JoJo Siwa detailed an unheard conversation with Mickey Rourke that took place while they were in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
“What really tipped me over the edge is he then said to me, ‘I knew what I was saying and that’s why I said it. I wanted to offend you. I knew it was going to offend you and that’s why I wanted to do it. I like poking at a bear,’” Siwa, 21, claimed during the Wednesday, April 30, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast. “None of that made it [to air].”
The moment really “shook me up,” Siwa said.
Siwa claimed that this conversation, which also included Love Island UK alum Chris Hughes, occurred after the actor’s initial controversial comment.
“I believe the first [comment] that he said was ‘the lesbian over there.’ You don’t really want to point somebody out as ‘the lesbian,’” Siwa said. “I just was genuinely giving him heads up.”
She said that he “doubled down” on the comment, telling people in the house that he was going to vote for “the lesbian,” referring to Siwa. “He made a joke using the F-slur,” she claimed. (Rourke received an official warning from production and apologized to Siwa.)
Siwa claimed Rourke was “just bizarre” from the beginning and also made a “sexually inappropriate comment” toward her, aside from just his homophobic remark. Fans watched Rourke tell Siwa that if she stayed in the house “longer than four days, you won’t be gay anymore.” She further claimed on “Viall Files” that he also made a statement along the lines of: “I’ll tie you up, or something.”
Following his incident with Siwa, the actor got into a heated disagreement with Hughes.
After four days in the house, Rourke was asked to leave. The show’s production team confirmed his departure in a statement to Us Weekly on April 12.
“Mickey Rourke has agreed to leave the Celebrity Big Brother House this evening following a discussion with Big Brother regarding further use of inappropriate language and instances of unacceptable behavior,” the statement read.
Rourke apologized for his behavior and admitted that he “did wrong” on the show.
“Mickey speaks from his heart and means well,” Rourke’s rep Kimberly Hines said in a statement to Us. “He is old school, direct and honest. I have worked closely with him for nine years and he is 100 percent authentically himself. There will never be another Mickey Rourke. Period.”
