Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was once “really high” all over one of the crucial greatest moments of his occupation, together with his short-lived stint on Dancing With the Stars in 2010.
When competing at the display, Sorrentino, 41, discovered a drug broker from his local New Jersey who would ship FedEx applications of tablets hidden in pens to Sorrentino in Los Angeles.
“I needed those pills for DWTS,” Sorrentino wrote in his memoir, Truth Take a look at: Making the Best possible of The State of affairs — How I Overcame Habit, Loss, and Prison, which was once launched on Tuesday, December 19. “That was one of the hardest shows I’ve ever done. I practiced eight hours a day, popping six Perc [30-milligram pills] every few hours.”
All over an unique interview with Us Weekly final month, Sorrentino — who has been sober for 8 years — additional detailed his drug dependancy.
“I functioned on six to eight 30-milligram Oxycodone, pretty much at all times,” he instructed Us whilst selling the memoir, revealing that his tolerance were given so prime he was once taking “almost 90 Percocets a day.”
Sorrentino went on to mention that he was once “pushing the envelope and the limits” in all sides of his lifestyles.
“I had an obsessive personality and everything I did was zero or a hundred,” he defined to Us. “And once you get into that life of excess, whether it’s drugs, women, money, success, a lot of people don’t make it out.”
Sorrentino additionally found out “smuggle in drugs” whilst filming Jersey Shore, admitting he handled “every season like Mission Impossible.”
“I was jumping out of moving cars, smuggling drugs into different countries within my shoes, taking apart fat burners and reconstituting it with drugs to smuggle it into seasons in Miami,” he recalled, including that he wasn’t that delicate about it. “There [were] many talks with executive producers and the owners of the show, and they desperately tried to help me, and the whole time I was in denial.”
The Jersey Shore: Circle of relatives Holiday celebrity recalled his all-time low second — doing heroin — and the way his mother stored him.
“I had the drugs in my hands. I did the first key bump and I was like, ‘I kind of don’t like it.’ But then a little devil on my shoulder was like, ‘Why don’t you try a little bit more? Maybe you’ll like it then,’” he shared, explaining that he “never thought” heroin was once one thing he would take a look at. “And as I was about to try it for a second time, I could have OD’d right then and there, my phone rang and it was my mom.”
Whilst he’s skilled ups and downs in his lifestyles, Sorrentino mentioned he were given “an amazing story” out of his previous struggles.
“That was the test and the testimony,” Sorrentino instructed Us. “I’m happy and grateful [to be] here to tell it, and I really think that God saved my life in order for me to share this light.”