Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino wears this ‘Jersey Shore’-inspired Halloween costume: ‘With a little change’

Halloween is always a situation.

Every October, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino gets an influx of photos of “Jersey Shore” fans dressed like him — with a neck brace and sunglasses — so this year he posed as himself. Decided to go and entertain them.

The now-infamous scene that inspired the costume – the reality star banging her head into a concrete wall in the MTV series – aired 13 years ago.

“As we get closer to Halloween, I’m starting to feel overwhelmed,” he told The Post.

“I love my fans and I repost everyone… You’ll see my story and you’ll see all the neck braces and sunglasses.”

Sorrentino, 42, who has 3.4 million followers on InstagramSaid that he is always impressed by the people who dress up like him every year. So this time he wanted to honor her with the dress of his choice.

“I wanted to surprise the fans and bring the look back with a slight change,” said Sorrentino, who added a hospital gown to the ensemble.

The shocking reality TV moment – ​​which left him hospitalized with a sprained neck and concussion – is from Season 4 of the show, when he battled drug addiction.

When his co-star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro quarreled with him, he became enraged, and ran away after crashing into a wall of the house they were staying in in Florence, Italy.

“It’s hard to watch because I was going through a lot of pain at that time. We’re looking at one of the biggest reality TV shows in the country… We were getting six, seven, eight million viewers per night, which was unheard of and a record for MTV,” said Sorrentino, who Now starring in the spinoff of the show. “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation,” is now in its seventh season.

“And when I was going through the withdrawal I collided with the concrete wall built by Caesar, sprained my neck and got a concussion. I mean, dude, you can’t do that. You can’t script it.”

Now, Sorrentino, who will celebrate his ninth year of sobriety on Christmas Eve, is preparing to open his own treatment center next year — an idea he revealed after serving eight months in federal prison For tax evasion.

“When I actually got out of jail, I had a meeting with my publicist and my manager and they said… ‘We want to take your five- to seven-year vision board,'” recalled Sorrentino, who recently The lease was signed for the first time in. His Archangel Center In Mercer County, NJ.

“And the first thing on my wish list was to open my own treatment center.”

The reality star, who himself went through four stints of rehab, told The Post last year that he was addicted to the painkiller Roxicet, the equivalent of 30 milligrams of Percocet, and at his worst, was consuming 10 of them three times a day. Were staying.

Sorrentino named the facilities after St. Michael the Archangel and said that although his centers are not religion-based, his Catholic faith helped him recover from addiction.

“They say most addicts believe in God because they’ve met the devil, and that statement really stuck with me,” he said. “I believe God spared my life so I could tell my story to help other people.”

The father of three, who will run the center with his wife Lauren Pesce, will take a hands-on approach with clients, “doing small groups, quizzes, tours.”

“When I come over to give a speech…usually I don’t even have to say a word and people are cheering and screaming and they love me and my story. And I’m like, ‘You know what? ”I’m going to use it for good,” he said.

Pesce, who lost his brother Christopher to an overdose in 2013 at the age of 25, will be an integral part of the process.

“Well, he’s the boss right there,” Sorrentino said of her college sweetheart Pesce, whom she married in 2018.

“She’s going to come from the family aspect of it… We’re going to dedicate a scholarship to honor her brother’s memory.”

Before his entry into television, Sorrentino, who grew up in Manalapan, NJ, was a local drug dealer – and he said he had childhood friends, some of whom had recently parted ways. of his daughter Luna Baptized, marvel at his transformation.

“A friend of mine said, ‘I’ve seen the good, the bad, the ugly, and now the beautiful,'” he recalled.

This December, “Jersey Shore” will celebrate its 15th anniversary, and Sorrentino, who lives in Holmdel, NJ, is ready to celebrate the milestone.

“I think I’ll try to throw a big party… because the cast and I are very close,” he said.

He’s also not ruling out the idea of ​​a spinoff show focusing on his family.

He said, “I wouldn’t say no to it…something about the conditions.”

“We have a beautiful family, and we have a lot going on. You never know what will happen in the future… there could be a governor’s position in a few years.”