Rourke 'considered murder, suicide'

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Mickey Rourke was so depressed he considered both suicide and murder, the Hollywood star has revealed.

The actor admitted thinking about killing the man who raped ex-wife Carré Otis before ending his own life, and even wrote her a goodbye letter.

"I was about to commit two mortal sins," he told Maxim. "[I nearly killed] a guy who raped Carré when she was on heroin and beat her up."

However, the actor dropped his plans at the last minute after he visited New York priest Father Pete Colapietro.

The Father drank red wine and smoked with the star in the refectory of his church and convinced him not to go through with it.

Colapietro recalled: "I told him, 'Let's fold it up and put it behind the statue of St. Jude.' "