Armie Hammer has lastly addressed allegations of cannibalism he’s confronted prior to now three years, saying he’s in the end “grateful” for the expertise.
The 37-year-old actor, recognized for his roles in Name Me By Your Identify and the Social Community, discovered himself on the centre of a social media scandal in 2021 after direct messages allegedly despatched from Hammer detailed graphic sexual needs and cannibalistic fetishism. He was subsequently accused of rape and abuse, a declare he has since denied.
Other than a brief assertion by way of his lawyer shared on the time, by which he known as the allegations “bulls***”, Hammer has remained silent on the claims, which, in his personal phrases, induced “profession dying”. Because the scandal intensified, the actor stepped down from future movie roles and, a month later he was dropped by his expertise company.
The actor has now opened up in regards to the furore, saying he’s “grateful” for the expertise.
Throughout an look on podcast Painful Classes, Hammer tackled the cannibal claims head-on, stating: “Individuals known as me a cannibal, and everybody believed them. They’re like, ‘Yep, that man ate individuals.’
“Like, what? What are you speaking about? Have you learnt what it’s a must to do to be a cannibal? It’s a must to eat individuals! How am I going to be a cannibal?! It was weird.”
Hammer stated there have been “discrepancies in no matter it was that folks stated”, however added: “I’m now at a spot in my life the place I’m grateful for each single little bit of it.”
Elaborating upon this, the actor stated that, earlier than the allegations surfaced, he “by no means knew the best way to give myself love” as his job permitted him “to get it from so many individuals”.
He continued: “I’m truly now at a spot the place I’m actually grateful for it as a result of, the place I used to be in my life earlier than all of that stuff occurred to me, I didn’t really feel good. I by no means felt glad. I by no means had sufficient. I by no means was in a spot the place I used to be pleased with myself, the place I had shallowness.”
Hammer stated he joined a 12-step programme after the allegations surfaced as they induced “an ego dying” and “a profession dying”.
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“It’s nearly like a neutron bomb went off in my life. It killed me, it killed my ego, it killed all of the individuals round me that I assumed had been my buddies that weren’t – all of these individuals, in a flash, went away.
“However the buildings had been nonetheless standing. I’m nonetheless right here, I nonetheless have my well being, and I’m actually grateful for that.”
Hammer mirrored on the derailment of his profession, telling the podcast that’s is now not “a viable commodity” for what he described because the “Hollywood system”.
Nonetheless, the actor, who has no appearing initiatives within the pipeline, stated he’s presently writing a script with a buddy.
The allegations towards Hammer got here one yr afterthe actor break up from his spouse of 10 years, Elizabeth Chambers, with whom he has two kids, aged 9 and 7.
