Mickey Rourke has denied asking for “fucking charity” even though a GoFundMe in his name has raised $100,000 and counting to stop his eviction.
The “confused” and “frustrated” actor insisted in an Instagram video on Monday: “That’s not me, okay?”
The 73-year-old claimed, “In a million years, you wouldn’t know what the GoFund(Me) Foundation is.”
He added: “If I need money, I don’t ask for some shitty charity. I’d rather stick a gun up my butt and pull the trigger…My life is very simple. I’m not going to rely on outside sources like that.”
Rourke stressed that it is not his “style” to “ask strangers, fans, anyone for a dime” because he has “too much pride.”
He called on fans who donated to the fundraiser to “get their money back.”
As for “Who did this?”, the Celebrity Big Brother alum speculated, “There’s only one person I can think of who would do something like that and I hope it’s not the person I’m thinking of. It’s humiliating… but I’m sure we’ll get through it like anything else.”
In particular, the fundraiser was said to have been created with the “full permission” of Lia-Joel Jones, a woman who claimed to be an assistant to Rourke’s manager, Kimberly Hines.
Mr. Hines is listed as a beneficiary.
Page Six reached out to Jones, Hines and GoFundMe for comment, but have not yet received a response.
Elsewhere in Rourke’s social media uploads, he mentioned his financial woes after reports he owed nearly $60,000 in back rent.
“I wasn’t very diplomatic,” the “Sin City” star said of the “really bad job” of managing his career.
“I had to undergo over 20 years of therapy to overcome the damage done to me all those years ago,” he told his followers. “I worked hard to get through it. I’m not that person anymore.”
The former professional boxer is said to be currently staying in a luxury hotel in West Hollywood, where prices cost upwards of $550 a night, but he recently borrowed money “from a great friend.”
The Daily Mail reported over the weekend that Mr Rourke is a “rich man’s pauper” who lives “paycheck to paycheck”.
“He spends money so quickly that by the time he starts making money, he’s back at square one,” a source told the magazine.
