Mickey Rourke wishes y'all would please take your money back. There's $90,000 still sitting there

Mickey Rourke is doubling down connected his disgust implicit a fundraiser that rapidly raised much than $100,000 connected his behalf, calling it an embarrassing “scam” and a “vicious cruel lie” and promising “severe repercussions to [the] idiosyncratic who did this precise atrocious thing” to him.

At the aforesaid time, the fundraiser — aimed astatine keeping Rourke successful his location erstwhile helium faced eviction due to the fact that of astir $60,000 successful unpaid rent — has been taken down, with the actor’s sanction being utilized present by others to boost their much anonymous efforts.

(A Friday greeting hunt for “Mickey Rourke” connected GoFundMe yielded much than a twelve campaigns drafting disconnected the hunt worth of the actor’s high-profile concern but the run acceptable up for the “9½ Weeks” histrion was obscurity to beryllium found.)

The GoFundMe had been placed connected intermission past week aft much than $100,000 was raised successful 2 days, with Rourke’s manager Kimberly Hines writing, “Thank you truthful overmuch for your generosity and for lasting with Mickey during this time. Your enactment genuinely means a large woody to us, and we are grateful for each donation. We stay committed to uncovering a solution and are moving with Mickey to find the adjacent steps.”

Rejecting the donations, Rourke called the fundraiser “humiliating” and “really f— embarrassing” successful a video posted past week, saying helium didn’t request the money.

“I wouldn’t cognize what a GoFund instauration is successful a cardinal years,” said the actor, 73, who was a starring antheral successful the 1980s with movies including “Barfly” and “Angel Heart” and was Oscar-nominated for his enactment successful 2008’s “The Wrestler.” “My beingness is precise elemental and I don’t spell to extracurricular sources similar that.”

He said aboriginal successful the video that helium “would ne'er inquire strangers oregon fans for a nickel. That’s not my style.”

Hines mightiness disagree, arsenic she said she’s the 1 who has been fronting the wealth to screen Rourke’s determination retired of the Beverly Grove location and into a edifice and subsequently into a Koreatown apartment.

Hines’ assistant’s sanction had been listed arsenic the creator of the fundraiser, with Hines named arsenic the beneficiary. The actor’s manager of 9 years told the Hollywood Reporter connected Jan. 6 that Rourke knew the origins of the effort, contempt saying helium did not: She and her adjunct had tally the thought past his adjunct earlier it was launched, she said, and some teams were OK with it.

“Nobody’s trying to grift Mickey. I privation him working. I don’t privation him doing a GoFundMe,” Hines told THR. “The bully happening astir this is that helium got 4 movie offers since yesterday. People are emailing him movie offers now, which is large due to the fact that nobody’s been calling him for a agelong time.”

But Rourke was inactive fretting implicit it Thursday connected Instagram, wherever helium said successful a mates of posts that determination was inactive much than $90,000 to beryllium returned to his supporters and promised that his lawyer was “doing everything successful his power” to marque definite radical got their “hard earned money” back.

He besides thanked immoderate “great” friends who helium said reached retired aft seeing the “scam” that helium needed money, including UFC brag Dana White and combatant Bill “Superfoot” Wallace.

Rourke said successful his Jan. 6 video, changeable portion helium was staying astatine a hotel, “I’m grateful for what I have. I’ve got a extortion implicit my head, I’ve got nutrient to eat. ... Everything’s OK. Just get your wealth back, please. I don’t request anybody’s money, and I wouldn’t bash it this way. I’ve got excessively overmuch pride. This ain’t my style.”