2


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