{"id":1387442,"date":"2019-02-12T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1014304"},"modified":"2019-02-12T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:53:00","slug":"ronnie-ortiz-magro-breaks-his-silence-on-recent-rehab-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/music-news\/ronnie-ortiz-magro-breaks-his-silence-on-recent-rehab-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Ortiz-Magro Breaks His Silence on Recent Rehab Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.439446366782\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019112\/rs_634x1024-190212064623-634-Ronnie-Ortiz-Magro-Sighting-LA-LT-021209-BGUS_1484081_005.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ronnie Ortiz-Magro\" alt=\"Ronnie Ortiz-Magro\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Hollywood To You \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.213349225268\">\n<p><strong>Ronnie Magro-Ortiz<\/strong> sought help and now he&#8217;s ready to talk about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fans have watched the\u00a0<em>Jersey Shore<\/em> star&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/981502\/the-highs-and-lows-of-ronnie-ortiz-magro-and-jen-harley-s-insanely-tumultuous-relationship\" target=\"_blank\">tumultuous personal life<\/a> play out on the small screen and on social media as of late, but his recent rehab stay was something he kept to himself until now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I decided to go to treatment because&#8230;I was just making the wrong decisions and I was very depressed,&#8221; he told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ronnie-ortiz-magro-reveals-he-went-to-rehab-i-hit-rock-bottom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Us Weekly<\/a><\/em>. &#8220;When I was depressed, I would turn to drinking and then when I would drink, bad things would just continue to happen because I wasn&#8217;t reacting the way I should.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s unclear how long he stayed in treatment, the 33-year-old acknowledged that this will be a lifetime struggle. &#8220;I&#8217;m still struggling. I&#8217;m going to struggle for the rest of my life,&#8221; he told the magazine. &#8220;It&#8217;s a monkey that&#8217;s on your back and it&#8217;s never going to get off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>However, Ortiz-Magro reached a point where he needed help.\u00a0&#8220;I was definitely in a place where I didn&#8217;t know how to control my life anymore,&#8221; he told\u00a0<em>Us Weekly<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While he was angry and resentful toward himself for having to go to rehab, he made the decision with both himself and his 10-month-old daughter\u00a0<strong>Ariana Sky<\/strong> in mind.\u00a0&#8220;I decided to go to treatment because I wanted to be a better person, a better father for my daughter,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.946257197697\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018712\/rs_634x1024-180812141400-634-ronnie-magro-ortiz-jen-harley-puerto-rico-081118.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Jen Harley, Daughter, Ariana\" alt=\"Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Jen Harley, Daughter, Ariana\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12.821917808219\">\n<p>Ariana&#8217;s mother,\u00a0<strong>Jen Harley<\/strong>, gave fans a hint that he was working on himself just last week when she <a target=\"_blank\">publicly criticized him for canceling their<\/a> Valentine&#8217;s Day plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry but if you go away for 6 weeks to become a better boyfriend, father, person, etc to work on your family but you choose to cancel all of our plans on Valentine&#8217;s Day so you can appear on a dating show bc you need the money that bad over your family\u2026you&#8217;re a joke,&#8221; Jen shared on Instagram Stories. &#8220;How did you better anything?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1014304\/ronnie-ortiz-magro-breaks-his-silence-on-recent-rehab-stay?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! 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