Large Brother sees every little thing — however the viewers don’t.
In an unique interview with The Submit, JoJo Siwa shared particulars about an unaired combat she had with Mickey Rourke as he was being kicked off “Celebrity Big Brother” for making offensive feedback about her sexuality final month.
“There was a lot more that happened than what you saw,” the “Dance Moms” alum, 21, stated. “But again, that’s the world of reality TV editing, and it’s complicated and it’s much more than just you and your story.”
“One thing they didn’t air about Mickey… they actually aired the opposite,” Siwa defined. “So in the diary room, he said, ‘It wasn’t my intention. I didn’t want to do that.’ And then they did not air when he came out of the diary, he said to me — and this is what really upset me — ‘That was my intention. That’s why I did it, because I knew it would piss you off and I wanted to.’”
Siwa stated she “questioned” the skilled boxer, 72, in that second about why he deliberately tried to “hurt” her.
In response, Rourke allegedly accused Siwa of “attacking” him, which prompted “Love Island” star Chris Hughes to defend the “Karma” singer.
“All this got cut out,” Siwa reiterated. “And that was the conversation that really upset me. The comment, I don’t care, right? The comment, we can work through that. But not wanting to have a conversation, that’s what really hurt me.”
“But then again I decided, ‘All right, I’m gonna make it my mission.’ Not to become friends with him, but I’m going to make it my mission to be a friend to him because he needs it,” she stated. “He’s clearly hurt. There’s clearly something wrong. And so we got there.”
Siwa, whose new tune “Bulletproof” comes out Friday, instructed The Submit she thinks the present made the best choice ejecting Rourke.
“I think a lot of people argue that he should have gone earlier,” she acknowledged. “I do agree with the producer’s decision. I genuinely don’t know if the producers chose to evict him or if he said, ‘I’m leaving.’ I don’t know how that went down.”
Siwa continued, “But I think that was the right time because I think sometimes you have to see somebody’s story through. And I think Mickey with me on day one… was that enough to get him evicted? Yes, absolutely. But if he would have, we wouldn’t have gotten to see those other sides and those other flavors. And we also wouldn’t of had as many laughs as we did. Like, he would’ve never gotten pranked as Billy. You know what I mean? There’s so many things that happened and so many good moments that happened with him that I wouldn’t trade for him to have been evicted after that comment.”
“And maybe I stand alone on that island,” Siwa famous, “but I think the journey is the journey for the reason. Yeah, he was hard to manage. But for me, his comments were easier to manage than him brushing his teeth in the kitchen sink. Him double dipping. That was harder for me to manage.”
“But yeah, when he did leave the house, it just felt like a cloud was lifted. It just didn’t feel stressful anymore. It felt really, really fun,” she added.
When “Big Brother” kicked Rourke out of the home, they instructed him his “language and behavior was threatening” and that the present wouldn’t tolerate it.
The “1941” actor stated within the Diary Room that he was “ashamed” of his actions. He additionally apologized to Siwa, who graciously forgave him.
