That was my problem for many years – how do you turn off the excess?
He continued, And I think it wasn’t just my problem.
The financial success, the former star admits, was like gasoline on fire for his addiction struggles.
Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino.Phillip Faraone/FilmMagic
Reflecting on it now, Sorrentino cringes at the amount of money he put toward his habit.
“I gotta just be accountable and be like, ‘Yeah, that happened.’
He also admitted that while filmingJersey Shore, he would smuggle drugs into the house.
Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino.John Kessler/MTV
“It was extremely hard,” he said.
I didnt have a recovery web connection.
I didnt go to meetings.
I didnt take the suggestions” he toldAsbury Park Pressin 2018.
“I was going to have a go at do it my way.
And obviously I was wrong.”
He returned to rehab in 2015 and recently toldPEOPLEthat he will be eight years sober this December.
“I’m happy to make it this far,” he added.
Sorrentinos memoir hits shelves on Dec. 19.
