Mickey Rourke finally got his career back on track with his movie ‘The Wrestler’, where he was nominated for an Oscar for best actor at the Academy Awards last weekend. The film was billed as a return to form for Rourke, who had been absent from the movie world for the best part of a decade. The reason for his absence, and descent into drink, was his divorce from wife Carre Otis

Rourke divorced his wife in 1998, after a turbulent 6-year marriage where he was at one point arrested for abusing his wife.

Rourke says it took him until now to get over his divorce.

I still love her. I love her in a different way but I waited for her for eight years (after the divorce) for her to come back. I’ve moved on now. It’s the first time I’ve been able to say that and mean it.

Clive Bellmore