3. Artie Lange
Artie Lange is best known as Howard Stern’s sidekick on The Howard Stern Show. The comedian, who had a number one bestseller with his book Too Fat To Fish, hit rock bottom in 2010 after becoming addicted to prostitutes, heroin and gambling. He then decided to take his own life in a very gruesome way.
At his Hoboken, New Jersey apartment, Lange downed a bottle of bleach, stabbed himself in the stomach nine times and then slit his own wrists. He recalls the night and how his family saved him in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine: “I had the knife and made it to the bedroom with a trail of blood behind me. I had lost enough blood where I finally did pass out. My mom, my sister, Colin Quinn and a bunch of people were coming over for an intervention-type thing. Thank God I got found by them. They saved my life”.
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