His explanation: It was supposed to be a hunting ritual.
The controversial actor Armie Hammer has now revealed: As a kind of ritual, he once took a bite of a raw heart of a killed animal on a hunting trip.
“You have all your buddies around you who spur you”
Armie was a guest as a guest on Tuesday, February 11th of the Podcast “The Louis Theroux Podcast”. In the 73-minute episode, Louis Theroux spoke to the “Call Me by your name” actor about a rumor that the mime once cut out the heart of an animal, while it was still warm, while it was still warm eat. The 38-year-old’s answer: “No, you don’t eat your whole heart. One of the traditions is that you take a bite of your heart. “
Hammer continued in the conversation: “You have all your buddies around you who spur you.” He then tried to explain that it was a kind of “overloaded male initiation rite” that is carried out for the first time the hunt would come.
In the course of this, Armie Hammer also made it clear that this hunting tradition would serve “not the purpose of cannibalism or sexual satisfaction”.
“The Louis Theroux Podcast” with Guest Armie Hammer in the stream:
To the earlier allegations against Armie Hammer
With the negative headlines around Armie Hammer, everything started in 2021 when excerpts from sexually charged text messages between hammer and various women appeared online. At that time, the actor was married to the entertainment journalist Elizabeth Chambers (the couple was divorced in 2023). In the period, his ex-girlfriend Efrosina Angelo also made the accusation public, he is said to have raped her in 2017.
Two other women later also spoke up and claimed that Hammer had emotionally abused them. One of the two women continued to claim that Hammer opposes their counterpart Having expressed the wish to cook and eat her ribs. He himself admitted that he had treated the women emotionally, but the statements repeated in public was a mutual sadomasochistic agreements.
The district prosecutor’s office of Los Angeles Countys 2023 refused to indict the indictment against Hammer.