Armie Hammer got emotional and was in tears during an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan.
The actor sat down with Morgan for a tell-all interview due to premiere at 1 p.m. ET on Friday on the "Piers Morgan Uncensored" YouTube channel. Hammer was exiled from Hollywood following a series of sexual assault allegations.
The Call Me by Your Name star was accused in 2021 by multiple women of sexual misconduct, including rape, physical abuse and having cannibalistic fantasies.
One of the first women to come forward was influencer Paige Lorenze, who said that, when she dated Hammer, he sexually coerced her, bruised her, took graphic photos of her without her consent, and branded her. Hammer denied all allegations.
A teaser clip for the interview was shared on social media showing snippets from the interview.
At one point toward the end of video, Hammer got emotional, saying at the height of the controversy surrounding him, he had restricted access to his children, daughter, Harper, 9, and son, Ford, 7, whom he shares with TV personality Elizabeth Chambers.
"I couldn't be alone with my child," Hammer said. Newsweek contacted Hammer's lawyer by email for comment.
"Let's address the elephant in the room: are you a cannibal?" Morgan asked at the beginning of the clip.
Hammer replied, "Do you know what you have to do to be a cannibal?" and Morgan said: "Have you ever eaten any human flesh?"
"It's not a question I'd ever thought I'd have to answer," the actor replied.
Another snippet showed Morgan asking how many women had Hammer slept with and was it "more than 500," and the actor said, "sure."
The following clip showed Hammer presumably explaining the relationship with Lorenze that set off the chain of sexual misconduct allegations against him.
"This was very intense, very sexually charged, between two people," he said, and in another edit, added that "different people have different sexual fantasies."
When Morgan questioned him about the text messages where Hammer wrote that he was "100 percent a cannibal," he told the presenter: "I don't think that's any different from when someone looks at a baby and goes, 'oh my God, look at those cute little fat legs. I just want to eat you up'."
Hammer also denied branding Lorenze, but said he pierced her skin with the tip of a knife, adding, "I mean, there wasn't even blood in the situation."
"I'm not easily shocked. But I'm a little bit shocked by that," Morgan said.
Toward the end of the video, Hammer said: "I thought I was untouchable, but boy, was I wrong?"
Hammer also addressed the allegations of having a cannibalism fetish in a podcast last month where he said he was grateful for the experience, even though it harmed his career.
"I'm actually now at a place where I'm really grateful for it because, where I was in my life before all of that stuff happened to me, I didn't feel good," Hammer said during an appearance on the Painful Lessons podcast.
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