Mike “The Situation” Sorrentinois hanging in there as his prison sentence quickly approaches.
Sorrentino’s longtime friend andJersey Shoreco-starVinny Guadagninoopened up to PEOPLE on what Sorrentino’s final days as a freeman have been like.
Guadagnino praised his costar, describing Sorrentino, 36, as “the most mentally strong person” he knows. “It’s from all the things he had to go through so like in a weird way, whatever he’s done in the past, like the bad things, have made him an amazing person so it’s kind of bittersweet that he has to go away,” Guadagnino said.
Vinny Guadagnino and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Sorrentino and his brother Marcwere initially indictedin September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
In April 2017, both menwere indicted on additional chargesincluding tax evasion, structuring and falsifying records.
Then in January, Sorrentinopled guiltyto one count of tax evasion and wassentenced to eight months in prisonon Oct. 5. (His brother Marc pled guilty to one count of aiding in the preparation of a false and fraudulent tax return and wassentenced to two years in prison.)
During his interview with PEOPLE, Gaudagnino revealed he and theJersey Shorecast have plans to visit him in prison.
Paul DelVecchio, Vinny Guadagnino and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino.Nancy Rivera/REX/Shutterstock
“On and off the show he is the best friend, he’ll give you the shirt off his back. He had an addiction problem, you know what I mean, to substances, and he had to go through the program and it’s like retrained his brain completely and now he applies that to all of these other things, like when he has to go away.”
Jersey Shorecast.Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock
Guadagnino also spoke on his other co-starRonnie Ortiz-Magroamid news that he hasfiled a police reportagainst Jen Harley after an alleged violent altercation during a New Year’s Eve Party.
The on-and-off again couple, who share 9-month-old daughterAriana Sky, allegedly got into a heated argument while at the Las Vegas strip club Hustler, a source previously told PEOPLE.
“I can say for sure the constant thing in his life is being there for his daughter and being a great Dad,” Gaudagnino explained.
source: people.com
