Watch emotional moment Mickey Rourke reveals reasons he’s been acting strangely after daytime snooze in CBB house
CELEBRITY Big Brother star Mickey Rourke has apologised to his housemates for his “strange” behaviour while on the show.
The Hollywood actor, 72, made the confession after dozing off on a sofa with a blanket over his head in the middle of the day.
Mickey did not emerge when the housemates were told to empty the contents of their suitcases and return them to Big Brother.
Instead, he spoke from underneath his blanket and asked if they could do it for him.
But at lunchtime, the Oscar nominated actor emerged in the kitchen and told his housemates why he has been sleeping so much in the daytime.
He admitted he suffers from insomnia and said he cannot sleep at night due to “fear” sparked from an abusive childhood.
“I have insomnia. I can stay awake from anywhere to one to four days,” Mickey said.
Jack P. Shepherd replied: “This is you with insomnia? All you’ve done is sleep.”
However, Mickey told his housemates he would “pay millions of dollars” to be able to sleep properly at night.
JoJo Siwa asked: “What is it in you that makes you not able to sleep?”
Mickey hesitated, before replying: “Fear.”
He continued: “My childhood… The fear of not being able to fix things before I go.
“When I was 14, after all the abuse I went through, I put my finger on the hard button because I didn’t want to live in shame.
“I didn’t want to be a victim anymore.”
Mickey’s housemate Danny Beard offered to give him a hug.
“Really, I’m sorry to be…,” Mickey continued. “I haven’t been around people in six years. I’ve been self-isolated.
“Ever since I’ve been 30, I’ve had a girlfriend every four years. I chose all wrong.”
Mickey – who won a Bafta for his role in the 2008 film The Wrestler – has been paid a six figure sum to take part in this year’s Celeb Big Brother.
However, he has already raised plenty of eyebrows just days in.
Mickey has been formally warned by show bosses for making a ‘homophobic slur’ towards 21-year-old housemate JoJo Siwa in Wednesday’s show.
He also horrified viewers and housemates after ‘weight-shaming’ housemate Donna Preston as she relaxed with an LED mask in the bedroom.
And Mickey was also reprimanded for tampering with the cameras and removing his mic.