Armie Hammer has doubled down on his denial of allegations that he is a “cannibal” or has sexually abused multiple women, but confessed to being a “dick” to previous romantic partners.
On a recent episode of “The Louis Theroux Podcast,” host Theroux cut straight to the chase by asking Hammer: “Are you a cannibal?”
The actor replied, “You know what you have to do to actually be a cannibal? You have to actually eat human flesh. So no.”
In 2021, numerous women accused Hammer, 38, of abuse — including one who said he’d violently raped her — and describing cannibalistic fantasies to them. The “Sorry To Bother You” star has consistently denied all the claims, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office declined to pursue sexual assault charges against Hammer in 2023, as it determined there wasn’t sufficient evidence to charge him. But his career consequently took a hit.
While discussing the messages he sent women detailing his cannibalistic fantasies, Hammer insisted to Theroux that the texts only show “one side of the conversation.”
“Sometimes 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 … it’s fun to ruffle feathers,” Hammer said during the Feb. 11 episode.
The “Rebecca” actor continued, “And it’s fun to push the envelope little by little. Did I ever have any intention of cutting anything off of anyone or eating anything off of anyone? No. That was never really anything that I wanted.”
“Was it fun to joke about if I was stoned or drunk or, like, laughing as I was typing these messages? Sure,” Hammer added.
Hammer admitted to being “selfish” and having “used people to make me feel better,” comparing them to drugs.
“People were sort of like my bags of dope with skin on them,” he told Theroux. ”’You 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 go, ‘Thanks so much, that was great,’ and then I’m gonna move on.’”
The “Call Me by Your Name” actor added, “I left a lot of people in that wake very angry at me for my behavior — which, by the way, was asshole behavior; there’s no way around that.”
“Does it make me a dick? Absolutely. I have no problem admitting that. I was a dick. That’s not illegal,” he said.
Elsewhere in the episode, Hammer confessed that he once took a bite of a living animal’s heart as a hunting “tradition,” but said it was “not for the purpose of any cannibalism or any sexual gratification.”
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“It’s sort of like an almost overly-charged male rite of passage when you go hunting for the first time,” Hammer explained. “Everyone that I know who went hunting for their first time had to do something similar.”
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