Mickey Rourke denied asking for “f–king charity” despite a GoFundMe in his name raising $100,000 and counting to keep him from eviction.
The “confused” and “frustrated” actor insisted in an Instagram video Monday, “That’s not me, OK?”
The 73-year-old claimed he “wouldn’t know what a GoFund[Me] foundation is in a million years.”
He added, “If I needed money, I wouldn’t ask for no f–king charity. I’d rather stick a gun up my ass and pull the trigger … My life is very simple, I wouldn’t go to outside sources like that.”
Rourke doubled down on it not being his “style” to “ask strangers or fans or anybody for a nickel” because he has “too much pride.”
He urged fans who donated to the fundraiser to “get [their] money back.”
As for “whoever did this,” the “Celebrity Big Brother” alum speculated, “There’s only one person I can think of that would do such a thing, and I hope it’s not the person I’m thinking about. It’s humiliating … But I’m sure I’ll get over it like anything else.”
The fundraiser, notably, was allegedly created with Rourke’s “full permission” by Liya-Joelle Jones, a woman claiming to be his manager Kimberly Hines’ assistant.
Hines is listed as the beneficiary.
Page Six has reached out to Jones, Hines and GoFundMe for comment but have yet to hear back.
Elsewhere in Rourke’s social media upload, he addressed his financial woes in the wake of reports he owes nearly $60,000 in back rent.
“I wasn’t diplomatic,” the “Sin City” star said of the “really terrible job” he has done managing his career.
“I had to go to over 20 years of therapy to get over the damage that was done to me years ago,” he told his followers. “I worked very hard to work through that. I’m not that person anymore.”
The ex-professional boxer, who we hear is currently staying at a luxury West Hollywood hotel costing at least $550 a night, did cop to recently borrowing money “from a great friend”
Daily Mail reported over the weekend that Rourke is “rich poor” and lives “paycheck-to-paycheck.”
A source explained to the outlet, “He spends … so fast that he is at square one right around the time that he starts making money.”
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