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Armie Hammer has admitted that he traced his initials into ex-girlfriend Paige Lorenze’s groin with the tip of a knife throughout their turbulent four-month relationship.
Nonetheless, the Name Me by Your Title star, 37, claimed that he didn’t “model” her, as she had beforehand alleged, and stated “there wasn’t even blood”.
Lorenze first accused him of “marking and branding” her in 2021, stating he had carved his first preliminary into her groin with a knife earlier than licking blood from the wound.
Talking to Piers Morgan in a brand new interview, Hammer, who has been the topic of quite a few rumours and allegations over the previous three years, stated of the incident: “I wouldn’t say model, no.
“There was a situation that we talked about beforehand, that we had mentioned the place, , I’d principally take a little bit, tiny level and simply sort of hint the letter ‘A’ – similar to the tip of a small knife.”
He added: “I imply, there wasn’t even blood within the scenario. It was extra like a scrape… It’s alongside the traces of {couples} getting their very own initials tattooed on one another.”
When Morgan replied that utilizing a knife was “a bit totally different to a tattoo”, Hammer replied that it “was much less everlasting. I assure it was such a small factor.”
The Social Community actor responded to Morgan’s admission that he was “shocked”: “Sure, I feel to some it in all probability sounds actually unusual.
“To some, it in all probability feels like a really romantic gesture.”
Hammer, 37, first grew to become the centre of a social media scandal in 2021 after messages allegedly despatched from him detailed graphic sexual wishes and cannibalistic fetishes.
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He was subsequently accused of rape and abuse by numerous ladies, however has constantly denied any felony wrongdoing. His attourney has repeatedly said that every one of his relationships with ladies have been consensual.
Final month, Hammer lastly addressed allegations of a cannibalism fetish he’s confronted over the previous three years, saying he’s in the end “grateful” for the expertise – regardless of the actual fact it derailing his Hollywood profession.
Throughout an look on podcast Painful Classes, Hammer stated: “I’m really now at a spot the place I’m actually grateful for it as a result of, the place I used to be in my life earlier than all of that stuff occurred to me, I didn’t really feel good.
“I by no means felt glad. I by no means had sufficient. I by no means was in a spot the place I used to be pleased with myself, the place I had vanity.”
He described the scandal as “nearly like a neutron bomb [that] went off in my life.
“It killed me, it killed my ego, it killed all of the individuals round me that I believed have been my buddies that weren’t – all of these individuals, in a flash, went away.
“However the buildings have been nonetheless standing. I’m nonetheless right here, I nonetheless have my well being, and I’m actually grateful for that.”
