Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino Is Starring in a New, Deeply Personal Show

After years on the Jersey Shore franchise, Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino is branching out with a new show. Sorrentino and his wife, Lauren, will appear in a new reality show that will follow them as they help people dealing with addiction and mental health recovery. Sorrentino, who has been sober for nearly 10 years, spoke about how much this new project means to him.

Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino and his wife will star in a new show

After almost 10 years of sobriety from an addiction to prescription painkillers, Sorrentino is hoping to take his experience and use it to help others. He and his wife are launching a new series that aims to help people dealing with addiction.

“Me and my wife are teaming up, and we’re going to be going door to door to course correct an addict’s life from active addiction into recovery,” he told TMZ. “I will be speaking to both the person suffering from the disease of addiction and my wife will be speaking to the family. And we have a big team, and it’s all happening.”

Sorrentino said he hopes to use the show to “fight for those that are not fighting for themselves.” He added that both he and Sorrentino have been personally touched by addiction. Her younger brother died of an overdose. 

“I’ve turned my pain into purpose, and right now, I feel like I have so much power behind me with this project,” he said. “I feel like the streets are behind me, I feel like the fans and the viewers that have grown up with me, they’re just so inspired and proud with what I’ve done with my life in the past 10 years. And now, like I said, this is the next chapter for me.”

Sorrentino and his wife are both certified as motivational interventionists. He said he hopes to “change the stigma of addiction” with the new series.

“I’m here to prove the comeback is greater than the setback, and I’m here to do that.”

The couple is also opening addiction and mental health treatment facilities

As he works on the new project, Sorrentino is also preparing to open addiction and mental health treatment facilities, The Archangel Centers. 

“If you had told me 10 years ago that the U.S. government would send me to prison, strip me of my passport and voting rights, and hit me with millions in penalties, I would’ve thought it was game over,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “But here I am — living proof that the comeback is always greater than the setback. Against all odds, I turned my life around. Today, I’m happily married with three amazing kids, a published author, nine years sober, and about to launch my own treatment centers … What once seemed impossible is now my reality.”

Per the official website, the treatment centers will take a “holistic approach to treatment, focusing not just on symptoms but also on the underlying issues that contribute to mental health disorders and addiction.”

The treatment centers are currently located in New Jersey, but he hopes to expand nationally and internationally.

“I didn’t get anything I prayed for until I became the kind of person who could receive it. I put in the work, never gave up, and now my story is someone else’s roadmap to survival,” Sorrentino said. “Today, I’m on the front lines, ready to save lives. My experience, strength, and hope will help addicts find recovery, one day at a time.”

Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino spoke about his decision to get sober

Sorrentino has been sober since 2015. That year, he was unemployed and facing eviction, in addition to facing an ongoing tax evasion case. He traveled with a friend to get drugs and received heroin. Though Sorrentino had told himself he’d never use heroin, he feared withdrawal symptoms and decided to take a small dose. 

As he prepared to take more, his mother suddenly called and his girlfriend began banging on the door. Sorrentino said he realized in that moment that he needed help.

“My eyes and my ears were opened just a little bit to understand what was happening,” he told NorthJersey.com. “And what was happening was God was saving my life.”

Sorrentino went to rehab the following day.

“I made a decision upon myself that if I wanted to get out of the hole, I needed to put down the shovel,” he said. “You have to help yourself in order for the universe to see that, for family and friends to see that, and that’s when you start to get the help coming in.”

He celebrated nine years of sobriety in Dec. 2024.

How to get help: In the U.S., contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration helpline at 1-800-662-4357.