Mickey Rourke labels Amber Heard ‘a gold-digger’ and ‘feels bad’ for Johnny Depp-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Hollywood legend Mickey Rourke has branded Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard ‘a gold-digger’, in an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

The American actor and former boxer appeared on Morgan’s TalkTV show, which aired on Tuesday night, where he discussed cancel culture, and the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The 57-year-old also confessed knowing Pirates of the Caribbean star Depp for ‘many years’, but not ‘intimately’, stating that he had been in a similar ‘situation’.

Rourke told Morgan: ‘Well, you know, I know Johnny for many years, but I don’t really know him intimately. 

‘All I could say is I was in a situation one time where I got blamed for something that I didn’t do. It cost me movie jobs for several years and it caused a bad reputation.

‘And finally, the truth came out but the truth came out after I lost movies and I lost jobs and and so I felt bad for somebody that is trying to get chopped down by some gold digger, you know.’

Mickey slammed Amber as a ‘gold digger’ (Picture: Talk TV)

Morgan probed: ‘You think that’s what she was?’ 

‘Abso- f***ing-lutely. Absolutely,’ Rourke replied. 

Last month, Heard was found by a unanimous seven-person jury to have defamed Depp in a Washington Post article (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

Last month, Heard was found by a unanimous seven-person jury in Fairfax, Virginia, to have defamed Depp in a Washington Post article in which she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse.

While Depp, 59, wasn’t named in the article, his lawyers argued the piece was defamatory against the actor and the court awarded him $15million (£12m) in compensatory and punitive damages.

Heard won one count of her $100m (£83m) countersuit, and was given damages of $2m (£1.6m), meaning she has to pay the 59-year-old $8m (£6.6m).

Heard’s attorneys requested a mistrial – but Depp’s lawyers have hit back. (Credits: AP)

Heard’s attorneys requested a mistrial – but Depp’s lawyers have hit back.

Elsewhere during the Uncensored interview, Rourke slammed Top Gun star Tom Cruise as ‘irrelevant’.

Sharing his thoughts on Top Gun: Maverick star Cruise making the action sequel, he said: ‘I got no respect for that… I don’t care about money and power. I care about, when I watch Al Pacino working, Chris Walken and De Niro’s early work and Richard Harris’s work and Ray Winstone’s work.

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‘That’s the kind of actor I want to be like… Brando back in the day. The kind of guys who tried to stretch as actors’.

Asked by Morgan whether he thought Cruise was a ‘good actor,’ Rourke replied: ‘I think he’s irrelevant in my world.’

Piers Morgan Uncensored airs weeknights at 8pm on TalkTV.

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