JoJo Siwa is spilling even more Celebrity Big Brother UK tea, and revealing even more that actor Mickey Rourke said to her before he was kicked out of the Big Brother house.
On the Viall Files podcast, Siwa claimed that Rourke continued to provoke her in conversations that didn't make it to air, after the comments Big Brother viewers did see.
In an early episode of Celebrity Big Brother UK, the 72-year-old Oscar-nominee referred to Siwa as "the lesbian" when talking about who he wanted to vote off, and asked Siwa about her sexuality.
When Siwa said she likes girls and her partner was nonbinary, Rourke replied, "If I stay longer than four days, you won't be gay anymore."
Rourke also made a comment about needing a "fag," and gestured to Siwa, saying, "I'm not talking to you." He later claimed, "I was talking about a cigarette." Less than a week later, Rourke was asked by producers to leave the show.
JoJo Siwa on 'Celebrity Big Brother UK'
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Now, Siwa has revealed unaired conversations she said she had with Rourke.
"What really tipped me over the edge is he then said to me, 'I knew what I was saying and that's why I said it,'" Siwa said on the Vial Files podcast. "'I wanted to offend you. I knew it was going to offend you, and that's why I wanted to do it. I like poking at a bear.'"
Siwa said that Rourke's behavior was "just bizarre" from the beginning, and that his comments "shook me up," per Us Weekly.
"I believe the first [thing] that he said was 'the lesbian over there.' You don't really want to point somebody out as 'the lesbian,'" Siwa added. "I just was genuinely giving him heads up."
Still, Rourke doubled down and was eventually asked to leave the show.
Siwa also had a very chaotic time in the Big Brother house. The 21-year-old updated their pronouns, saying "my pronouns are anything" and later said, "Essentially, you have female, you have male. I've met a lot of females, love them, don't feel like I'm them. Met a lot of males, love them, definitely not them. Met a lot of people in my life that are nonbinary, and these beautiful nonbinary people are who I feel the most like."
Later, on the show, Siwa came out as queer, saying she no longer identifies as a lesbian.
"I think that's the thing, I've always told myself I'm a lesbian, and I think being here, I've realized: 'Oh, I'm not a lesbian, I'm queer.' And I think that's really cool," she said, adding, "I'm switching letters! F**k the 'L,' I'm going to the 'Q'!"
In one final act of chaos, Siwa reportedly broke up with her partner, Kath Ebbs, after Ebbs flew to England for the Big Brother finale.
"I went to the after party with my, I guess now ex, and was dumped at the party. I was told there were 'confused feelings' there, do with that what you will, and that they had realized in the house that I wasn't the person they wanted to spend their foreseeable future with," Ebbs said in a video.
Siwa later said the breakup was "not supposed to happen like that," but when Ebbs asked if they were happy, they replied by saying, "No," and the conversation continued from there.
Watch JoJo Siwa's full interview on The Viall Files below.
