Hollywood is broken. We all know it. But every so often, a story cuts through the cocktail of glamor and garbage with the precision of a box cutter to the ribs. This week, Bella Thorne reminded us how deep the rot runs.
In response to Mickey Rourke’s latest PR implosion—this time a homophobic jab tossed at JoJo Siwa like a wet cigarette—Bella took to social media and ripped the bandage off one of the ugliest experiences of her acting career. She didn’t name the film, but we all know the one. Girl (2020). A horror flick with a title that now feels almost mocking.
“I had to work with this man — in a scene where I’m on my knees with my hands zip tied behind my back,” she wrote. “He’s supposed to take a metal grinder to my knee cap… instead, he used it on my genitals, through my jeans. Hitting them over and over again. I had bruises on my pelvic bone.”
Read that again. Let it sit in your gut like cheap bourbon at 3AM. That’s not a prop accident. That’s not a misfire. That’s violence. And not one person on set hit the brakes.
She didn’t stop there. According to Thorne, Rourke turned the set into a personal power trip, humiliated her with dirt during takes, refused to talk to the director or producers, and forced her to enter his trailer alone just to beg him to show up for scenes. A young actress, alone, face to face with a man twice her age and high on his own fumes, pleading for him to do the bare minimum.
“I guess he thought it was funny to humiliate me,” she said. “I had to convince him to show up. Alone. In his trailer. Shouting demands like a mad king.”
This is the reality behind the soft glow of the spotlight. Not just pain, but a system that rewards it—protects it—because finishing the damn movie is more important than the woman bleeding behind the scenes. Bella said it herself: “I didn’t want to do it, but I did what was best for the movie.”
And what did she get for it? A bruised body and a career footnote. Rourke? He gets to stumble into the next controversy like a washed-up warlord muttering through a press junket. His reps issued the usual limp denial—he wasn’t aware, he didn’t intend harm, he’s open to inquiries, etcetera, etcetera. You’ve read it before. You’ll read it again.
Because in Hollywood, a man can weaponize a metal grinder against a woman’s body, and the machine keeps running. There’s no real accountability—just noise, spin, and the slow, quiet process of burying the story beneath the next trending scandal.
At OnlyBestGirls, we’ll write about beauty, sex, wild nights, and the reckless joy of being alive. But we draw a line in the sand when power turns predatory and pain becomes protocol. Bella didn’t just call out a man—she called out a whole system that saw what happened and shrugged.
This isn’t drama. This is truth. And if you’re not pissed off by it, you’re not paying attention.
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Last modified: April 12, 2025
