Bella Thorne accused her colleague American actor Mickey Rourke of bruising his genitals with a metal crusher on the set of a film they shot together during what she described as “one of the worst experiences of all time” in her career.
Friday, in a story on her Instagram account, Thorne alleged that the episode was part of a wider campaign to humiliate him while they collaborated on the 2020 thriller. She wrote: “This fucking guy. Gross” and relayed the account in a copy of a BBC article pointing that the producers of Celebrity Big Brother had reprimanded him Jojo Siwa while they competed in the reality TV show.
A Rourke representative did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Thorne’s allegations.
Thorne’s position told how she and the Oscar candidate shared a scene in which she was kneeling with her hands linked to her back. “He is supposed to take a metal crusher on my knee cap and he used it on my genitals (through) my jeans,” wrote Thorne. “Strike them again and again. I had bruises on my pelvic bone – working with Mickey was one of the worst experiences of my life as an actress. ”
She also shared a screenshot of a post on X in which she alleged that Rourke separated an engine separately and covered it “completely in dirt” for another scene.
“I guess he thought it was funny in front of the whole crew,” said Thorne – the former Disney star, 27, whose credits also include Duff and Amityville: The Awakening – said Rourke, 72.
Thorne then said that she had to take her to “go to her absolutely alone trailer” and tell her about finishing the film “when he shouted crazy demands he wanted” of those who direct the project written and carried out by Chad Faust.
“He refused to speak to the director or the producers – so I had to convince him to introduce himself and finish his work,” continued Thorne. “In fact, I had to go.”
She said it was “uncomfortable”. But she said that she had endured because “the film could not be finished without him (and) everyone’s work would have just been lost and completely for nothing”.
Thorne’s comments on his experience on the set with Rourke on Girl have crowned a week of unflattering titles for the actor whose work on The Wrestler of 2008 has once earned him Golden Globe and Bafta Awards.
He obtained an official warning from the producers of Celebrity Big Brother UK after participating in the show and boasting in Siwa, who is gay, that he would “make it straight”.
Rourke also invoked a word of British slang for a cigarette which is also a homophobic insult in the United States before heading to Siwa and saying: “I am not talking to you.”
The producers of Celebrity Big Brother Uk told Rourke that they would withdraw him from the show if he followed the homophobic language.
