Artie Lange is reading Howard Stern’s latest book “Howard Stern Comes Again." And while there are not many mentions of Lange in there, the New Jersey comedian has located at least one.

It’s an interview from “The Howard Stern Show” in 2004, when Lange was still working as an on-air personality alongside Stern. They were interviewing none other than Donald Trump, the future president. Before he was making appearances on tarmacs and speaking to reporters in the Rose Garden, Trump had been a regular guest of Stern, making about two dozen appearances on the show.

Lange, 51, was reading the book during his shift at a gas station where he is working as part of a rehab program. (In April, he worked a garbage truck route.)

Artie reached out and asked us to post this for him: Pumping gas and reading Howard Sterns new book, which is great by the way. I read in 2004 Trump interview with me there. I’m reading about the POTUS when a guy yells at me “ yo fill it with regular” lol, my crazy life! pic.twitter.com/X5uMG74ONs — Artie Lange (@artiequitter) 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.)

“Pumping gas and reading Howard Sterns new book, which is great by the way,” read a message from Lange tweeted Sunday by his representatives alongside a photo at the gas station. “I read in 2004 Trump interview with me there. I’m reading about the POTUS when a guy yells at me ‘yo fill it with regular’ lol, my crazy life!”

In a video his account retweeted last week, Lange sent love to Stern and promised he would be back onstage soon.

Lange, who recently finished a run as a recurring character on the HBO show “Crashing,” which was canceled after three seasons, appears twice in Stern’s new book.

One mention arrives during the Trump interview in 2004, during which Lange asked “The Donald” if he had ever smoked marijuana or done drugs (“dope”) “or anything like that” (“I never had any of that,” Trump replied. “It was always women, Howard.” He then went on to insist he was faithful to Melania, who he would go on to marry in 2005.). Another mention is for a Vincent Gallo interview the same year, where he is identified as a “former Stern Show staff member.”

Caution: video contains profanity.

A fan recently visited Lange at the gas station on Route 31 in Lebanon, and gave him a $20 bill as a tip, marked with a message: “NOT VALID FOR DRUGS.”

Lange said he was living at a halfway house in Glen Gardner (Hunterdon County) and talked further about the ways Stern tried to help him.

“There’s a million times Howard said to me, ‘Go to rehab, take as long as you want, and when you come back, you got a job.’ What else can you expect, and I sh-t all over that because I was a drug addict. Howard did me right. I love him."

“I got 111 days clean and sober,” Lange said, adding that he had lost weight “without cocaine.”

Lange explained the gas station gig by saying that part of his rehab program entails getting “a local job.”

“It’s to try to give you structure,” Lange said. “I need that more than anything.” When he was sentenced to probation in June of 2018, Lange asked the judge to let him continue working, since he had been to inpatient rehab programs before and he much prefers being able to work. He said he expects to be onstage in a few weeks.

Stern, while promoting "Howard Stern Comes Again,” spoke about Lange in an interview with the New York Times Magazine.

“What’s happening with Artie makes me very sad," Stern, 65, told the magazine. “We’ve lost touch, and that’s my doing. I got my fingers crossed for the guy. And it wasn’t a clean break. It was many years of wanting Artie to get help.”

“I know that a lot of fans want me to talk about Artie and feel it’s a cop-out for me not to," Stern continued. “I’ll take that. I don’t want to do anything that would rock his boat. I get sad talking about Artie. He was a tremendous contributor. But we had to move on.”

Have a tip? Amy Kuperinsky may be reached at akuperinsky@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @AmyKup or on Facebook.

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