GOSSIP & RUMORS: Charlie Hunnam’s girlfriend begged him to stop using Ed Gein voice at home

Breakfast with the butcher.

Charlie Hunnam’s longtime girlfriend, Morgana McNelis, requested that the actor stop using his Ed Gein voice — which he used to portray the infamous murderer for “The Monster: The Ed Gein Story.”

“She did [ask me],” Hunnam, 45, told E! News at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night. “I was slipping in and out of it all the time, and she was saying, ‘Dude. You have to stop with the voice.’ At breakfast, it’s a little too much.”

In another interview with ExtraTV, Hunnam referred to McNelis, 42, as his wife while sharing how they rang in the new year.

“We did it quiet,” he said. “I always like to ring in the new year mainly on the 1st rather than on the 31st. So my wife and I went to bed early, got up, had a really beautiful hike, and came in, set some intentions.”

The pair, who have been together since 2005, have never publicly announced that they are married.

Hunnam was nominated for the “Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television” category for his performance in “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” at the star-studded bash.

Season 3 of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series aired in Oct. 2025 and focused on Ed Gein, also known as the “Butcher of Plainfield.” He was arrested in 1957 after authorities discovered that he had killed at least two women and exhumed corpses from graveyards.

Viewers were impressed by Hunnam’s performance.

“As for Charlie Hunnam, I’m at a loss for words. What he delivered wasn’t just acting; it was transformation. You can feel the weight he carried in every frame.I just hope he’s doing okay(mentally) after diving that deep,” one person wrote via X.

“His voice, his facial expression, his creepiness, his awkward body movement…. Oh he is eating this role up,” another viewer wrote.

Before the show aired on Netflix, Hunnam revealed that he thought he made a “mistake” when he agreed to play the serial killer.

“I mean, it got in my head…The most in my head. Before we started shooting, during the research period, everything that’s been written about Ed have been these sort of sensationalist, grotesque litanies of just horror. And I really started to get scared that maybe I’d made a mistake and this was just going to be impossibly bleak and dark and a horrible process,” Hunnam told People last year.

“And then there was a breakthrough.”

The turning point was when he read Gein’s medical records, giving him a “less sensationalized depiction of who he was.”

“It was just the brass facts of his mental illness, his struggles with isolation, his emotional abandonment from his mother. And I just started to see the human,” Hunnam explained. “Because that’s what we were really trying to do, is just find the human story within this, ask the question what creates a monster and why this man did the things that he did, and less interested in what he did, and really very interested in trying to answer the question why he did what he did.”

Gein was found unfit to stand trial and was sectioned in a mental health facility. He died in 1984 at the age of 77.

Many believe Gein’s crimes inspired several horror films, such as “Psycho,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Silence of the Lambs.”

“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” also stars Laurie Metcalf, Suzanna Son and Tom Hollander.