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Armie Hammer claimed on his podcast that he once got Johnny Depp, with whom he starred in 2013’s The Lone Ranger, high right before a press conference
“They never let me hang out with Johnny on the press tour after that,” said the actor
PEOPLE reached out to a rep for Depp for comment
Armie Hammer is recalling the time he allegedly got his The Lone Ranger costar Johnny Depp “super stoned” before a press junket.
The actor made the claim on the July 28 episode of his Armie HammerTime podcast, where he said around the time the film came out in 2013, “I was smoking upwards of 15 to 20 joints a day.”
“I loved marijuana roofie-ing people,” the actor, 38, said with a laugh. “I loved poisoning people,” he added, before his friend Ashton Ramsey urged him to “self-censor” himself.
Ramsey later introduced the Depp story as, “The most trouble that you ever got into was when you basically got Johnny super stoned.”
“They never let me hang out with Johnny on the press tour after that,” said Hammer of Depp, 62. “They would always keep us apart. They were like, ‘You two cannot hang out anymore.’ “
PEOPLE reached out to a rep for Depp for comment.
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Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer at a photocall for The Lone Ranger in Tokyo on July 17, 2013
Earlier this year, Hammer turned heads with another story he told while speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, during an episode released on Feb. 11.
Per E! News, the Call Me By Your Name star said he once took a bite of a living animal’s heart as a hunting “tradition.”
“You don’t eat the whole heart. One of the traditions is you take a bite out of the heart,” Hammer explained. The actor recalled being “goad[ed] on” by his friends who had joined him on the hunting expedition.
“It’s sort of like an almost overly charged male rite of passage when you go hunting for the first time,” he said. “Everyone that I know who went hunting for their first time had to do something similar.”
Hammer added that he cut out the animal’s heart “not for the purpose of any cannibalism or any sexual gratification,” referring to his past allegations of cannibalistic fantasies.
“You know what you have to do to actually be a cannibal? You have to actually eat human flesh. So no,” he said, addressing the 2021 allegations.
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Armie Hammer in New York City on March 17, 2019
Depp, as of late, has been focused on his upcoming film Day Drinker, in which he will star opposite Penélope Cruz and Madelyn Cline and marks his fourth big-screen collaboration with Cruz, 51.
The movie will also mark a return to Hollywood for Depp, as it’s his first role in a film from a major distributor since Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).
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Last month, Depp stepped out for the U.K. premiere of his film Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness, the first he has directed in over 25 years, since The Brave (1997) starring Marlon Brando.
Modi is based on Dennis McIntyre’s play about Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani. Riccardo Scamarcio plays the titular artist, while Al Pacino appears as art collector Maurice Gangnat.
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