Armie Hammer is talking out concerning the private scandal that despatched his life right into a spiral three years in the past.
“People called me a cannibal, and everyone believed them,” the actor mentioned on an episode of the “Painful Lessons” podcast launched Sunday. “They’re like, ‘Yup, that guy ate people.’”
“Like, what? What are you talking about? Do you know what you have to do to be a cannibal?” he added. “You have to eat people! How am I going to be a cannibal? It was bizarre.”
In 2021, the actor was embroiled in controversy after a number of ladies accused him of sexual abuse and coercion, and shared personal messages the place somebody alleged to be Hammer expressed an curiosity in cannibalism and different sadistic fetishes.
Hammer denied the accusations of rape and bodily abuse by way of his attorneys, calling the sexual encounters in query “completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory.”
The star was dropped by his expertise company, WME, and made a untimely exit from initiatives just like the Jennifer Lopez rom-com “Shotgun Wedding” and the “Godfather”-inspired Paramount+ collection “The Offer.”
Amid the cannibalism scandal, the inheritor to the Hammer household oil fortune mentioned he skilled each “an ego death” and “a career death.”
“It’s almost like a neutron bomb went off in my life,” he informed “Painful Lessons” host Tyler Ramsey. “It killed me, it killed my ego, it killed all the people around me that I thought were my friends that weren’t — all of those people, in a flash, went away.”
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Within the wake of the allegations, Hammer would relocate to the Cayman Islands to regroup whereas staying close to his and estranged spouse Elizabeth Chambers’ youngsters.
He subsequently checked right into a Florida rehab facility for “drug, alcohol, and sex issues,” in response to stories from Self-importance Truthful on the time.
Although Hammer looks like his life was upended by the accusations, he mentioned he was “grateful” that the scenario pressured him to confront a sample of unhealthy conduct.
“Even in the indiscrepancies, even in the ― whatever it was that people said, whatever it was that happened, I’m now at a place in my life where I’m grateful for every single bit of it,” the “Call Me by Your Name” actor defined.
In fall 2022, a number of of Hammer’s accusers got here ahead within the three-part Discovery+ docuseries “House of Hammer,” the place they detailed their alleged experiences with the actor.
One among Hammer’s preliminary accusers, a girl going by the identify of Effie who accused the actor of rape, denounced the collection in an announcement, calling it “extremely inappropriate” to “exploit such a tragic, vulnerable time in many people’s lives with no regard whatsoever for our healing process and privacy.”
Take a look at Hammer’s full dialog on the “Painful Lessons” podcast.
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