Jersey Shore’s Ronnie Ortiz-Magro Shares Daughter’s Gut-Wrenching Reaction to His 2021 Legal Trouble – E! Online

In a confessional, Ronnie recalled, “Feeling Ariana’s disappointment, I felt like I failed. As a parent, your job is to protect your child. That’s something I should have protected her from and I didn’t.”

The Jersey Shore star told the treatment center patients that he was unable to see Ariana for six months. Ronnie, who noted he had first begun drinking as a teen, added, “I lived four or five of her years in a haze and I beat myself up for it. But you just gotta do the right thing. And I still don’t have it figured out. I don’t. But I’m figuring it out.”

Ronnie—who split from Jen in late 2019— said he took anger management classes and “so many different things to make sure that I never got back to that moment.”

“I am becoming a better person,” he added. “I’m happy, I’m healthy, I have my daughter and that’s all that matters.”