Anytime Mickey Rourke is making headlines, one can be sure that it isn’t for anything rote or predictable. The Oscar-nominated actor has apparently fallen on harder times career-wise, and reportedly faced the threat of eviction over the weekend, with his manager setting him up in an L.A. hotel last minute. That same manager, Kimberly Hines, also started a GoFundMe campaign that implored fans to help him out during a time of need, with the notion that Rourke himself had signed off on it. But not so fast…
The Iron Man 2 vet posted a video to Instagram, complete with a signature cowboy hat atop his head, where he addressed the GoFundMe efforts by claiming he had nothing to do with getting it started. Not only does he have zero interest in taking money from fans, but he’d rather defile himself with a weapon than go that route. Here’s how he put it:
