And as time has gone on, Robert has pulled back the curtain on his approach to stardom several times — admitting in recent years that he often lies in interviews just to jazz them up a little bit.
Another lie that Robert himself has admitted “came back to haunt” him was when he told GQ in 2020 that he was no longer working out in preparation for the role of Batman, telling the publication: “I think if you’re working out all the time, you’re part of the problem.”
More examples include Robert’s claim that he used to work as a women’s hand model, which his own mom shut down when he was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2011.
Other lies have been slightly more unhinged, like when he said during an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman that he got rid of his stalker by taking her out to dinner. He said in the 2009 interview: “I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside of my apartment every day for weeks – all day every day.”
During the Water For Elephants press tour in 2011, Robert told Matt Lauer during a live interview on Today that a clown once died right in front of him during a trip to the circus.
Robert was asked about this in another interview one week later, and he confessed at the time that he’d “actually made the whole thing up.”
And Robert reflected on this in his new interview with the NYT, where he said that he’d recently rewatched his original story.
