Mickey Rourke has slammed the "humiliating and embarrassing" GoFundMe campaign which has been set up to help him pay his rent

In a video posted on his Instagram page, he explained: "Something's come up that I'm really frustrated, confused [about] and I don't understand. Somebody set up some kind of foundation or fund for me to donate money like charity and that's not me. Okay.

"I'd rather, if I needed money, I wouldn't ask for no f****** charity. I'd rather stick a gun up my a** and pull the trigger.

"So whoever did this, I don't know ... why they did it. I don't understand it. I wouldn't know what a GoFundMe foundation is in a million years. My life is very simple, I don't go to outside sources like that and yeah it is embarrassing but I'm sure I'll get over it like everything else."

Mickey went on to admit he has suffered financial problems in recent years - putting his troubles down to the lack of acting work during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Hollywood strikes - and he revealed he had borrowed money from a friend to help him through.

He said: "Listen, I've done a really terrible job in managing my career. I wasn't diplomatic. I had to go to over 20 years of therapy to get over the damage that was done to me years ago. I worked very hard to work through that. And I'm not that person anymore ... I'm not that wild man that I was ... but you pay the price for that ..."

However, The Wrestler star is adamant the GoFundMe page called Support Mickey to Prevent Eviction is not authorised.

He added: "This thing is very embarrassing and if you've given money ... don't give any money and if you gave money, get it back. Whether you gave cash or a cheque or whoever you sent it to and I'm going to talk to my lawyer ... and get to the bottom of this.

"There's only one person I can think of that would do such a thing, and I hope that it's not the person I'm thinking about. It's humiliating.

If I needed money and I did borrow money from a really great friend of mine eventually I'll say who it was and he got me out of a jam - you know COVID and the writers' strike killed my money ... "

Mickey went on to explain he has been going through troubles with his rental home in Los Angeles but he's adamant he stopped paying rent because the landlords didn't fix problems with the house and the case is due to be fought out in court.

He said: " I was in a really bad situation with the place I was renting. Everything was good for five or six years and then two scumbags from New York bought the house and they wouldn't fix anything so I said: 'I'm not paying rent because there's mice, there's rats, the floor is rotten, one bath tub there's no water, in two different sinks there was no water'.

"And this [GoFundMe] has all come at the same time. I don't know if those guys, those scumbags are behind it ... we are going to go to court but I would never ask strangers or fans or anybody for a nickel. I mean that's not my style ... "

Mickey concluded by saying: "It's humiliating and it's really f****** embarrassing ... They said it's up to $100,000 and I wouldn' take a f****** nickel from charity, from anybody.

"So we'll get to the bottom of this and like all storms this way pass and I'll go back to work and things will go back to whatever normal is. "