Mickey Rourke claims Amber Heard is ‘absolutely’ a gold digger

Actor Mickey Rourke has fired up over the Johnny Depp defamation trial, hitting out at Amber Heard’s motives in a vicious spray.

Mickey Rourke thinks Amber Heard was only after Johnny Depp’s money in the exes’ defamation trial.

“[I’ve known] Johnny for many years, but I don’t really know him intimately,” the Sin City star, 69, said on Piers Morgan Uncensored, reports the New York Post.

“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 me a bad reputation.”

Rourke may have been referring to his model ex-wife Carré Otis’ claims that he was abusive and had threatened to kill himself if she did not marry him. They were married from 1991 to 1999.

“Finally, the truth came out, but the truth came out after I lost movies and I lost jobs, and so I felt bad for somebody that is trying to get chopped down by some gold digger,” the Angel Heart star continued, referring to Depp and Heard.

When Morgan asked whether Rourke believes Heard is a gold digger, the actor replied, “Abso-f**king-lutely. Absolutely.”

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Mickey Rourke on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Heard on the stand during her high-profile court showdown against Depp. Picture: Michael Reynolds/Pool/AFP

Depp, 59, filed a $50 million ($A74 million) defamation lawsuit against Heard, 36, in 2019 after she wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post about surviving domestic violence. She countersued him for $100 million ($A148 million) in 2020.

The former couple in 2015. Picture: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP

While Heard did not name Depp in the piece, the Pirates of the Caribbean star alleged that his ex-wife, to whom he was married from 2015 to 2017, fabricated abuse allegations in an attempt to score a large divorce settlement and thus damaged his career.

In June, Depp’s name was cleared when he won the case and was awarded $10 million ($A14.8 million) in compensatory damages and $5 million ($A7.4 million) in punitive damages. Heard had a minor victory in her countersuit, with the jury awarding her $2 million ($A2.9 million) in compensatory damages but $0 in punitive damages.

Heard has since asked the judge to reject the jury’s verdict.

Rourke’s “gold digger” claim was not the only controversial topic he discussed during his interview with Morgan. He also called Tom Cruise “irrelevant” despite the Top Gun star, 60, raking in big bucks at the box office this year for his sequel, Maverick.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.