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The Situation is opening up about his addiction to pills that caused him to finally hit rock bottom and says he feels "lucky to be alive."

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The Jersey Shore star tells In Touch Weekly about his rock bottom moment. "I was in a hotel room -- probably in LA, Vegas or Miami -- and I was watching a Brittany Murphy movie," says the 30-year-old reality star, who was taking more than 15 doses a day of the painkiller Oxycodone at the time. 

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The Situation said he realized in that moment that he felt his world gradually crumbling. "Am I going to be that guy that was so awesome on the Jersey Shore and then . . . that's it?" But after two years of on-and-off drug use, he said he still believed he could handle his addiction alone. "I really thought I could fix it, that I could turn it around by myself."

He reveals that family eventually played a part in his recovery by urging him to enter rehab after a difficult trip to Australia. "On the plane home, they said, 'Mike, you've got to handle this now,'" he says. "I knew that they were right -- that if I didn't fix the problem there'd be no Situation."

For more of the exclusive interview, pick up the latest copy of In Touch, on newsstands now.

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