Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi can’t imagine what her life would look like if she wasn’t adopted.
In Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek of the Thursday, July 3, episode of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, the cast comes together and reflects on their costar’s emotional adoption journey that led to her connecting with her birth mom.
“All she said was, ‘Are you angry with me?’ and she was crying,” Snooki, 37, tells the cast of her last conversation with the woman who placed her for adoption. “She said, ‘Thank you for understanding. I love you so much.’ I said I have an amazing life. I have three kids now.”
In a confessional interview, Snooki began to consider how different her life would be if she had stayed in Chile with her birth mom and never made it to New Jersey.
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“I always thought if I grew up in Chile and stayed there, obviously I wouldn’t be with [my husband] Jionni,” she says. “I wouldn’t have my kids. I probably would have never moved to Jersey. I love my life.”
In the emotional scene, several cast members praised Snooki’s birth mom for giving her daughter the opportunity to thrive with her adoptive parents.
“What she did, it afforded you to have the opportunities and the family and the life,” Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino says in the clip, “which is beautiful.”
Jenni “JWoww” Farley adds, “How would you have grown up if you were in Chile? There would be no Snooki. Can you believe that? The world wouldn’t have a Snooki. That would be awful.”
A montage of clips began to play, which featured some of Snooki’s most memorable moments on Jersey Shore. The show premiered in December 2009 and continues to be a major hit for MTV.
On Thursday’s episode, Angelina Pivarnick learns about her costar’s milestone for the first time.
While Snooki said she didn’t want to “bother” Angelina, 39, with the developments as she worked on herself, she quickly filled her in with the latest.
“It was very dramatic,” Snooki says, before sharing a photo of her birth mom. “She doesn’t know it’s Snooki.”
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In a confessional interview, Angelina — who previously discovered that the man she believed to be her biological father was not actually her father — said she was interested in learning more about her friend’s experience.
“I’m just so intrigued by her whole story because at the end of the day, my circumstances did not go well,” she says. “But for Nicole, I really hope it’s a different outcome.”
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation airs on MTV Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
