‘Howard Stern Show’ Alum Artie Lange Appears to Have Had His Nose Reconstructed After Damaging Drug Use

Comedian Artie Lange, best known for Mad TV and The Howard Stern Show, seems to be in good spirits.

The 58-year-old — who has been open about his struggles with alcohol, cocaine and other substances — appeared to step out with what looks like a reconstructed nose, according to a recent photo shared on X (formerly Twitter).

According to social media sleuths, Lange was seen out and about with a group of people, including a slew of fellow comedians and his sister, Stacey Lange.

One media personality claimed he was told Lange was as “sharp as ever” during the outing, which allegedly took place in New York City.

In a video shared in September to the Legion of Skanks Podcast YouTube channel, Lange said that he planned to “get the nose fixed eventually,” adding that he would need a rhinoplasty.

He opened the podcast by declaring that he was “eight months clean and sober” at the time.

“People ask me stupid questions like, ‘What happened to your nose?’ I’m like, ‘Too much yoga. I stopped to smell the roses in life, and they had cocaine on them,’” Lange joked.

He then revealed that he once accidentally snorted glass.

“I was with this broad in St. Louis at this nice hotel, and we were snorting OxyContin, and you got to crack the OxyContin up and make it into fine powder to snort it,” he began.

Lange explained that the woman he was with used a glass salt shaker to break up the OxyContin, a strong opioid used to manage severe pain. The drug must be prescribed, and it usually comes in tablet form.

As the woman was grinding the Oxy down to a powder, “The glass breaks,” Lange said. “She makes it real, real fine. She gets called to the front desk, and I come out. I see the lines, and I snorted them, and it was like a zipper… It went right up my nose, and it started to bleed.”

“So, you know, if kids are listening,” he added, “don’t do that.”

Throughout the years, Lange has encountered legal trouble and been in and out of rehab due to his substance abuse issues.