Armie Hammer is addressing those accusations… well at least some of them.
via Complex:
“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,” Hammer said on the Painful Lessons podcast. “I’m actually now at a place where I’m really grateful for it because where I was in my life before all of that stuff happened to me, I didn’t feel good. I never felt satisfied.”
At the height of his acting career, multiple women accused Hammer of abuse, with one woman saying he was “100% a cannibal.”
“I never had enough, I never was in a place where I was happy with myself where I had self-esteem,” Hammer explained. “I never knew how to give myself love. I never knew how to give myself self-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 is currently in a 12-step program after going through an “ego death” right when the accusations surfaced. He also said the cannibalism accusations were false while also revealing how all the allegations deeply affected his mental health.
“There were a lot of times when I thought I can’t take this anymore,” Hammer said. “I was getting hate…so it just went right in… there was a time I was standing at the shore and I swam out really far and just laying there..a half-assed suicide attempt…But I thought I couldn’t do that to my kids.”
In case you need a memory refresher, in 2021, a woman accused Hammer of raping her in 2017, and said that he had "increasingly more violent" fantasies that he would sometimes act out on her.
Others shared alleged texts and direct messages from the actor detailing violent sexual fantasies that involved cannibalism and murder. In the texts, Hammer detailed these fantasies, saying he wanted to do things like "breaking your bones," "cut a piece of your skin off and make you cook it for me," I want to see your brain, your blood, your organs, every part of you," and "I need your blood. I want you to feed me with it."
Hammer had denied any claims of sexual assault, but did admit he has a "very intense and extreme lifestyle," and said that all his sexual encounters were "completely consensual."
Back when I first heard this story I thought Armie was on some Patrick Bateman-type trip when it came to his sexual fetishes.
Unfortunately, it took something as drastic as these allegations for people like Armie to go into therapy, and get the help they desperately needed before he made said cannibalistic fantasies a reality. I hope he's actually getting help, and not using the podcast as a way to rehabilitate his image.
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