Mickey Rourke doesn’t need your cash.
He would moderately shoot himself in a very graphic method — don’t ask for particulars, it’s very Mickey Rourke — than take charity whereas he’s getting kicked out of his house, the actor and former boxer stated in a video posted Monday night time on Instagram. “That’s not me,” the 73-year-old stated.
Holding a Chihuahua named Fortunate in his lap, Rourke alleged that he didn’t know who arrange a GoFundMe marketing campaign on his behalf over the weekend. The hassle, ostensibly aimed toward holding Rourke in his house when he confronted eviction due to practically $60,000 in unpaid lease, was arrange Sunday by members of his administration group and raised greater than its $100,000 objective by Tuesday morning. Dozens of the greater than 2,700 individuals who donated posted messages about how a lot the actor’s movies had meant to them through the years.
“I wouldn’t know what a GoFund basis is in 1,000,000 years,” stated Rourke, who was a number one man within the Eighties with films together with “Barfly” and “Angel Coronary heart” and was Oscar-nominated for his work in 2008’s “The Wrestler.” “My life may be very easy and I don’t go to exterior sources like that. Yeah, it’s embarrassing, however I’m positive I’ll recover from it, like the rest.”
As for the cash, he stated later within the video that he “would by no means ask strangers or followers for a nickel. That’s not my fashion. You ask anybody who is aware of me. It’s humiliating and it’s actually f— embarrassing. … If any individual gave me — they stated it’s as much as $100,000. I wouldn’t take a f— nickel from anyone.”
However don’t mistake this for an outburst from the person Rourke was, he stated. He has merely been in “a extremely unhealthy state of affairs” with the home he was renting for years in Beverly Grove. New house owners purchased the place, he stated, raised the lease to $7,000 a month from $5,200 and wouldn’t repair something.
Rourke alleged that the flooring have been rotted, there was no operating water in a few locations there ought to have been and the place was infested with rodents.
Ricardo Villalobos, the legal professional representing proprietor Eric Goldie within the eviction case, didn’t reply instantly Tuesday to The Instances’ request for remark about Rourke’s allegations. The eviction paperwork, reviewed by The Instances, was filed Dec. 29 and cited $59,100 in unpaid lease for 2025.
In the meantime, Rourke’s supervisor of 9 years, Kimberly Hines, talked to the Hollywood Reporter in regards to the GoFundMe in a name from Europe. She had spoken with Rourke a few occasions Sunday, she stated, and he or she stated it’s not true that he has no concept who began the fundraising effort.
“No person’s attempting to grift Mickey. I need him working. I don’t need him doing a GoFundMe,” Hines informed THR. “The advantage of that is that he acquired 4 film affords since yesterday. Individuals are emailing him film affords now, which is nice as a result of no one’s been calling him for a very long time.”
She and her assistant ran the thought previous Rourke’s assistant, she stated, and everybody thought the fundraiser is likely to be useful. Hines and her assistant organized for movers and a U-Haul, acquired the “Iron Man 2” villain and his three canine out and into a close-by resort and secured an residence for him to maneuver into quickly in Koreatown, she stated, earlier than his landlords have been to vary the locks Tuesday on what she referred to as an “uninhabitable” home.
“There was black mould,” in the home, Hines informed THR. “No operating water. So principally, we are able to’t even transfer any of the furnishings out. There was water injury. So he can’t even take most of his belongings with him as a result of all of the furnishings is totally destroyed.” Somebody recorded the injury on video, she stated, whereas a few folks “have been at his home packing up all of his valuables that could possibly be salvaged, and so they have been moved to this new residence.”
Hines informed THR that she plans to stay as Rourke’s supervisor regardless of the chaos. She didn’t reply to The Instances’ request for remark Monday.
“[N]obody right here has finished something improper,” she informed the commerce. “It was finished with a great intention, with a great coronary heart. … Proper now, I’m fronting the cash for Mickey to get him out of this emergency state of affairs.”
Hines stated Rourke ought to in all probability take the donated cash, as a result of she will finance him for under so lengthy. The actor has by no means been nice at managing his cash, she stated.
“He doesn’t actually know the phrase moderation,” she informed THR. “So he both has lots or has nothing. He lives verify to verify.” She stated Rourke’s accountant was attempting to get the actor’s cash state of affairs so as and it was time for a actuality verify with the actor about dwelling inside his means off Social Safety and revenue from any work which may come his method.
In his video, Rourke admitted the enterprise finish of his enterprise has by no means been his sturdy swimsuit.
“Hear, I’ve finished a extremely horrible job in managing my profession. I wasn’t very diplomatic. I needed to go to over 20 years of remedy to recover from the injury that was finished to me years in the past, and I labored very laborious to get by means of that,” the “9½ Weeks” star stated. “I’m not that individual anymore. … You gotta speak to the final a number of folks I’ve labored with. Speak to Robert Rodriguez, speak to Francis Coppola, speak to Darren Aronofsky. , I’m not that wild man I used to be 20-something years in the past. However you pay the worth in your previous.”
That stated, he was adamant that the fundraising effort was “actually embarrassing” and that individuals who donated ought to get their a refund.
However, he stated, “Like all storms, this’ll cross, and I’ll go to work and issues will get again to no matter regular is.”
Till then, Rourke stated, don’t fear about him.
“I’m grateful for what I’ve. I’ve acquired a roof over my head, I’ve acquired meals to eat. … All the things’s OK. Simply get your a refund, please. I don’t want anyone’s cash, and I wouldn’t do it this fashion. I’ve acquired an excessive amount of delight. This ain’t my fashion.”
