Mickey Rourke: I got hard not by choice but by survival

Mickey Rourke: I got hard not by choice but by survival (Ian West/PA)

Mickey Rourke says he “got hard, not by choice but by survival” as he opened up about his abusive upbringing.

The actor and former boxer said his attitude towards dealing with trauma made him a “scary person to deal with” and he had worried about not being able to “turn the off switch off”.