The controversies around Mickey Rourke just keep piling up.
Earlier this week, the Sin CIty actor, who is currently starring in the U.K. reality competition show Celebrity Big Brother, was issued a warning from production for homophobic comments he made toward fellow contestant Jojo Siwa.
Rourke told the Dance Moms star, who is openly lesbian, “If I stay longer than four days, you won’t be gay anymore.” He later said, “I’m going to vote the lesbian out real quick,” in reference to Siwa. Rourke later apologized to her for his words.
Now, another woman in Hollywood has spoken out against the actor after his comments went viral.
Shake it Up star Bella Thorne took to Instagram today to share some of her own experiences working with Rourke in the past. The two starred in the 2020 film Girl together.
“This fucking dude. GROSS,” she wrote on her Instagram Story, per Page Six, after reposting an article about the Siwa incident.
Thorne went on to talk about working with him on Girl, sharing with her followers, “In a scene where I’m on my knees with my hands zip tied around my back, he’s supposed to take a metal grinder to my knee cap and instead he used it on my genitals thru my jeans. Hitting them over and over again. I had bruises on my pelvic bone.”
She called her time with Rourke “one of the all time worst experiences of my life working as an actress.”
In another slide of her story, she went through details of other “gross stories” of things she says he made her endure on set, including the time he allegedly sped up and revved his engine in his last scene so he could cover the actress in dirt.
“Idk I guess he thought it was funny to humiliate me in front of the entire crew,” Thorne wrote.
“Having to go in his trailer absolutely alone because he refused to speak to the director or producers,” she wrote. “So I had to convince him to show up and complete his job, as he shouted crazy demands that he wanted from the producers. In fact I had to beg. Alone. In his trailer.”
Rourke is known for his roles in Sin City, Barfly, and Rumble Fish. In 2009, he received an Academy Award nomination for his lead performance in the Darren Aronofsky film The Wrestler.