Armie Hammer has addressed the leaked textual content dialog which noticed him say he was ‘100% cannibal’.
In 2021, Armie Hammer was met with accusations of sexual assault, rape and being a cannibal – all accusations of which he denied.
After a two-year investigation, Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s workplace later revealed it wouldn’t be charging the actor over the allegations of sexual assault attributable to ‘inadequate proof’.
Throughout the accusations towards Hammer, in January 2021, a textual content dialog involving the actor was publicly leaked seeing Hammer seemingly say he’s ‘100 percent a cannibal’.
The textual content continued: “F**okay, that is scary to confess. I’ve by no means admitted that earlier than. I’ve minimize the guts out of a dwelling animal earlier than and eaten it whereas nonetheless heat.”
And in an interview with Louis Theroux for his podcast – aptly titled The Louis Theroux Podcast – Hammer delved into the messages additional.
The actor mirrored: “I believe the, most essential context to provide these sorts of issues is they’re one aspect of a dialog. As you may discover, of all the textual content messages that had been launched, the one that launched them, their aspect was minimize out of all the dialog.
Armie Hammer stated the texts had been ‘digitally altered’ (Chelsea Lauren/Selection/Penske Media by way of Getty Photographs)
“It makes it appear to be I used to be simply rambling to myself. I imply, in the event you look, there’s actually no response in any of the excerpts.”
Hammer argued ‘digitally altered proof is straight away inadmissible as a result of you haven’t any context’ and the screenshots ‘might have been a really humorous dialog between two individuals who had been joking and pushing one another and egging one another on’.
“In the way in which that typically you see comedians pushing the boundary additional and additional once they’re having a dialog,” he added, earlier than resolving, “I am not going to argue the messages.”
One half of the dialog or not, the query remained with Theroux urgent: “Are you a cannibal?”
Hammer responded: “You recognize what it’s important to do to truly be a cannibal? You need to truly eat human flesh. So no.”
Hammer says he is not a cannibal ( Terence Patrick/CBS by way of Getty Photographs)
The actor argued the textual content dialog is an instance of when ‘typically’ you could be courting an individual and ‘you guys are having sex and you’re a little bit of a provocateur and you’re exacerbated by alcohol or drugs or something like that like It is enjoyable to ruffle feathers and it is enjoyable to push the envelope little by little’.
He argued he by no means had ‘any intention of reducing something off of anybody or consuming something off of anybody’ and ‘there was by no means actually something [he] needed’ however that it was merely ‘enjoyable to joke about’ when he was ‘stoned or drunk’.
“That is the place context is available in. You make jokes, I am positive, with your pals that if I took your telephone, and made them public, and eliminated your good friend’s half of the jokes, you’ll in all probability be in sizzling water,” he continued.
Hammer resolved: “And that is why, for this reason I say to everyone who needs to have an opinion on what they’ve seen or what they’ve examine me is like, okay, you possibly can say no matter you need.
“You may decide me as a lot as you need from any public platform that you really want. Give me your telephone for 45 minutes earlier than you do it. And virtually everybody goes, Ooh.”
Final yr, Hammer informed Painful Classes that he was ready to have a look at the cannibal accusations ‘with a way of distance’ and realise how ‘hilarious’ it was.
He additionally revealed how ‘grateful’ he was for what he had occurred as previous to the accusations, he ‘did not really feel good’.
The Louis Theroux Podcast is accessible on Spotify now.