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After Mickey Rourke made a homophobic remark toward JoJo Siwa connected Celebrity Big Brother UK, Bella Thorne came to her defense, alleging Rourke bruised her pelvic bony portion filming a 2020 movie.
By Olivia Evans Apr 11, 2025 7:50 PM | Updated 5 minutes ago
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Bella Thorne is stepping up for JoJo Siwa.
Days aft Mickey Rourke made a homophobic remark directed astatine the Dance Moms prima portion filming Celebrity Big Brother UK, the Shake It Up alum shared her ain antagonistic acquisition moving with Rourke.
“This f--king dude,” Thorne wrote connected her Instagram Story April 10 successful effect to Rouke’s caller statements. “GROSS.”
The 27-year-old went connected to item her ain acquisition moving with Rourke successful 2020 connected the movie Girl.
“I had to enactment with this antheral successful a country with my hands zip tied astir my back,” Thorne recalled. “He’s expected to instrumentality a metallic grinder to my genu headdress and alternatively helium utilized it connected my genitals thru [sic] my jeans. Hitting them implicit and implicit again.”
In the country Thorne is referencing from the 2020 fearfulness film, Rourke raises a metallic grinder to an country overmuch higher than her kneecaps.
“I had bruises each implicit my pelvic bone,” she recalled. “Working with Mickey was 1 of the each clip worst experiences of my beingness moving arsenic an actress.”
Later, Thorne noted that she had “so many” antagonistic memories from shooting with Rourke successful a consequent station connected X.
“I conjecture helium thought it was comic to humiliate maine successful beforehand of the full crew,” Thorne recalled, noting she adjacent astatine 1 constituent had to “beg,” the histrion to decorativeness the shoot, adding, “Everyone’s enactment would’ve conscionable been mislaid and wholly for nothing. I didn’t wanna bash it. I was uncomfortable, but I did what I was asked to bash and what was champion for the movie.”
As she enactment it, “Mickey should’ve ne'er enactment anybody successful that movie successful immoderate of those positions that helium did.”
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E! News has reached retired to reps for Rourke arsenic good as Girl’s accumulation institution Screen Media Films but has not yet heard back.
Thorne’s comments travel just days aft clips of Siwa being berated by Rourke connected the acceptable of Celebrity Big Brother went viral.
“If I enactment longer than 4 days you won’t beryllium cheery anymore,” Rourke said to Siwa—who precocious went nationalist with spouse Kath Ebbs—in a clip shared connected X, to which the nonrecreational dancer replied, “I tin warrant I volition inactive beryllium cheery and I volition inactive beryllium successful a precise blessed relationship.”
Then, Rourke replied to Siwa, “I’ll necktie you up.”
Later, aft learning the rules of Celebrity Big Brother UK, Rourke said, “I’m gonna ballot the lesbian out.”
Siwa, remaining composed, replied, “That’s homophobic."
And erstwhile Rourke besides referred to Siwa arsenic a homophobic slur, she told different castmate, Chris Hughes, “It’s brainsick to maine that that inactive exists.”
The Celebrity Big Brother UK producers gave Rourke a informing pursuing the enactment and told him helium would beryllium removed from the bid if helium exhibited “further connection oregon behaviour of this nature.”
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