Armie Hammer admitted to branding ex Paige Lorenze with a knife but insisted that “there wasn’t even blood.”
In a new interview with Piers Morgan, the disgraced actor said he disagreed with the Dairy Boy founder’s recollection of events regarding the incident, saying he didn’t technically brand her.
“I wouldn’t say brand, no,” he said in an exclusive excerpt obtained by Page Six. “There was a scenario that we talked about beforehand, that we had discussed where, you know, I would basically take a little, tiny point and just kind of trace the letter ‘A’ — just like the tip of a small knife.”
“I mean, there wasn’t even blood in the situation. It was more like a scrape… It’s along the lines of couples getting their own initials tattooed on each other,” Hammer, 37, added.
When Morgan, 59, noted that using a knife on someone is “a bit different to a tattoo,” the “Call Me By Your Name” star said it was “less permanent.
“I guarantee it was such a small thing,” he claimed.
Morgan told Hammer that he was a “little bit shocked” by his actions, to which the actor replied, “Yes, I think to some it probably sounds really strange. To some, it probably sounds like a very romantic gesture.”
Hammer said that he had nothing “to be gained” in “having a sexual experience that my partner didn’t appreciate or enjoy.”
“That was also a huge sense of validation for me, making this person that I’m with feel good, making this person that I’m with, I don’t know if I can say this, climax,” he explained.
“Like, these were things that made me feel good and made me feel powerful, which I desperately needed, because I didn’t know how to give them to myself.”
Page Six has reached out to Lorenze’s rep for comment but did not immediately hear back.
In January 2021, Lorenze — who dated the “Social Network” star for four months in 2020 — exclusively told Page Six that he used a knife to make the letter “A” near her vagina — where there was visible blood — and left bruises on her body.
“I kind of sat back and let it happen,” she told us. “I didn’t really know what to do or say … As sad as that is, I wanted him to like me and feel like I was down for what he wanted.”
The influencer, now 26, claimed Hammer wanted her to show off her bruises and “be proud of them.”
“I said, ‘How am I supposed to see other people when I have bruises?’ He said, ‘That’s the point.’ I think it was a part of marking and branding,” she said.
In addition to the branding, Lorenze claimed the “Death on the Nile” actor wanted her to be his “little slave” and shared his BDSM fantasies with her.
In January 2021, Hammer was also accused of “mentally, emotionally and sexually” abusing his ex-girlfriend Effie Angelova, now 26, when she was 20 years old. (Hammer denied Angelova’s rape claim and claimed their sexual encounters were consensual.)
That same year, his ex Courtney Vucekovich accused Hammer of cannibalism, telling Page Six that he allegedly told her “he wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it.” (Hammer denied the cannibalism accusations.)
Six months before the allegations surfaced, Hammer’s then-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, filed for divorce.
The former couple share two children: daughter Harper, 9, and son Ford, 7.
Despite losing his family and career over the cannibalism and rape allegations, the dad of two admitted to Bill Maher earlier this week he’s “never been happier.”
You can watch Hammer’s interview in full on Friday at 6 p.m. UK time on Morgan’s Uncensored channel on YouTube.