The actor who appeared on Better Call Saul confesses to be cut off the hand

Today, in the news for us all, "Ugh, it's hard, even for Halloween": a one-handed actor appeared in a recent episode of You better call Saul publicly confessed to being cut off and not losing him during military service, as he had previously claimed. Todd Latourette, a local actor from New Mexico, played the character "Skell" in the fifth episode of the current season. BCS– says that he cut his hand 17 years ago during a psychotic breakup, but that he took advantage of the injury of recent years to arouse the sympathy of the directors casting to help him continue his career.

"I cut my hand with a saw," says Latourette, who also appeared in pieces on Longmire and The messengers– said to his local news channel, adding perhaps unnecessarily: "My state of mind was a psychotic episode." He then cauterized the injury himself and said that he was moving forward with the truth to serve as a warning for people living with a mental illness: take your medication, please.

Meanwhile, the cover of Latourette's confession in the right-wing media has mainly focused on the aspect "stolen valor" of the story, because falsely pretending to be a veteran is more shocking to a man than to be a full-fledged man. Evil Dead 2 of his own fucking hand. It is interesting to note that a), Latourette made it clear that he knew he was destroying his own career by introducing him now, and he apparently does so to appease his own guilt and spread a message about the dangers of a untreated illness, and b), anyone whose condition has progressed to the point of causing them such a degree of self-injury Probably deserves some sympathy from people, regardless of their service record.