Armie Hammer’s standing firm that he’s no flesh-eater.
Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, the actor shot down cannibal rumors while claiming the whole scandal was actually “the greatest thing that ever happened to him,” according to The Guardian.
Back in 2021, Hammer got caught up in drama when an ex leaked texts showing his alleged cannibal fantasies. The LAPD spent two years investigating him for sexual misconduct after these claims surfaced.
Talking to Theroux about those texts, Hammer insisted his “100 percent a cannibal” message was just kidding around.
“As 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,” he explained. “That could have been a very funny conversation between two people who were joking and pushing each other and egging each other on.”
When pressed about being a cannibal, Hammer clapped back, “You know what you have to do to actually be a cannibal? You have to actually eat human flesh. So no.”
He added, “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 or anything like that like It’s fun to ruffle feathers and it’s fun to push the envelope little by little.”
The 38-year-old vanished from public life for three years after the scandal broke, making his comeback with The Armie Hammertime Podcast last fall.
Last month, he told Your Mom’s House podcast his career’s making a comeback, saying “The worm is turning, and it takes time.”
