Armie Hammer calls cannibalism allegations 'the greatest thing to ever happen' to him

Armie Hammer has spoken retired astir his highly publicised cannibalism accusations successful a caller interview for The Louis Theroux Podcast, telling listeners that the scandal was the “the top happening that ever happened to me.”

The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name prima was accused of cannibalism successful January 2021, erstwhile screenshots that appeared to amusement Hammer sexting with a pistillate who was not his woman circulated astir the internet.

The texts, which Hammer says are doctored to region context, amusement Armie Hammer’s societal media relationship telling a pistillate that helium plans connected “cutting [her] into pieces and f***ing the pieces” arsenic good arsenic asking: “If I wanted to chopped disconnected 1 of your toes and support it with maine successful my pouch truthful I ever had a portion of you successful my possession?” The texts besides allege that helium said: “I privation you to wound yourself again. Think of maine eating you.”

As portion of his quality connected The Louis Theroux podcast, Hammer confirms that helium had an matter and besides appears to corroborate that helium sent galore of the provocative messages that leaked online.

Theroux raises different 1 of these texts with Hammer connected the podcast, saying: “In January 2021 texts were released from the idiosyncratic you were pursuing the matter with. And these are the ones that went viral and became famous. One was from you saying, ‘I americium 100 percent a cannibal. Fuck, that's scary to admit. I've ne'er admitted that before. I've chopped the bosom retired of a surviving carnal earlier and eaten it portion inactive warm.’ How would you similar to contextualise that?”

Hammer explains that the screenshots lone portrayed “one broadside of the a conversation”. “As you'll notice, of each of the substance messages that were released, the idiosyncratic who released them, their broadside was chopped retired of the full conversation. It makes it look similar I was conscionable rambling to myself. I mean, if you look, there's truly nary effect successful immoderate of the excerpts.”

The disgraced histrion past tells Theroux that the texts are “digitally altered evidence” which would beryllium “immediately inadmissible” successful tribunal due to the fact that of the deficiency of context. “I'm not going to reason the messages,” helium admits.

Louis Theroux past straight asks Armie Hammer if helium is simply a cannibal, to which Hammer responds: “You cognize what you person to bash to really beryllium a cannibal? You person to really devour quality flesh. So no.”

He continues: “Did I ever person immoderate volition of cutting thing disconnected of anyone oregon eating thing disconnected of anyone? No. There was ne'er truly thing that I wanted. Was it amusive to gag astir if I was stoned oregon drunk oregon similar laughing arsenic I was typing these messages? Sure.”

Hammer besides tells Theroux that the carnal bosom communicative is existent and that helium took a wound retired of an carnal bosom portion hunting erstwhile helium was younger. “[...] you don't devour the full heart,” helium says. “You instrumentality a wound retired of the heart, and you've got each your buddies astir you, they're goading you on, it's benignant of similar a, it's benignant of similar a astir overly charged antheral rite of transition erstwhile you spell hunting for your archetypal time.”

The 38-year-old past insists this was “not for the intent of immoderate cannibalism oregon immoderate intersexual gratification.”

He besides claims that his Hollywood vocation is backmost successful afloat swing, telling Theroux: “I conscionable finished a movie that we changeable successful Arizona called Frontier Crucible, and it's maine and Thomas Jane and William H. Macy. Then I'm gonna spell bash different movie successful January, and past I've got different movie successful March. I've got a TV amusement that I was conscionable offered. I've got offers coming successful each week, basically, to the constituent wherever I'm having to crook down jobs.”

Since the reputational downfall, Hammer spent a play selling timeshares successful the Cayman Islands, which helium called “the archetypal table occupation that I've ever had successful my full life.” “I was having the clip of my life. I went to enactment each day, I enjoyed the radical I was moving with, I got to deterioration my small khaki pants and a polo garment and merchantability timeshares. I loved it. Like, there's nary shame successful it for me. I loved it,” helium said.

He besides revealed that the online sleuthing astir the allegations became truthful overwhelming that helium was dragged into a execution probe successful Wonder Valley, California. “The sheriff has to travel retired and say, ‘He is not a suspect, helium wasn’t adjacent present erstwhile it happened, he’s not adjacent a idiosyncratic of interest, delight halt calling my sheriff’s section and telling maine ‘Armie Hammer did it.’”

Reflecting connected the downfall arsenic a whole, Armie Hammer reflected: “It killed disconnected each of the ego. It killed disconnected each of the bulls***. It killed disconnected each of the pretense. And I spent 3 years and alteration truly having to analyse myself and truly having to look astatine myself and truly having to spell ‘woosh’ to each of the outer validation that I was getting. Not lone did it spell away, it turned into planetary hatred [...] Now, with a consciousness of region and position from it, it's the top happening that ever happened to me.”

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