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Armie Hammer is about to deal with allegations he’s a cannibal in a brand new interview with Piers Morgan.
The Name Me by Your Identify star, 37, first grew to become the centre of a social media scandal in 2021 after messages allegedly despatched from him detailed graphic sexual needs and cannibalistic fetishes.
Hammer was subsequently accused of rape and abuse by numerous girls, however has constantly denied any felony wrongdoing and was not charged sexual assault after an investigation. His legal professional has repeatedly acknowledged that every one of his relationships with girls have been consensual.
In a brand new interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Hammer is requested bluntly by Morgan whether or not he has ever eaten human flesh and quizzed in regards to the messages that got here to mild in 2021.
Teaser footage for the episode sees Morgan ask the Rebecca actor, “are you a cannibal?” to which the Hammer asks the presenter: “You realize what it’s important to do to be a cannibal?”
Morgan then asks Hammer whether or not he’s ever eaten any human flesh, with the actor declaring it’s “not a query I believed I’d must reply”.
One message allegedly despatched by Hammer to a former girlfriend reads: “You simply dwell to obey and be my slave. I’ll personal you. That’s my soul. My mind. My spirit. My physique. Would you come and be my property until you die? If I needed to chop off one among your toes and maintain it with me in my pocket so I all the time had a bit of you in my possession?”
Addressing the message, Hammer tells Morgan: “This was a really intense [affair]… very sexually-charged, between two individuals … Totally different individuals have completely different sexual fantasies.”
He added: “However I don’t suppose that’s any completely different than when somebody seems to be at a child and goes, ‘Oh my God, have a look at these cute little fats legs, I simply need to eat you up.’”
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Morgan additionally asks Hammer about one other message he allegedly despatched the place he informed his companion he felt like a god standing over her with a knife.
Requested if the quotes are true, Hammer replied: “I don’t keep in mind saying these issues.”
Of the broader allegations of abuse, he claimed: “None of these individuals have been damage or upset as a result of I pushed any sexual boundaries.”
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 happy. I by no means had sufficient. I by no means was in a spot the place I used to be proud of myself, the place I had shallowness.”
He described the scandal as “virtually 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 mates 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.”
Hammer’s Piers Morgan Uncensored episode will go dwell on YouTube at 6pm on Friday (19 July).
