Artie Lange's suicide attempt happened over the weekend, but the story only leaked to Page Six yesterday. This morning, Lange's friend and employer Howard Stern was forced to comment on a story that he'd known about for days, and that he thought had miraculously bypassed the press. Stern begins the segment uncharacteristically, at a loss for words. It's not often you hear Stern utter the words "I don't know what to say," but he does it over and over again in this morning's broadcast, and expresses anger at the "shithead who maybe got payed ten bucks" to leak the story to Page Six. When he tries reading the news item on air, he can barely get through the second sentence, stopping before the item details the violent way in which Lange tried to take his own life— nine self-inflicted stab wounds. Stern avoids mention the method throughout the twenty-minute broadcast. The last time we've seen Howard Stern this stumped was September 12, 2001. Listen to the broadcast after the jump.

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