In a brand new profile with New York Instances Fashion Journal, the Twilight alum confessed to creating up a wild childhood story throughout an interview on Right now with former host Matt Laurer.

Through the April 2011 sit down, Pattinson claimed that he witnessed a clown dying when he was a toddler.

On the time, he was doing a promo for his circus-themed film Water for Elephants, costarring Reese Witherspoon and Christopher Waltz. The film, based mostly on the guide of the identical identify, grossed $117 million worldwide.

He instructed the journal that he had “completely no hesitation in any respect” when he was requested by Lauer about his first time on the circus.

“The primary time I went to the circus, any person died,” Pattinson instructed the host. “His little automotive exploded on him.”

When Lauer requested if he was being severe in regards to the story, Pattinson gave him a fast sure — earlier than telling the host that everybody ran out of the occasion, whereas calling the incident “terrifying.”

“I am like, ‘What on earth? Are you possessed?’” he mentioned whereas recalling the interplay to New York Instances Journal.

He added, “the one factor individuals would ever ask me about was being well-known. You go into, like, a fugue state.”

Pattinson, after all, is understood for telling little white lies in interviews.

Throughout a press junket for Batman with costar Zoe Kravitz, she even referred to as him out for telling tall tales whereas in the course of the interview.

“Okay, so Rob is a liar,” Kravitz blurted out. “He tells all these tales, and now he is being requested about them, and he doesn’t know what’s true or not.”

As a rebuttal, Pattinson mentioned, “I believe it’s true, however it in all probability is not. Let’s transfer on.”

On one other press junket for his film Good Time, he requested, straight up, “Why do you lie?”

“You spend your complete complete life making an attempt to interrupt down the road between reality and lies,” he replied wit fun. “To the purpose you possibly can’t distinguish it anymore, and that is the extent I am at proper now.”