Armie Hammer admits to carving an 'A' into ex Paige Lorenze's skin with a KNIFE but insists it was 'more like a scrape': 'There wasn't even blood in the situation'

Armie Hammer has confirmed his ex-girlfriend Paige Lorenze's accusation that he erstwhile 'branded' her pinch a weapon — but he claims it was 'more for illustration a scrape' aliases 'tattoo.'

The actor, 37, made nan admittance successful a caller question and reply pinch Piers Morgan as he seemingly tried to downplay Lorenze's disturbing type of events.

At nan tallness of Hammer's cannibalism and maltreatment ungraded successful 2021, Lorenze came guardant to impeach him of 'marking and branding' her during their 'traumatic' 4 period narration successful 2020.

The Dairy Boy laminitis alleged to DailyMail.com astatine nan clip that Hammer had carved his first first into her groin pinch a knife and licked nan humor from nan coiled during a kinky intersexual brushwood that got retired of control.

But Hammer claimed to Morgan connected Thursday, arsenic per Page Six, that he didn't technically 'brand' Lorenze and that humor was ne'er drawn.

'I wouldn't opportunity brand, no,' Hammer said.'There was a script that we talked astir beforehand, that we had discussed where, you know, I would fundamentally return a little, mini constituent and conscionable benignant of trace nan missive 'A' — conscionable for illustration nan extremity of a mini knife.'

He continued: 'I mean, location wasn't moreover humor successful nan situation. It was much for illustration a scrape… It's on nan lines of couples getting their ain initials tattooed connected each other.'

Morgan pointed retired that taking a weapon to someone's tegument is 'a spot different to a tattoo.'

'[It's] little permanent. I guarantee it was specified a mini thing,' Hammer fired back.

After Morgan confessed he was 'shocked' by nan full thing, Hammer tried to framework it arsenic a 'romantic gesture.'

'Yes, I deliberation to immoderate it astir apt sounds really strange. To some, it astir apt sounds for illustration a very romanticist gesture,' he explained.

He besides insisted that he had thing to 'gain' from 'having a intersexual acquisition that my partner didn't admit aliases enjoy.

'That was besides a immense consciousness of validation for me, making this personification that I'm pinch consciousness good, making this personification that I'm with, I don't cognize if I tin opportunity this, climax,' Hammer explained to Morgan.

'Like, these were things that made maine consciousness bully and made maine consciousness powerful, which I desperately needed, because I didn't cognize really to springiness them to myself.' 

Lorenze shared an image of her 'A' scar pinch DailyMail exclusively backmost successful 2021 arsenic she elaborate their four-month romance.

During nan exclusive 2021 interview, Lorenze accused Hammer of being an retired of power narcissistic intersexual deviant, whose alleged chaotic fantasies, BDSM fueled desires and 'role play' activity could 'seriously injure different woman.'

She besides claimed that was fixated connected biting her body, begging that she let him to return lumps of soma from her arm, earlier consuming them.

She described their clip together successful Los Angeles arsenic 'like a existent life 50 Shades Of Grey without nan love.'

Hammer, who was astatine nan highest of his fame, fell from grace successful 2021 erstwhile a bid of disturbing allegations were made against him by aggregate women, who accused him of convulsive maltreatment and harboring cannibalism fantasies.

In February 2021 his ex-girlfriend, Effie Angelova, 26, accused him of 'violently' raping and abusing her successful 2017.

He denied nan accusations of rape done his lawyer and said each of his intersexual encounters were 'completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon successful beforehand and mutually participatory'.

During an quality connected Bill Maher's podcast this week, Hammer claimed that a caller psychiatric information study revealed that he 'had issues' but he's 'not what group are saying.'

The prima discussed his 'glowing' information successful nan Cayman Islands, saying: 'I had to taxable myself for a multi-month afloat psychological evaluation, and nan study astatine nan extremity of that was glowing. By nan way, they're like, 'he's sewage issues, but he's not what group are saying.''

Maher besides gave Hammer nan chance to speak to camera and 'take accountability' for his actions - including cheating connected his erstwhile woman Elizabeth Chambers - pinch whom he shares 2 children.

He said: 'I cheated connected my wife. I utilized group to make maine consciousness better. I was callous and inconsiderate pinch group and their emotions and their well-being. I wanted what I wanted and I was going to return it astatine immoderate cost, moreover if it was astatine an affectional costs of personification else. 

'And that is s****y behavior. There are things successful my behaviour that I person to return accountability for, because that is pivotal for maine learning and increasing from it.'

The character retreated to nan Cayman Islands successful nan aftermath of nan ungraded - and said he would alternatively activity than inquire his able family to support him pinch 'free lunches.'

Armie - who was ordered to salary $1,500 a period successful kid support - afloat admitted he's collapsed and said he applied to beryllium a play teacher, landscaper, building manager, and timeshare salesman but 'the Cayman Islands refuses to springiness maine activity permits.' 

'You opportunity what you want, I loved it. I would emotion to beryllium a timeshare salesman it is truthful fun,' Hammer quipped.

'Someone mightiness look astatine maine and go, 'Yeah but financially you're successful a very different position than you've ever been successful your full life.'

'And I look astatine that and I go, 'Yeah and you cognize what? It's taught maine that I don't request that because I've ne'er been happier than I've ever been successful my full life.'

He said: 'I would alternatively spell get a occupation trading time-shares. I applied for a occupation to beryllium a play teacher. I applied for a occupation to beryllium a landscaper. I applied for a occupation to beryllium a building manager, and nan Cayman Islands refuses to springiness maine activity permits.'

Discussing nan constabulary investigation - he said: 'They went done phones, emails, eyewitness reports. They investigated maine for 2 and a half years successful a clip wherever if they could person nailed personification for illustration me, it would person been specified a boon for nan LAPD,' Hammer noted.

'And aft 2 and a half years they came to nan conclusion that location is nary grounds immoderate crime had been committed.'

Hammer - who utilized to 'smoke 20 joints a day' - has remained happily sober pursuing his nine-month stint astatine a Florida rehab to conflict his addictions to drugs, alcohol, and activity issues.

'Therapy for maine has been a life changer,' nan Golden Globe nominee gushed.

'Listen, I needed an adjustment. There was immoderate s*** going on. Here's what I deliberation would person happened had nary of this gone connected and for illustration nan cataclysmic tectonic displacement successful my life wouldn't person happened. My life would person kept going precisely arsenic it was, and I cognize that would yet only lead successful 1 spot and that's death...

'I knowledgeable an ego death, a profession death, a financial decease - each of these things, right? And [William Paul] Young talks astir this. Joseph Campbell talks astir this. You've sewage to dice and erstwhile you dice you tin past beryllium reborn. A phoenix isn't going to emergence if there's nary ashes.'

Before his cancellation, Armie afloat admitted he was 'drinking a lot. I was doing a batch of drugs. I was partying hard. I was being existent accelerated and loose astir what I put successful matter messages and I was besides engaging successful risky behaviour that, if you really deliberation astir it, was stupid!'

The 68-year-old Emmy-winning shaper - whose movie poster for Cannibal Women ironically hung down nan brace - overlooked astir of Hammer's past behaviour but drew nan statement astatine him drinking and driving while filming himself backmost successful 2021.

'100 percent! 100 percent! To beryllium fair, it was MDMA. I'm a small hazy,' Armie admitted.

'I mean who hasn't done MDMA successful nan passenger's spot of a car?'

When Bill asked again if he was down nan wheel, Hammer shrugged: 'Maybe I was? Also 100% I decidedly drove irresponsibly for judge and and by nan measurement I did each kinds of crazy s*** that if I really deliberation astir it now. I benignant of look astatine it, there's nary measurement I didn't expect this moreover unconsciously subconsciously. It was self-destruction.'

Maher was besides visibly uncomfortable asking nan precocious schoolhouse drop-out why he carved his first first 'A' into Lorenze's pubic area pinch a weapon during their four-month fling.

'You get successful these moods, for illustration particularly if you're inebriated aliases particularly if whatever, you commencement to go, 'This is simply a awesome idea!'' Armie - whose texts were 'negotiating boundaries' - explained.

'And it's like, wait, group get tattoos of each other's initials each nan time. And by nan way, like, I'm not performing surgery. All of these things successful a consensual narration that were prediscussed and consented to, immoderate they mightiness person been betwixt 2 people.'

Hammer - who, astatine property 13, was molested by a 'member of nan clergy' for 'about a year' - concluded: 'At nan extremity of nan day, wounded group wounded people.'

'What would hap is I would suck these women into this whirlwind and past nan infinitesimal it sewage existent aliases nan infinitesimal it sewage friendly aliases nan infinitesimal it sewage serious, I would go, 'Whoa! I ne'er signed up for this!' And I would conscionable I would move connected and, for illustration nan Seinfeld episode, I was a unspeakable breaker-upper,' nan two-time SAG Award nominee recalled.

Armie's past acting domiciled was portraying Alex Magnussen successful Taika Waititi's 2023 movie Next Goal Wins, but nan full domiciled was reshot successful December 2021 pinch seven-time Emmy nominee Will Arnett.

The past clip audiences saw Hammer he played nan two-timing Simon Doyle successful Kenneth Branagh's 2022 movie Death connected nan Nile, but he was wholly edited retired of nan trailers.

Last period Hammer revealed he is grateful for nan daze cannibalism and maltreatment allegations which imploded his once-stellar Hollywood acting career.

Speaking connected nan Painful Lessons podcast, nan character said of nan scandal: 'Whatever it was that group said, immoderate it was that happened, I'm now astatine a spot successful my life wherever I'm grateful for each azygous spot of it,

'I'm really now astatine a spot wherever I'm really grateful for it because wherever I was successful my life earlier each of that worldly happened to maine I didn't consciousness bully I ne'er felt satisfied I ne'er had capable I ne'er was successful a spot wherever I was happy pinch myself wherever I had self-esteem.

'I ne'er knew really to springiness myself love. I ne'er knew really to springiness myself self-validation but I had this occupation wherever I was capable to get it from truthful galore group that I ne'er had to study really to springiness it to myself.'

On being accused of cannibalism - nan character reportedly said he was '100% a cannibal' successful 2021 texts - he added: 'People called maine a cannibal. Like I ate people! What???? You cognize what you person to do to beryllium a cannibal? You person to eat people!'

He added of his downfall: 'It was an ego death, a profession death. A neutron explosive went disconnected successful my life. It killed disconnected [everything]'

His then-wife Chambers divided from him successful July 2020 - nan erstwhile mates stock 2 young children.

The prima said he had contemplated termination during that period, saying: 'There were a batch of times erstwhile I thought I can't return this anymore. I was getting hate…so it conscionable went correct in… location was a time

'I was opinionated astatine nan statement and I swam retired really acold and conscionable laying there..a half-assed termination attempt…But I thought I couldn't do that to my kids.'

He admitted his Hollywood profession is 'nowhere now' and said he's 'creating his ain sandbox' and readying to constitute a screenplay.

Hammer admits that his Hollywood profession is 'nowhere now' and noted that he's creating his 'own sandbox' wherever he plans to constitute a screenplay.

He has many times denied nan allegations nevertheless nan fallout surrounding nan ungraded has seen Armie's Hollywood profession each but vanish. 

The star, who first made his sanction playing some nan Winklevoss twins successful The Social Network, was dropped by his individual publicist and erstwhile agency arsenic good arsenic aggregate projects pursuing nan allegations.

Hammer besides stepped down from a domiciled successful Jennifer Lopez's movie Shotgun Wedding, but maintained his innocence.

'I'm not responding to these bulls***t claims but successful ray of nan vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot successful bully conscience now time off my children for 4 months to sprout a movie successful nan Dominican Republic,' he said successful a connection to DailyMail.

Armie has not been charged by nan LA County District Attorney, and has since made attempts to restart his career.