Mickey Rourke has sparked concerns after being photographed out and about in Los Angeles in a disheveled state and without teeth.
It comes months after the actor was kicked out of his L.A. home over his refusal to pay rent, prompting fans to donate funds to him, which he declined.
Mickey Rourke also recently came under the spotlight after apologizing to his ex-wife Carre Otis, admitting that their fallout was “not her fault,” and he was to blame.
Rourke made a worryingly disheveled appearance during a rare outing in L.A. this week.
The iconic ’80s actor and former professional boxer looked unrecognizable during the stroll, as paparazzi photos, obtained by the Daily Mail, revealed a completely bare upper and lower jaw.
For the outing, Rourke was dressed in a stained, grey, zip-up sweatshirt, a pair of faded jeans, and pulled the hood over his head.
He also had a strange stain around his chin that added to his worrisome appearance during the rare outing.
Although he was seen walking a small white dog, the actor looked gloomy, completing his outfit with aviator sunglasses.
See the shocking photos here.
The Actor Was Evicted From His Home
The appearance was a far departure from his usual rugged appearance in Hollywood, which seemed to be from a turbulent year he had endured.
In late 2025, the 73-year-old Oscar nominee was legally evicted from his Los Angeles home over nearly $60,000 in unpaid rent.
He sparked fears he wasn’t doing well financially at the time, but a rep later told the Daily Mail that the reason he “stopped paying rent was because the living conditions in the house had become unacceptable.”
According to the news outlet, fans then donated $100,000 to a GoFundMe set up by an assistant to his manager, Kimberly Hines, but he declined the funds, calling the campaign a “cruel embarrassment.”
Mickey Rourke Opened Up About His Bad Living Conditions
Rourke got candid about his living conditions, revealing that he was facing drawn-out issues with rodents and bad plumbing.
“For months, there were serious problems that repeatedly went unaddressed despite my efforts to have them fixed,” he said in a statement through his team.
The “Sin City” actor went further to explain that “there were ongoing rodent issues that required multiple visits but were never fully resolved, and the bathroom and plumbing frequently did not work.”
“I made repeated requests for repairs, but the problems continued, and basic maintenance was never properly handled,” he continued, adding that refusing to pay rent “was not a decision I made lightly.”
“I simply could not continue paying for a house that was in such poor condition after so many attempts to have these issues corrected,” he concluded.
The Actor Now Has Huge Fees On His Hand Due To The Rent Dispute
In March, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge officially ordered Rourke to vacate the residence after he failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by his landlord, Eric Goldie.
Court documents revealed that Rourke owed a staggering $59,100 in back rent after failing to comply with a strict three-day pay-or-vacate notice.
The court granted Goldie possession of the property and canceled their remaining agreement. He was asked to leave the property on December 18, according to legal complaints filed by Goldie, but in another document filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on December 29, the landlord claimed that Rourke had “failed to comply with the requirements of the order he was given to settle up or move out.”
According to the news outlet, Goldie also asked the court to make the actor cover the legal costs he had incurred in trying to recoup the rent, and for Rourke to forfeit the remainder of the agreement.
Mickey Rourke Apologized To His Ex-wife
Rourke has seemingly been in a self-reflective mode in recent times and even weighed in on his broken marriage with ex-wife Carre Otis.
The couple were married from 1992 to 1998, and starred in films like 1989’s “Wild Orchid” and 1996’s “Exit in Red.”
According to People Magazine, he took to his Instagram account earlier this month to repost another user’s praise of “Wild Orchid” and seemingly pondered on their time together.
“Wrong girl not her fault all my mistake I was a fool for so many yrs not her fault at all I just made a blind, terrible mistake, big regret not of it her fault all my blame,” he wrote, adding a series of butterfly and praying hands emojis.
Otis had previously alleged suffering abuse in her 2011 memoir “Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir.” In a Huffington Post interview about the book at the time, she called their marriage an “abusive relationship.”
She added that they “were both from really dysfunctional backgrounds, and we both had the perfect ground to feed that dysfunction because we didn’t have tools, and I was a kid! I was a young person and obviously greatly influenced by one of America’s greatest actors at that moment.”
