Comedians and actors went on Twitter to beg fellow comic Artie Lange to get help for his alleged drug addiction.
Lange has had a well-documented struggle with drug addiction for decades.
Comedian Richard Lewis urged Lange, 51, to seek treatment.
Maurice LaMarche also wrote: “I’m echoing @TheRichardLewis. Artie, it CAN be done. Richard’s living proof.”
He added: “And now I’m echoing @markschiff. While we’re on the subject, I too stopped trying the desperate experiment of the first drink or drug on 1/20/89. (This is sounding like a show @JerrySeinfeld might create: Comedians In Meetings Getting Sober) C’mon, Artie. Join us. You can do it.”
“Casper” actor Devon Sawa also tweeted: “Sober for 12 years. My life changed. Things just keep getting better and better and better...”
On Jan. 13, Lange tweeted a Variety article about other comics pleading with him to quit drugs. He also retweeted Lewis’ message to him as well as similar messages.
Lange tweeted in November that he was “fighting hard” and was 18 days sober.
Lange appears in the HBO series “Crashing.” Prior to that, he performed on the Fox sketch comedy series “Mad TV” and was a co-host on “The Howard Stern Show.”
He told a judge that he used cocaine 10 days earlier after leaving rehab.
“I wouldn’t be arrogant enough to come in here after using cocaine for two days,” Lange said, according to NJ.com. “It’s in my system and it shouldn’t be.”
“I have work to do,” he tweeted following his court appearance.
“I feel now I can also stop Cocaine. But that’s arrogance and addiction. I’m accepting help. If I fail now I will go to jail. Jail is not for addicts. But I’d be giving them no choice. When I use illegal drugs I have to score them. That’s breaking the law.”