Back in 2012 Jose Alvarenga gained worldwide fame as the man who survived 428 days adrift in the ocean.
He became a real-life Tom Hanks in Castaway.
The 36-year-old had gone on a fishing trip off the coast of Mexico with his friend Ezequiel Cordoba, when a storm swept them 6,700 miles from shore.
Unfortunately, Ezequiel didn't survive. Jose, however, managed to keep himself alive for 15 months, eventually washing ashore in the Marshall Islands in January 2014. He kept himself going by drinking urine and turtle blood, as well as eating birds and fish.
The 22-year-old Ezequiel died of starvation very quickly, according to Jose, but he kept his companion's dead body for six days in order to have someone to talk to (he'd be the perfect pub pal really - agrees with everything you say)
The Cordoba family are now suing the castaway for $1million (€915,000), claiming that their son was actually a victim of cannibalism.
In fairness, he did look like he wasn't short of a breakfast roll when they picked him up.
The allegations came just days after the fisherman released his book about the ordeal, but Jose's lawyer claims that the family only want a cut of the money the book makes to compensate for the loss of their son.
"I believe that this demand is part of the pressure from this family to divide the proceeds of royalties. Many believe the book is making my client a rich man, but what he will earn is much less than people think," Ricardo Cucalon, told the El Diario de Hoy newspaper.
