mickey rourke loves his dogs..
“..Mickey Rourke has credited his dogs with helping him get through the bad times in his life.
The 57-year-old actor - who thought his career was over before starring in ‘The Wrestler’, which saw him nominated for the Best Actor Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards -
- says the only people he could rely on were his beloved pooches.
He said: “My dogs really helped me get through the dark times.
I lost everything at the same time - my wife, my career, my house, my credibility -
- and all I had left was the dogs plus just two or three people who stuck with me.
I was living under the mat - being known and then being known for being out of work, for having fallen from grace.
You go and buy a pack of smokes and people say, ‘Hey, didn’t you used to be that actor?’
So it was a very shameful place, and the dogs were my friends.
A lot of people you meet out there turn their backs on you once you’re down .. but the dogs don’t.
The one dog I loved, Loki, died last year, and she is deeply missed .. but with me in spirit.”
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