The actor "Better Call Saul" admits to being cut off the arm, lying about to be a wounded veteran

One of the strangest – and most macabre – cases of stolen valor has been unearthed this week when an actor recently appeared in a popular TV show acknowledged being cut off the arm and lied to the fact that he was a wounded veteran.

Todd Latourette, who recently appeared in Season 4 of AMC's "Breaking Bad" pre-series, "Better Call Saul," told KOB 4 of Aluquerque that he had been mutilated and cauterized 17 years ago. years, desperate to gain more acting roles.

"I cut my hand with a jigsaw," he said, adding that he had stopped taking medications for bipolar disorder at the time. "My state of mind was a psychotic episode."

The actor ended up playing a number of minor roles while maintaining a story that he had been injured in combat overseas.

"The film industry obviously took a different angle," he said. I was different And so they liked that.

But the actor now says that he realizes that he has been hired only because of the ongoing deception, a revelation that he believes is difficult to live.

"I was dishonorable," he told KOB 4. "I'm killing my career by doing this.If someone thinks it's for a personal edification, it's not a good thing." This is not the case, I am retiring from the New Mexico film industry, and willingly, just to say what I said.

Latourette insisted that he did not expect someone to forgive him, but hoped his experience could be a lesson for someone else to taken with a mental illness.

"You have the power to take your medicine in the morning or in the evening," he says. "This speech of my life does not have to be yours, because it happens quickly … it happens quickly."

Other appearances on Latourette's screen include George Clooney and Ewan McGregor's movie "The Men Who Watch Goats", as well as "Longmire", the Netflix show.