{"id":374531,"date":"2026-01-17T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374531\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:58:11","slug":"mickey-rourkes-dog-needs-heart-surgery-the-actor-cant-afford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374531\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke’s Dog Needs Heart Surgery the Actor Can’t Afford"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mickey Rourke<\/a>\u2019s beloved pup is facing a life-threatening health crisis … and the cost of essential surgery could be more than the actor can bear.<\/p>\n

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ \u2026 Mickey\u2019s longtime dog, Ivan, is suffering from heart disease and needs an operation — one that doesn\u2019t come cheap.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re told the procedure will cost around $10,000 … and Ivan could potentially require a second surgery costing an additional $6,000 to $8,000.<\/p>\n

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Making matters even more complicated … the actor is in dire straits and doesn’t have the money on hand to pay for the procedure. Mickey had just checked into a hotel with Ivan<\/a> two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

As you know … Mickey emphatically rejected<\/a> a GoFundMe set up to help him stay afloat and avoid eviction — despite it raising more than $100K. A GoFundMe spox tells us donation refunds were issued<\/a> January 14th, and donors will get 100 percent of their contributions back.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re told Mickey is now urgently looking for work to cover his dog\u2019s heart surgery … but as we previously reported, he\u2019s been reluctant to accept<\/a> offers being presented to him by his manager.<\/p>\n

We reached out to Rourke’s rep, Kimberly Hines, who tells us … “I’m very resilient and committed to seeing Mickey make the right choices for his career and for his personal well-being. That said, we are at a moment of truth, and ultimately only Mickey can decide how he wants to play out his next chapter.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke\u2019s beloved pup is facing a life-threatening health crisis … and the cost of essential surgery could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-374531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}