It was triggered by the five-time Crucible champion being reminded that Hearn said his clipped answers and eccentric behaviour in recent media interviews had become "embarrassing".
Trump will start out on his mission to win a first world title on Tuesday and, if he wins that match, he is due to face either of the Glasgow-born Scotsmen in the first round - Anthony McGill or former United Kingdom champion Stephen Maguire.
O'Sullivan then narrowly missed a red to the middle pocket, which ended up costing him a three-frame lead as Wilson won an epic safety battle to clinch the final exchange 69-78 with a tough last black to the corner. "I won't get involved anymore because I am not being bullied".
A snarling Rocket reached the second round of the Betfred World Championship with a 10-7 win over former taxi driver Gary Wilson at the Crucible. But I believe there's only three or four people who have got a good chance of winning it.
Hearn, chairman of the commercial arm of the sport, said: "I take any accusation of "bullying and intimidation" by me or World Snooker very seriously".
"I've had it for five, six, seven years, and I'm just done with it", O'Sullivan added.
Davis, snooker's dominant figure in the 1980s, only retired past year during the World Championship. It's not fair on my fans because I don't want to play with disciplinary hearings all the time.
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Hearn declined to respond to O'Sullivan on Sunday evening. He left his opponent needing a snooker only for Wilson - who enjoyed knocks of 54, 64 and 63 - to claw his way back, force the required penalty points before ending within one frame with a glorious clearance.
"It's not that important".
"Hopefully, they can relax and stop being so precious, but I'm not prepared to put myself in that situation anymore". I could go and do Big Brother, I could go and do I'm A Celebrity. This is something I do for love, but I'm not going to do it and have people trying to intimidate me and bully me.
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He will face either Judd Trump or Rory McLeod in the second round, while Selby will take on Ryan Day or Ziano Guodong.
O'Sullivan sampled his first match as a 17-year-old at the Sheffield venue on April 18, 1993.
Selby was crowned Champion after beating Ding Junhui in the final twelve months ago.
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