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After eight months, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro returned to Jersey Shore: Household Trip with the announcement that he’s one yr sober.
The truth star, 36, made an look on Thursday evening’s episode of the Jersey Shore spinoff, the place he opened as much as costar Mike “The Scenario” Sorrentino about his journey.
“It has been a protracted yr,” mentioned Ortiz-Magro over lunch. “It has been plenty of simply doing the best factor, being a full-time dad, and being sober. I am residing the very best life I can, in the future at a time.”
Sorrentino celebrated his personal sobriety of six years in December, and he inspired his buddy to additionally keep on “the highway to redemption.”
The episode was filmed earlier this spring, and Ortiz-Magro shared that he has “mainly full-time” custody of his daughter Ariana, 4, whom he shares with ex Jen Harley.
Ortiz-Magro additionally revealed being in a “state of melancholy” however that he’s “enhancing.” In a confessional, the fact star admitted he is made errors.
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“I have been by way of some s—,” he mentioned. “I f—ed up. I perceive and that is a part of restoration as effectively. What issues is I received by way of it, and I will proceed to get by way of it.”
The MTV star introduced final spring that he was taking a break from the longtime actuality collection to hunt medical therapy for “psychological well being points” that he has lengthy “ignored.”
“After speaking to the workforce at MTV, we’ve mutually agreed that I’ll step away from the present whereas I search medical therapy for psychological well being points that I’ve ignored for too lengthy,” Ortiz-Magro wrote in a press release on his Instagram Story at the moment. “My primary purpose now’s going through my struggles head on.”
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The choice got here after his April 2021 arrest over an alleged home violence incident. Ortiz-Magro mentioned after stepping away that the change of tempo was good for him.
“I really feel nice. 4 months sober. I give up ingesting, received engaged, full-time father, you realize, residing an excellent life,” he advised TMZ final yr.
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“I stepped away [from Jersey Shore] to take care of my psychological well being, be a father to my baby, be a fiancé to my girl,” he mentioned on the time, referring to his then-fiancé, Saffire Matos. “I will be again and, you realize, all of the followers love me and I really like them too, so I will give them what they need and I will see them quickly.”
Though he received engaged shortly after that, he broke issues off with Matos in July.
“He is in good spirits and coping with it in the future at a time,” a supply near Ortiz-Magro beforehand advised PEOPLE. “He continues to give attention to his well being, sobriety and the well-being of his daughter.”
