This actuality star owes his survival to ‘The View’

The forged of “Jersey Shore: Household Trip” acquired sentimental on Tuesday’s episode of “The View.” Whereas reflecting as a gaggle on their 14 years of actuality TV stardom, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino revealed Whoopi Goldberg to be an intricate member and supporter of the “Jersey Shore” household for the reason that starting.

“I’m very grateful that my life story may sooner or later be somebody’s survival information,” Sorrentino, 41, stated. “My e book [“Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation – How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison “] that’s popping out within the fall how I overcame dependancy and loss in jail. I consider that e book goes to avoid wasting a number of lives.”

He continued, “Consider it or not, Whoopi’s in that e book.”

With a smile plastered on her face and the digital camera pointed at her, the Oscar-winning actress recalled her early connection to the forged.

“Once they first got here [to “The View”], they had been getting a number of warmth from individuals, and I used to be so glad to see you, as a result of they had been recent and so they had been simply able to do stuff,” Goldberg stated. “I stated to them ‘Pay attention, they’re going to return for you, you’ve simply acquired to remain sturdy, it doesn’t matter what.’”

Sorrentino emphasised additional the kindness he remembers Goldberg particularly exhibiting him after the primary season of “Jersey Shore” premiered in 2009.

“Whoopi would pull me apart each time I’d come to the present. The glasses had been tipped, the pupils had been dilated. She knew, and it wasn’t what she stated, it’s how she stated it, and I’ll always remember that. So, thanks,” he stated.

Goldberg responded: “I simply need to say I’m so pleased with y’all, since you didn’t allow them to outline you, you all outlined yourselves, which is all the pieces.”

Sorrentino has talked openly of his struggles with an opioid dependancy that began in school.

In 2021, he revealed that he was celebrating five years of sobriety.

In 2018, he plead responsible to tax evasion and was sentence to eight months of jail.

The upcoming season of “Jersey Shore: Household Trip” premieres Thursday on MTV.

Returning forged members embody Sorrentino, Vinny Guadagnino, Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi, Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley, Paul ‘Pauly D’ DelVecchio, Sammi ‘Sweetheart’ Giancola, Angelina Pivarnick and Deena Nicole Cortese.

Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Ginacola’s ex, may also make appearances all through the season, though he isn’t on the official forged record.

All 9 of the unique forged members will reunite for the primary time in “Jersey Shore historical past.”