Yesterday in an interview on Entertainment Tonight, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino confessed to spending at least $500,000 on his “reckless” drug addiction.
The “Jersey Shore” star opened up about the one of the lowest points of his life, explaining how starring in the hit MTV reality show from 2009 to 2012 helped fuel his drug dependency.
He told Entertainment Tonight, “I did spend about half a million dollars on cocaine and oxycodone,” “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,” I would carry Xanax and Valium when traveling on airplanes and weed and cocaine when he wasn’t. “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.
Mike admitted he was already addicted to drugs before filming “Jersey Shore,” but his addiction escalated once he started making excessive cash.
He looks back on the time he was really struggling to hide his habit from the MTV production crew, explaining that figuring out how to “smuggle” drugs “consumed all his time. Sorrentino hid drugs in actually in a shoe, which he “disguised” in a suitcase with about 20 other pairs, so that he could have his fix while filming in Italy.
