Armie Hammer is about to handle allegations he’s a cannibal in a brand new interview with Piers Morgan. 

The Name Me by Your Title star, 37, first turned 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 varied girls, however has constantly denied any prison wrongdoing and was not charged sexual assault after an investigation. His lawyer has repeatedly acknowledged that each one of his relationships with girls had 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 you need 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 reside 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 wished to chop off considered one of your toes and hold it with me in my pocket so I all the time had a chunk of you in my possession?”

Addressing the message, Hammer tells Morgan: “This was a really intense [affair]… very sexually-charged, between two individuals … Completely different individuals have totally different sexual fantasies.”

He added: “However I don’t suppose that’s any totally different than when somebody appears at a child and goes, ‘Oh my God, take a look at these cute little fats legs, I simply wish to eat you up.’”

Morgan additionally asks Hammer about one other message he allegedly despatched the place he instructed his associate he felt like a god standing over her with a knife.

Requested if the quotes are true, Hammer replied: “I don’t bear in mind saying these issues.”

Of the broader allegations of abuse, he claimed: “None of these individuals had been harm 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 very fact it derailing his Hollywood profession.

Throughout an look on podcast Painful Classes, Hammer mentioned: “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 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 had been my associates that weren’t – all of these individuals, in a flash, went away.

“However the buildings had 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 reside on YouTube at 6pm on Friday (19 July).