Armie Hammer, who saw his acting career go up in smoke after allegations he harboured cannibalistic fantasies, has revealed he ate part of an animal’s heart on a hunting trip.
Asked during a recent appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast if it was true that he “cut the heart out of the animal and ate it while still warm,” Hammer, 38, said he took a bite as part of a “tradition.”
“You don’t eat the whole heart. One of the traditions is you take a bite out of the heart,” Hammer explained to Theroux. “You’ve got all your buddies around you, they’re goading you on.”
Hammer called it “sort of like an almost overly-charged male rite of passage when you go hunting for the first time.”
“Everyone that I know who went hunting for their first time had to do something similar,” he said. But the Call Me By Your Name star clarified he removed the animal’s heart “not for the purpose of any cannibalism or any sexual gratification,” referencing the fetish scandal that derailed his career in 2021.
His latest comments come after Hammer faced accusations of abuse and sharing alleged cannibalistic fantasies in recent years.
Hammer’s wife Elizabeth Chambers filed for divorce in 2020. Months later, he was accused of rape by Efrosina Angelova, who alleged she was subjected to a four-hour ordeal in 2017.
Another former partner, Courtney Vucekovich, told Page Six that Hammer “likes the idea of skin in his teeth.
“He said to me he wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it,” Vucekovich said.
Hammer’s former girlfriend, Paige Lorenze, also spoke out about their relationship, telling Vanity Fair that she felt “unsafe” during her short-lived romance with the actor.
Police declined to charge The Lone Ranger star and during his interview with Theroux, Hammer once again denied the allegations, saying, “You know what you have to do to actually be a cannibal? You have to actually eat human flesh. So no.”
“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 … it’s fun to ruffle feathers, and it’s fun to push the envelope little by little,” Hammer said. “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.”
Following interviews with Bill Maher and Piers Morgan last summer, Hammer has been making a return to the public eye and has landed some work as an actor.
“I’m turning down jobs. My dance card is getting pretty full,” the actor said during an interview on the Your Mom’s House podcast last month.
“By the way, that first job that I turned down after four years of this s—, it was the best feeling I’ve ever had,” he added.
Hammer has already completed work on Frontier Crucible, a Western co-starring Thomas Jane and William H. Macy, and several other movies in development.
“It’s slow, but generally now the conversation when my name comes up with people in the industry is, ‘Man, that guy got f—ed,’” he told hosts Christina Pazsitzky and Tom Segura. “And that feels really good. It’s really encouraging.”