Priest talked Mickey Rourke out of murder-suicide

Mickey Rourke was reportedly once on the verge of ending his life in a grisly murder-suicide before a priest talked him out of his plans. The distraught actor wrote a farewell letter to his then estranged wife, model Carré Otis, before visiting Father Peter Colapietro of Holy Cross Church in New York’s Times Square. The 52-year-old star of Nine and a Half Weeks told Maxim magazine:
“I was about to commit two mortal sins.” Before killing himself he aimed to “kill a guy who raped Carré when she was on heroin and beat her up.”

Father Colapietro recalled at the time:
“He admitted he had f***ed up on his relationship with his wife. He had a letter he’d written to Carré — a note of a conciliatory nature.  “I told him, ‘Lets fold it up and put it behind the statue of St Jude.’”

The two men then headed to the rectory to drink red wine, smoke and talk things over.
Rourke who claims his face needed plastic surgery because of boxing injuries, has also rejuvinated his career with his latest film The Wrestler, which won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, has no children but is comforted now by family of dogs — three Chiuhuahuas, Loki, Bella and Peppino, a pug, Fat Bastard, a Pomeranian, Ruby, and Jaws the Enforcer, a terrier.
He tells the magazine for next months issue that they eat better than he does, with his roommate, chef JP Parlavecchio, cooking minced sirloin, pork chops, chicken breast, tuna and mixed vegetables for them, and once a week they have McDonalds cheeseburgers without the buns or pickles. And Loki the Chiuhuahua travels everywhere with Rourke, who said: “She’s like a giant Xanax, you know?
“I’m not going to get religious on your ass, but I truly believe God created dogs for a cause. They’re the greatest companions a man could ever have. My bed’s never empty!”
After two divorces he says there is still room in his bed for a woman. His bedroom is stocked with sex toys and stripper pole and he added: “I’m waiting for the right girl to come in and I’ll say, ‘You wanna see something?’” Well, good luck with that Mickey.