Carton in ‘hell’ since arrest

Two minutes of silence used to be unheard of from Craig Carton. Now, his two months of silence are over.

The former shock jock and half of the “Boomer & Carton” radio show made his first public comments since his Sept. 6 arrest, revealing the toll his alleged role in a $4.6 million ticket-reselling scam has taken on both him and his family.

The former WFAN loudmouth, who faces up to 45 years if convicted on charges of conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud, did not lay out his defense plan, but did tell USA Today his world has come crumbling down.

“It is devastating,” Carton told the newspaper Monday. “There is no other word for it. It has thrown my entire life upside down — I have to talk to my kids about things that they might not understand but that I know they are reading … adult things that no kid should ever have to read about, especially when you are talking about their father.

“As far as the personal toll,” he added, “I was employed for 10 years at my dream job. I have no income now. My life unfortunately is kind of on hold. The last two months have been hell.”

His hell has been silence. Carton is struggling to come to terms with a life without sports-talk radio, without spouting his unfiltered takes on everything he sees. He said he still watches sports, if less attentively than before.

“It is killing me,” Carton said. “I made my living speaking and being opinionated on whatever it was I was speaking about. Now I am the focus of that. I am the subject that people are talking about. It is extraordinarily frustrating. It is maddening. It was beyond difficult to keep my lips tight for the last two months.”

Carton vows he’ll be back on the air.

“I think about [being on sports radio] every minute of every day,” Carton said. “You can bet your [butt] that I will do it again at some point.”