What can he say other than he likes to go hard when it comes to partying.
Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino from MTV’s famous show “Jersey Shore” confessed to spending at least $500k on his drug addiction.
Mike opened up about one of his lowest points in life and explained in detail how starring in the hit show “Jersey Shore” from 2009 to 2012 helped rocket his drug dependency.
“I did spend about half a million dollars on cocaine and oxycodone,” he said during an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I was wild. I was careless. I was reckless, and I fell prey to drug addiction.”
“I was into everything. I had everything on me at all times in my Louis Vuitton bag. Everything,” he added.
Mike claims he would carry Xanax and Valium when traveling on airplanes and when he wasn’t his choices were weed and cocaine.
“My life was going by so quickly that, at the time, I made a mistake and I thought it was going to help my performance or my stamina, and for a little bit, I have to say, that it did,” he continued. “But eventually I became dependent and I became addicted on these substances.”
Mike, 41, confessed he had already had a drug addiction problem before he started filming the MTV show, but the addiction spiraled out of control once he started making more cash.
Mike recalls trying to hide his drug habits from the production crew and how it took all of his time just to figure out how to smuggle his drugs during filming.
“At one point I even hid drugs in my shoe after I disguised it in my suitcase with about 20 other pairs of shoes. It mattered to me at the time to have my fix while filming in Italy,” Mike said.
Reflecting back to the Season 4 episode when he slammed his head into a wall while fighting with castmate Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, he said, “I was going through withdrawals at the time ’cause I had ran out of pills.”
Three years after the show ended, Mike hit his lowest point when he tried heroin. Mike claims it was a last ditch effort to escape his depression, anxiety, and self-doubt he constantly faced.
“I ended up trying a drug that I never thought I would try. A drug that kills most people. A drug that most people don’t come back from. A drug that I told myself that I would never do, that I thought was dirty. It was heroin,” he said.
He eventually checked into rehab in 2015 and has been sober ever since.
Sorrentino opens up about the ins and outs of his addiction in his new memoir, “Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation – How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison,” which will be released on Dec. 19.
He credits his wife, Lauren, for helping him stay clean.
The couple, who wed in November 2018, are expecting their third child together.
