Mickey Rourke has triggered a wave of on-line concern after followers reacted to pictures exhibiting him bald after which, days later, clearly sporting a wig, sparking fears he could possibly be hiding most cancers.
RadarOnline.com can reveal Rourke, 73, was photographed on New Yr’s Day exterior the Los Angeles dwelling he’s at present renting, the place he’s going through attainable eviction over almost $60,000 in alleged unpaid lease.
The actor was seen with a very shaven and blotchy head, trying matted and unrecognizable to followers accustomed to his lengthy hair, earlier than reappearing days later along with his apparent wig again on as he left the property and headed to a West Hollywood lodge.
A supply near the actor stated the speedy change in look unsettled followers.
The insider added: “Folks noticed Mickey bald after which all of a sudden with a full head of hair once more and instantly jumped to the worst conclusions. There have been fears he was hiding most cancers or critical sickness.”
However the supply added: “Nevertheless, the reality is way less complicated, Mickey is extraordinarily useless about his hair loss and hates being seen with out his wig.
“For need of a greater phrase, that is only a case of his followers wigging out over what’s a fairly tragic new search for Mickey, contemplating how he seemed in his prime.”
Rourke was later noticed sporting denims, a blue shirt and his trademark cowboy hat as he left the home, which sits within the Beverly Grove neighborhood simply south of West Hollywood.
His three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom rental, in-built 1926, was as soon as dwelling to crime novelist Raymond Chandler.
The sightings got here as Rourke broke his silence after a GoFundMe web page appeared on-line searching for donations to assist him cowl a lease debt of $59,100.
In a video replace for his followers, Rourke stated: “One thing’s come up that I am actually pissed off, confused (about) and I do not perceive. Any person arrange some sort of basis or fund for me to donate cash like charity, and that is not me.
“Okay. I would moderately, if I wanted cash, I would not ask for no f—— charity. I would moderately stick a gun up my a– and pull the set off. So, whoever did this, I do not know why they did it. I do not perceive it. I would not know what a GoFundMe basis is in 1,000,000 years.
“My life could be very easy, I do not go to exterior sources like that, and, yeah, it’s embarrassing, however I am certain I will recover from it like every part else.”
Rourke additionally admitted he has suffered monetary issues lately, blaming his troubles on an absence of performing work throughout the COVID pandemic and Hollywood strikes.
He added, “Hear, I’ve completed a very horrible job in managing my profession. I wasn’t diplomatic. I needed to go to over 20 years of remedy to recover from the injury that was completed to me years in the past. I labored very arduous to work by that. And I am not that individual anymore… I am not that wild man that I used to be… however you pay the worth for that.”
He added the GoFundMe web page referred to as Help Mickey to Stop Eviction shouldn’t be licensed.
Rourke urged: “This factor could be very embarrassing, and for those who’ve given cash… do not give any cash, and for those who gave cash, get it again. Whether or not you gave money or a test, or whoever you despatched it to, and I’ll speak to my lawyer… and resolve this.”
“There’s just one individual I can consider that might do such a factor, and I hope that it is not the individual I am serious about. It is humiliating,” he continued.
“If I wanted cash, and I did borrow cash from a very nice buddy of mine, finally I will say who it was, and he acquired me out of a jam, , COVID and the writers’ strike killed my cash.”
Rourke added he has been going by hassles along with his rental dwelling in Los Angeles, however he is adamant he stopped paying lease as a result of the landlords did not repair issues with the home, and stated the case is because of be fought out in court docket.
He defined: “I used to be in a very unhealthy state of affairs with the place I used to be renting. Every part was good for 5 – 6 years, after which two scumbags from New York purchased the home, they usually would not repair something, so I stated, ‘I am not paying lease as a result of there’s mice, there’s rats, the ground is rotten, one bathtub there isn’t any water, in two totally different sinks there was no water.'”
“And this (GoFundMe) has all come on the similar time. I do not know if these guys, these scumbags, are behind it… We’re going to go to court docket, however I might by no means ask strangers or followers or anyone for a nickel. I imply, that is not my type.”
Rourke added: “It is humiliating, and it is actually f—— embarrassing… they stated it is as much as $100,000 and I would not take a f—— nickel from charity, from anyone. So we’ll resolve this and like all storms this fashion cross and I will return to work and issues will return to no matter regular is.”