(MTV)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSpeaking to Entertainment Tonight, the long-time reality star opened up about his struggles ahead of the release of his memoir Reality Check: Making the Best of the Situation \u2014 How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison, which will hit shelves on December 19.<\/p>\n
At one point, Sorrentino now says, his lawyers told him he had spent around $500,000 on cocaine and oxycodone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a good college fund right there. I just gotta be accountable and be like, \u2018Yeah, that happened,\u201d The Situation told ET. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was wild. I was careless. I was reckless, and I fell prey to drug addiction.\u201d<\/p>\nMike Sorrentino is upset about something here on Jersey Shore. (MTV)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHow hooked on these drugs was Sorrentino?<\/p>\n
The addiction to painkillers was so severe that he would smuggle them along with him for all of his television appearances, including the entire time he competed on Dancing with the Stars in 2010.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was into everything. I had everything on me at all times in my Louis Vuitton bag,\u201d Sorrentino said. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverything \u2014 from a couple hundred Roxicet, which are 30 milligram oxycodone, then I\u2019d have probably 150 Percocets on me, which are 10 milligram oxycodone.\u201d<\/p>\nMichael \u201cThe Situation\u201d Sorrentino and Lauren Sorrentino attend MTV\u2019s Jersey Shore Family Vacation NYC Premiere Party at Hard Rock Hotel New York on August 2, 2023. (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Situation managed to hide almost all of this from those around him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was extremely hard. It consumed all my time, to try to get by MTV and production on how I was going to smuggle in drugs on a season,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Mile explained that he \u201cmisjudged\u201d his \u201cappetite\u201d and \u201cdependency\u201d on the drugs, referring to it as \u201cinsanity\u201d the lengths he went to keep up with his habit while working.<\/p>\n
As you might expect, this habit caused extreme financial stress for the star.<\/p>\nMike Sorrentino might be in trouble with the law again. The Shore star has reportedly fallen far behind on his court-ordered community service. (MTV)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSorrentino\u2019s self-described \u201cinsurance policy?\u201d<\/p>\n
He and his wife would make a sex tape.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went down that journey of selling it and we decided not to,\u201d Mike now admits, adding that there were<\/em> offers, but:<\/p>\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t as big of an upfront payment as I wanted. It wasn\u2019t Jersey Shore money, so I wasn\u2019t going to put myself out there like that.\u201d<\/p>\nMike poses with his wife and son. So cute! (Instagram)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSorrentino also delved into his \u201clowest point,\u201d which took place in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike a day or so before [entering rehab], I did something I never thought I was gonna do,\u201d he told ET. <\/p>\n
\u201cI ended up trying a drug that I never thought I would try. A drug that kills most people. A drug that most people don\u2019t come back from. A drug that I told myself that I would never do, that I thought was dirty. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was heroin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wow, huh?<\/p>\n
We should all be happy Mike Sorrentino is still with us after that.<\/p>\n
No one more so, of course, than his wife, two kids and the baby on the way.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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