Armie Hammer Is ‘Grateful’ for Those Cannibalism Accusations
The actor said he experienced “ego death” after multiple women alleged that he abused them.
In the three years since multiple women came forward to accuse Armie Hammer of abuse, sexual misconduct, and having violent fetishes, the actor hasn’t done much public speaking beyond denying the allegations against him as “vicious and spurious online attacks.” Now, Hammer appears to be feeling a little more chatty. The disgraced actor recently appeared on his friend Tyler Ramsey’s podcast, Painful Lessons, where he described being accused of rape and having cannibalistic fantasies as something like an ayahuasca trip.
To refresh your memory: In 2021, an anonymous Twitter account posted screenshots that allegedly showed Hammer describing violent sexual fantasies involving rape and cannibalism to women via Instagram DM. Then, two of the actor’s exes came forward to claim he had psychologically abused them and manipulated them into BDSM practices they weren’t comfortable with. A third ex-girlfriend, Effie Angelova, also accused him of raping her in 2017; the LAPD declined to bring charges against Hammer after investigating her claims. Hammer denied all the allegations, describing his encounters with the women as consensual. The actor was swiftly dropped by his agency and removed from two projects he’d been cast in, and a few months later he reportedly checked into a rehabilitation facility.
Hammer reflects on all this as a learning process in the podcast episode, which comes six months after Angelova spoke in detail to the Daily Mail about the abuse she alleges she endured during their relationship. “Before all of that stuff happened to me, I didn’t feel good,” Hammer said. “I never knew how to give myself love. I never knew how to give myself validation. But I had this job where I was able to get it from so many people that I never had to learn how to give it to myself.”
Hammer added that he’s “now at a place in my life where I’m grateful for every single bit of it,” describing the fallout from the allegations as an “ego death” and a “career death.” “It’s almost like a neutron bomb went off in my life,” he said. “It killed me, it killed my ego, it killed all the people standing around me that I thought were my friends that weren’t … But the buildings were still standing. I’m still here, I still have my health, and I’m really grateful for that.”
As far as his next career steps, Hammer described himself as “not a viable commodity for the entertainment industry” right now. But he shared that he recently finished writing a script with “my buddy Jerry.” Sounds like he’s got it all figured out.
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