Fish and slip

An American actress has belatedly complained about an actor who allegedly injured her during a shoot of a past movie.

Disney Channel alum Bella Thorne on X last 11 April accused Mickey Rourke, 72, of bruising her pelvic bone in a scene where she was on her knees with her hands zip-tied behind her back.

“He was supposed to take a metal grinder to my knee cap but instead he used it on my genitals through my jeans,” the 27-year-old actress said in her post on X, the New York Post (NYP) reported.

“Hitting them over and over again. I had bruises on my pelvic bone. Working with Mickey was one of the all-time worst experiences of my life as an actress,” Thorne added, according to NYP.

Rourke’s publicist said the actor denied the accusation and any intentional misconduct.

But Thorne’s pelvic bruises were nothing compared to the injury suffered by a former salsa dancer and retired occupational safety trainer from the Upper West Side of New York City.

The woman who only gave her surname, Castillo, recalled walking on the sidewalk outside a gourmet grocery store when she slipped and fell hard. The tumble on West 75th Street and Broadway would change Castillo’s life, NYP reports.

Castillo, then 53, dislocated her knee and ruptured three ligaments in the 2014 accident that had since hindered her running, salsa dancing and amateur bodybuilding hobbies, according to NYP.

She underwent a dozen surgeries over a decade but never regained full mobility and felt daily pain.

“Of all the things that could happen to me, I slip on slimy, clear fish guts,” Castillo told NYP on 11 April.

Castillo sued Citarella, the grocery store, and a Manhattan Supreme Court jury decided after 10 years that it was responsible for the fish guts on the sidewalk. On 8 April, the court ordered Citarella to pay Castillo $6.45 million for her injuries.