Armie Hammer addresses cannibalism accusations: âItâs fun to ruffle feathersâ
The actor claimed the controversy was the â??best thingâ?? to ever happen to him
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Armie Hammer has denied allegations heâs a cannibal and claimed the messages sent to his former partner detailing otherwise were taken out of context.
The Call Me by Your Name star, 37, first became the centre of a social media scandal in 2021 after messages allegedly sent from him detailed graphic sexual desires and cannibalistic fetishes.
Hammer said that the controversy was âthe greatest thing that ever happened to himâ and argued the messages where he admitted to being â100 percent a cannibalâ were a joke.
Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Hammer said: âAs you'll notice, of all of the text messages that were released, the person who released them, their side was cut out of the entire conversation.â
He continued: âThat could have been a very funny conversation between two people who were joking and pushing each other and egging each other on.â
When asked by Theroux whether he was in fact a cannibal, Hammer responded: âYou know what you have to do to actually be a cannibal? You have to actually eat human flesh. So no.â
The actor continued: âSometimes when you're involved with a person and you're dating and you guys are having sex and you are a bit of a provocateur and you are exacerbated by alcohol or drugs or anything like that like It's fun to ruffle feathers and it's fun to push the envelope little by little.â
Armie Hammer has denied claims heâs a cannibal (Getty )One message allegedly sent by Hammer to a former girlfriend reads: â I will own you. Thatâs my soul. My brain. My spirit. My body. Would you come and be my property till you die? If I wanted to cut off one of your toes and keep it with me in my pocket so I always had a piece of you in my possession?â
Hammer claimed he never had âany intention of cutting anything off of anyone or eating anything off of anyoneâ.
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Try for freeâThere was never really anything that I wanted,â he claimed. âWas it fun to joke about if I was stoned or drunk or like laughing as I was typing these messages? Sure. That's where context comes in.â
In the messages allegedly sent by Hammer to his former partner, the actor also wrote that he had cut out the heart of an animal and eaten it while it was still warm.
When asked about the claim by Theroux, Hammer said thereâs a hunting ritual where âyouâve got all your buddies around you, theyâre goading you on, sort of like an overly charged male rite of passageâ to eat the heart.
The actor has previously admitted to scraping his initial into ex-girlfriendâs skin with a knife (Piers Morgan Uncensored )âEveryone that I know who went hunting for their first time had to do something similar,â he explained, denying that he had ever performed the ritual âfor the purpose of cannibalism or any sexual gratificationâ.
Hammer was accused of rape and abuse by various women, but has consistently denied any criminal wrongdoing and was not charged sexual assault after an investigation.
Reflecting on his past behaviour towards women, the actor said: âI'm very quick to admit that I was selfish, and inconsiderate, and an asshole, and a cad, and I used people to make me feel better.
âPeople were sort of like my bags of dope with skin on them,â he added.
âYou make me feel amazing, so I'm gonna throw everything into this and we're gonna have this whirlwind romance and I'm gonna whisk you up and we're gonna go on trips and we're gonna do all this and then I'm gonna bring you home and I'm gonna go, thanks so much that was great, and then I'm gonna move on.â
Hammer maintained that he has never done anything illegal but acted like a âd***â towards women ( Getty Images for Palm Springs In )He reflected: âDoes it make me a d***? Absolutely. I have no problem admitting that. I was a d***. That's not illegal. You know?â
Hammer, who revealed heâs currently still single, said the controversy âkilled off all the egoâ and forced him to spend three years âreally having to examine myself and âlearning to love myselfâ.
âNow, with a sense of distance and perspective from it, it's the greatest thing that ever happened to me,â he claimed.
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