Mickey Rourke is talking out for the primary time after he was pressured to go away his home.
Earlier this week, the 73-year-old Oscar-nominated actor was ordered to vacate his Los Angeles after a decide dominated in favor of his landlord, Eric Goldie.
In a brand new assertion, Mickey addressed his determination to withhold almost $60,000 in lease.
Maintain studying to search out out extra…“The rationale I finished paying lease was as a result of the residing circumstances in the home had change into unacceptable,” Mickey instructed AND! Information on Wednesday (March 11). “For months there have been critical issues that repeatedly went unaddressed regardless of my efforts to have them mounted.”
The boxer turned actor stated that there have been “ongoing rodent points” that had been “by no means absolutely resolved” and that he was coping with frequent points with the toilet and plumbing. Whereas he claimed that he made “repeated requests for repairs,” Mickey alleged that the problems weren’t mounted and “fundamental upkeep was by no means correctly dealt with.”
“Withholding lease was not a choice I made frivolously,” Mickey added. “I merely couldn’t proceed paying for a home that was in such poor situation after so many makes an attempt to have these points corrected.”
In keeping with the court docket paperwork, the judgment was filed by default in favor of the owner, giving him “possession solely” of the L.A. property, canceling the rental settlement and forfeiting the lease, though it made no point out of the past-due lease Mickey nonetheless owed or his claims concerning the situation of the house.
After it was first revealed in December 2025 that Mickey was going through evictiona GoFundMe was arrange, which had raised greater than $100,000 to assist pay his lease. Mickey later denied any accountability for the fundraiserwhich he described as “embarrassing.”