Mickey Rourke once again took to Instagram to address the GoFundMe fiasco launched by his manager after news that The Wrestler actor was facing eviction after being sued by his landlord.
“Vicious cruel godamm lie to hustle money using my fuckin name so motherfuckin enbarassing,” Rourke wrote on a social media post. “There will b severe repercussions to individual who did this very bad thing to me and anyone who knows me knows payback k will be goddamm severe!!!!!!”
The post was one in several the actor shared on Thursday, Jan. 15, including one wishing his friend, fellow actor Eric Dane, who revealed his ALS diagnosis last year, well. In another, Rourke wrote in the caption alongside a black-and-white photo of himself, that over $100,000 had been raised by ” CONCERNED STRANGERS” and that his attorney was working on getting the money returned to donors. He added that there is still $90,000 that needs to refunded and urged people to get their money back. “THE PERSON WHO PULLED THIS CRAP SHOULDNT GET ONE FUCEN DOLLAR,” the actor wrote and said that his main concern at the moment was the wellbeing of Dane.
Earlier this month, Rourke said that he was not involved with the GoFundMe campaign launched under the premise of helping the actor to stay in his home, saying it was “humiliating” and that he would “never ask strangers or fans or anybody for a nickel.”
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Kimberly Hines, who’s been Rourke’s manager for over a decade and launched the GoFundMe with her assistant, told The Hollywood Reporter that the fundraiser was not a “grift.” Hines said that the actor was aware of who was behind the effort, while also acknowledging that it was possible Rourke didn’t fully understand what a GoFundMe was when she presented the idea to him.
Following Rourke’s denouncement of the GoFundMe, Hines told fans that if Rourke didn’t want the money, donors would be reimbursed. “He’s calling me for money. He’s calling friends for money,” claimed Hines. “A GoFund is set up for him, and now he’s rejecting it? ‘OK, Mick, no problem.’ But nobody here has done anything wrong.”
