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Today in “What the Actual F-ck” news, we have Glen Powell, his sister’s friend, black market lotion, and a maybe-cannibal. Glen has set himself up nicely to star in the next Urban Legend movie because he fell for a story that his sister and her friend told him Hookman, line, and sinker. On a recent episode of his friend Jake Shane’s Therapuss podcast, Glen retold a story about how his sister’s friend supposedly said that she once went out on a date with a guy who gave her “weird vibes.” As the story goes, his sister’s friend went back to the man’s apartment, where he slathered some lotion on her and gave her a back rub. Weirded out, she ended the date early and peaced out. The next day, she started “itching like crazy” and saw a doctor, who discovered that it was a result of “black market lotion that breaks down skin for human consumption.”
Now, at this point, I think most of us would go online and do some research or cry BS, but not poor Glen. He kept going with the story, which ends with doctors urging her to call the cops and report him. When the POPO got to the dude’s place, they discovered that he’d told a lot of women to put that lotion on their skin or else they’d get the hose again. And, according to Glen’s sister’s friend, those poor women didn’t make it. While Glen has never questioned this story, the Internet did, recognizing it from Days of Urban Myths Past. They took to Snopes and Reddit and quickly debunked this story.
During a late May appearance on the “Therapuss” podcast hosted by his workout partner Jake Shane, Powell told a story about how his little sister’s friend got “weird vibes” from a guy on a date – who turned out to be a cannibal, after he gave her a massage with “black market lotion that breaks down skin for human consumption.”
Turns out, the internet fact-checked the claims first and found that the “Top Gun: Maverick” alum’s viral moment was originally an urban myth. According to Snopes, a site that fact checks and debunks urban legends, their first email in this vein dates back to 2001.
Powell jokingly took to X to speak out about the podcast segment that tore the internet apart with speculation.
“Props to my little sister’s friend who told her this dating story…I’ve been telling this for years,” Powell said on X Monday before quipping, “I’m questioning my whole life now… False alarm. Back rubs are back.”
During the original date story, he said his little sister’s friend went to the man’s apartment for the back rub and she got “weird vibes” and left the apartment. The next day, she went to a doctor after her skin started “itching like crazy” and the doctor ran tests which found the “black market lotion.”
“This man was rubbing lotion on her body to eat her, so the doctor’s like ‘You got to give me this person’s address and you should call the police.’ They got to this guy’s house, and he had several girls’ bodies,” Powell told Shane.
Hey, at least Glen took it in stride. He didn’t try to protest or yell some Q-Anon crap about how it’s a cover up and that’s what the government wants us to think. I’m sure he was hella embarrassed to be retelling this story with such conviction, so power on him for not letting his ego get in his way of brushing it off. It would be cool if he ended up in a movie about this one, maybe playing the detective hunting the cannibal down.
I admit, when I first saw this headline, my first thought went to Arnie Hammer and whether or not the sister’s friend ran in the same circles! I’d never heard of this particular urban legend, but it sounds like one from start to finish. What do you guys think is the scariest UL out there? When I was growing up, the only one that ever actually scared me because I believed it was Bloody Mary. I was always that kid at sleepovers who would be like, “But what if we played ‘light as a feather, stiff as a board’ again instead?”
Props to my little sister’s friend who told her this dating story…I’ve been telling this for years. I’m questioning my whole life now…
False alarm.
Back rubs are back. https://t.co/LhdeBjRJRc
— Glen Powell (@glenpowell) June 11, 2024
photos credit: Getty images for Netflix, Josh Huskin
