VIDEO – FAME IS A DRUG TOO –
Dec. 1, 2023 – In his upcoming memoir, Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation, the 41-year-old talks candidly about how his $500,000 addiction controlled his life, and led him down a path of self-destruction that saw him smuggling drugs across the world. He continued: ‘I smuggled shit in a fat burner bottle so it looked like I was taking a fat burner the whole season, when in fact I was taking my own mixture of Oxy 40 and 50’s, ‘I was never nearly caught on set because I knew that there was a camera and a microphone on me 24/7,’ he said. ‘But every season, every location, every country was like Mission impossible. Smuggling in the drugs and then obviously, I found different ways to ingest it.’
Mike explained that he knew better than to reveal anything on camera because ‘that would have been a detriment to me … maybe they would have fired me or given me the ultimatum sooner.’
However, there was some ‘close calls’ with his cast mates during press days in-between seasons – with the star describing a particular instance with Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley.
‘There was a close call with Jenni in the book where we were doing a press day between seasons one and two, and I offered her something,’ Mike recalled. ‘She said no. Right then and there, I gave myself up so she knew.’
