Joaquin Phoenix Just Wants To Be Loved: ‘I Can Get Engaged Again, If You Like’

Joaquin Phoenix told David Letterman during a December 8 interview that he was engaged to an unnamed yoga instructor. 

It turns out that Joaquin Phoenix is willing to fabricate a story about how he fell in love after attempting a yoga position he called "harnessing the hog" just to get people to like him as it appears that the actor is not engaged at all. 

"I think my life's so boring, and it seemed like something exciting to talk about, and I wanted the audience to like me," Phoenix stated, according to Us Magazine. 

He added, "They really like people getting married. I can get engaged again, if you like."

The "Her" actor's publicist also denied Joaquin Phoenix's recent hoax engagement, telling the U.K.'s The Independent, "Joaquin has an extraordinary and spontaneous sense of humor but it is not true."

Apparently, Letterman was in on the joke as well. 

"I did not play a prank on him - he knew that I was joking around," stated Phoenix during an appearance on "Live! With Kelly and Michael," according to Huffington Post. 

Phoenix's fake love story about the yoga instructor was fairly impressive, as it may have been one of the most bizarre stories he has yet to tell. 

"First we do these breathing exercises and I go, 'I can do this' and then she says we are going to get in the first position - the 'harnessing of the hog," the "Walk The Line" star told Letterman. 

He continued, "Before I say, 'Who is the hog,' she grabs me [and] it's a compromising and vulnerable position, and she gets a strap and puts it [around me] and she's thrusting. And I go, 'Oh no! My back pain!' And she goes, 'No, that's your emotional back pain.'"

Despite the strangeness of the story, Phoenix reportedly stated that the "crazy part of the story" was the fact that the two started "fake" dating. 

"I proposed to her and she said yes. If everything works out, so far, so good," explained Phoenix.