It’s been 48 hours Mickey Rourke would in all probability moderately neglect. The Nineteen Eighties display screen heartthrob, who earned a 2009 Oscar nomination for his comeback car The Wrestler, discovered himself going through eviction from the Spanish bungalow in Los Angeles he has known as dwelling for over a decade.
Out of funds, his supervisor of 9 years, Kimberly Hines, and her assistant launched an emergency GoFundMe early Sunday to avoid wasting Rourke, 73, from the specter of homelessness.
After The Hollywood Reporter coated the fundraising effort and the media caught wind of the story, nevertheless, Rourke, ensconced in a West Hollywood lodge till he can relocate to a extra everlasting residence in Koreatown, posted an Instagram video disavowing any information of the “humiliating” fundraiser and pledging to return each “nickel” to fearful followers.
To clear up all of the confusion over the GoFundMe, Hines known as THR from Europe to stroll us by means of the occasions that led to its launch — and supply an replace on Rourke’s present standing and well-being.
Kimberly, are you able to clear up the confusion over Mickey’s GoFundMe?
Within the final 48 hours, we moved him out of his home; we put him up in [a West Hollywood hotel]. The GoFundMe was achieved for Mickey. That cash’s going to Mickey. It’s not going to me. And if Mickey doesn’t need this cash now and decides, “I don’t need assist, it’s prefer it’s charity,” the cash might be returned.
He doesn’t actually have a key to his home. We needed to get movers there, get all his clothes out, manage a brand new residence for him, get a storage shed. All of that is being paid for by his administration workforce, which is me.
How was the GoFundMe thought offered to Mickey?
Together with your assist, we have been shocked that the GoFundMe took off. We’re like, “Let’s do that little GoFundMe factor. We’ll see what occurs. This can assist Mickey.” And Dima, his assistant, and I have been like, “That is good. It should assist Mickey.” We stated, “Mickey, there’s some people who need to show you how to out. ” He’s like, “OK, nice.” I don’t suppose he understood, and now it’s taken on this media frenzy, and he flipped out.
However to be clear, the GoFundMe is respectable and 100% for Mickey?
Sure. And now it appears to be like unhealthy on us. No one’s attempting to grift Mickey. I need him working. I don’t need him doing a GoFundMe. The benefit of that is that he bought 4 film affords since yesterday. Persons are emailing him film affords now, which is nice as a result of no one’s been calling him for a very long time.
Is he in any respect touched about all of the love he’s been getting on GoFundMe?
This factor has taken off like loopy. I checked out it this morning. I’m like, “Oh my God, he’s nearly raised $100,000.” The one contact we’ve had with GoFundMe was, how can we get the cash to Mickey? He doesn’t have a checking account. We’re simply doing every little thing we will to get it to him.
They have been altering the locks at his home on Tuesday. We simply wished to get him out of there. He bought to the lodge. We bought the canine out. We bought him arrange. We bought what he wants for the following week. Then we organized movers. Then we bought every little thing, all his clothes packed up. I rented a U-Haul.
Nobody’s touched this GoFundMe cash. This cash has been to assist Mickey. If Mickey doesn’t need the cash, the cash will return. It’s placing me in a really unhealthy place the place now I’m financing his transfer and the lodge and the movers and his storage. Mickey was cool with getting assist the opposite day. And now Mickey’s like, “I’m not taking charity.”
You stated that he was arrange at an residence. Is that totally different from the lodge?
Now we have him on the lodge proper now along with his three canine. After which now we have an residence that now we have rented for him in Koreatown. That’s the place all his clothes went yesterday. He has no furnishings there as a result of the state of his home was so unhealthy.
My assistant was there, Eric, along with his finest buddy, Frenchie, and so they went over and there was really even a digital camera man who filmed all of it. There was black mould. No operating water. So mainly, we will’t even transfer any of the furnishings out. There was water harm. So he can’t even take most of his belongings with him as a result of all of the furnishings is totally destroyed. Eric and Frenchie have been at his home packing up all of his valuables that may very well be salvaged, and so they have been moved to this new residence.
How lengthy has he lived in the home he was simply evicted from?
Mickey’s been there for years. Ever since I’ve managed him, so over 10 years. This new man, Eric Gold, he purchased the property a 12 months and a half in the past and raised the hire from $5,200 to $7,000. However the home has completely simply gone. The fridge’s not working, there’s no water. It’s uninhabitable. He can’t dwell there.
However now this man mainly went to the press. The owner went to the press saying that he was evicting Mickey.
So what occurs now?
To be trustworthy, Mickey doesn’t have a checking account. He doesn’t carry cash. He despatched me a WhatsApp message: “Kim, I’m without end grateful for all of your assist. I might by no means be capable to do that on their lonesome. I at all times love you for this. Thanks, Mick.” So I’m doing what I can. After which he places up a video that he doesn’t need assist. I imply, if he desires to ship all the cash again, ship it again. I don’t care. The cash was for Mickey.
He’s calling me for cash. He’s calling associates for cash. A GoFund is about up for him, and now he’s rejecting it? “OK, Mick, no drawback.” However no one right here has achieved something flawed. It was achieved with a great intention, with a great coronary heart. My assistant is 21 years previous. Proper now, I’m fronting the cash for Mickey to get him out of this emergency state of affairs.
You’re going to stay his supervisor for performing gigs?
In fact. I’m not going wherever. I’m not quitting, and he’s not firing me. And no, he’s not mad at me. He’s upset about this case. However but two days in the past, he was packing by himself, and he’s like, “Are you able to please get me assist? I need assistance. I’m packing on my own.” Mickey’s 73 years previous. So in fact I known as my assistant and he and his buddy went over on Sunday and spent the whole day with Mickey packing up his belongings, getting him to the lodge, getting provides for the canine, getting canine cages for the canine. Cleansing him up, getting him to the lodge. We’ve gone into motion mode.
It’s all a really unhappy state of affairs.
We’re going to determine easy methods to ship the cash again [to your fans], Mickey. However determine additionally the way you’re going to pay your incidentals on the lodge. I known as yesterday. They have been already at $400. He’s been there a day.
It’s nice that so many individuals care as a result of, truthfully, the man spends Christmas alone. He spends his birthdays alone. Apart from his assistant and his supervisor, he’s bought no one in his life. He ought to in all probability take this assist, as a result of until he goes again to work, I can solely finance him for therefore lengthy. I’m not a Getty. I’m a working girl.
What occurred to his cash?
Mickey’s by no means been one which manages his cash properly. He doesn’t actually know the phrase moderation. So he both has so much or has nothing. He lives examine to examine. And he’s additionally been very beneficiant with folks. He purchased his ex-girlfriend, who had most cancers, an residence. Didn’t purchase himself an residence. He’s given loads of his cash away to folks, to associates. He’s loaned folks cash.
Doesn’t have that upbringing or that training to handle cash. So loads of it was spent. Quite a lot of it actually was given away. He has very pleased ex-girlfriends. He’s been very beneficiant with folks, and he simply didn’t handle his cash properly. And he hasn’t actually made that a lot cash within the final couple of years, as a result of he simply doesn’t need to compromise.
He doesn’t deal with any of his personal cash. He doesn’t have a checking account. He doesn’t have a bank card. He’s bought his accountant who’s desperately attempting to maintain up along with his money owed. He had 4 storage sheds that have been costing him over $3,000 a month. So we’re attempting to get Mickey to dwell inside his means and likewise attempt to dwell in a world of actuality – that is what you get each month out of your social safety. That is what you get whenever you make a film. And simply to attempt to have a actuality examine.
Have you ever heard from him because the GoFundMe launched?
Yesterday we spoke a few occasions. “Everybody’s calling me from everywhere in the world and likewise asking me if I would like cash. I don’t know what to do.” And I used to be like, “It’s OK. Allow them to assist.”
What about this factor he’s saying within the video, the place he’s like, “I do not know who began this?”
That’s not true. However I perceive that he has to say that. We’re all right here to assist Mickey and get him again on his ft, get him again to work, get him again making motion pictures and telling tales and creating characters and being the Mickey Rourke that all of us have recognized and love. That’s my aim. If Mickey doesn’t need this assist from people who need to help him and his followers, then that cash might be returned.