Gorgeous model-turned-actress, Carre Otis, has spoken of the
torment she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband, film star
Mickey Rourke.
The former alcoholic and drug addict was left “battered,
miserable and lacking in identity” after her turbulent 3-year
marriage to the former bad boy of Hollywood, and described him as
an absolute 'ogre'.
Thirty-two-year-old Otis claims that Rourke could sometimes be an
amazing, talented little boy', but would plunge into “periods of
being terribly violent.”
The pair, who met on the set of 80s blockbuster Wild Orchid, married in 1992, despite their dangerously rocky relationship.
They proceeded to have matching tattoos done on their upper arms,
but it was shortly after this that Rourke was seen punching and
kicking Otis at a party.
She says, "worse than the beatings were his infidelities.
"My wardrobe was stolen by girls who would come to the house and
I would think, “what's wrong with me, why won't he sleep with
me?'”
It got so bad at one point that the actress actually contemplated suicide.
The gorgeous brunette thought of killing herself,
fearing that if she didn't, Rourke would kill her instead.
She reveals, "I was going to kill myself. I was so messed up on
drugs and drink that I went absolutely insane."
The former face of Revlon now lives with a hairdresser in Malibu and has just completed a filming in the Philippines, her previous addictions apparently behind her. She last saw Rourke seven months ago.
She says, "I know he's working really hard which is great, but
I'm not really sure how he is."
She adds, "I still struggle and have slipped up a couple of
times.
"I can't drink, cause once I start I just don't stop” –Wenn.
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