Entourage actor Jeremy Piven recently spoke to Rolling Stone‘s Peter Travers about the infamous mercury poisoning incident that wound up with Piven leaving the Broadway production of Speed the Plow two months into production and ending in a lawsuit between Piven and the show’s producers. Piven, who became the butt of the joke around the Internets and via late night hosts, claims that his heavy sushi diet is to blame for the mercury poisoning.

“It’s easy and it’s fun to say that he ate a bad piece of yellowtail,” Piven said of his critics.

Meanwhile, as Piven reportedly hit on Kim Kardashian and was rejected. Piven recently saw Kardashian out on the town and her asked her out for dinner and talk about the possibility of her appearing on Entourage.

Kim balked, telling him, ‘Talk to my mom – she handles me,’ before walking away.