Mike Sorrentino and wife Lauren with new baby (Image: Instagram)
Jersey Shore star Mike Sorrentino opened up about his struggles with addiction.
Sorrentino sat for an interview with Entertainment Tonight ahead of his upcoming memoir, Reality Check: Making the Best of the Situation — How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison.
“I was a young and wild, careless kid, and once you gave kids millions of dollars and Ferraris and Lambos and girls screaming my name and yes-men everywhere, and it was hard to turn that off,” he recalled. “That was my problem for many years — how do you turn off the excess?”
“And I think it wasn’t just my problem,” he continued. “Most people in our world or the celebrity world or in the entertainment world have a problem turning off the excess button.”
Sorrentino said that the financial success of Jersey Shore was “like gasoline on fire” for his addiction problem and reflected on the amount of money he made from reality television.
“When you think of that number, when you hear that number, that’s a good college fund right there,” he said. “I gotta just be accountable and say, ‘Yeah, that happened.’ I was wild. I was careless. I was reckless, and I fell prey to drug addiction, and in the book, I describe that I did spend about half a million dollars on cocaine and oxycodone.”
Sorrentino noted that he would carry pills in his Louis Vuitton bag “at all times.” He said that his stash included a couple hundred Roxicet, 150 Percocets, 100 Xanax and 100 Valium, along with marijuana and cocaine.
He entered rehab for 60 days in 2012 and was sober for almost a year before relapsing.
“I didn’t get a sponsor. I didn’t have a recovery network. I didn’t go to meetings. I didn’t take the suggestions,” he told Asbury Park Press in 2018. “I was going to try to do it my way. And obviously, I was wrong.”
Sorrentino went back into rehab in 2015. He will be eight years sober this December.
“I’m happy to make it this far,” he told People. “I was so wild in my twenties and thirties that being the family man I am today — being eight years sober in December, a dad of two, married five years in a happy, healthy marriage — I’m killing the game.”
In 2019, Sorrentino went to prison for tax evasion for failing to pay taxes on $9 million of income.
Sorrentino’s memoir will be released on December 19.
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