Armie Hammer’s fall from grace as one of Hollywood’s rising stars has been well documented after allegations of abuse were levelled against him.
The actor starred in films such as The Social Network, The Lone Ranger, The Man from UNCLE and received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Oliver in the romantic drama Call Me By Your Name.
But in 2021, a number of women came forward with allegations of abuse against the actor, and his professional life came to a standstill.
Hammer has always denied the allegations and following an investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) no criminal charges against him were pursued.
However, it led to an hiatus in his Hollywood career after he was dropped by his talent agency.
During this time, he said he worked as a timeshare salesman in the Cayman Islands and an apartment block manager to earn a living.
Now the 38-year-old is returning to the entertainment industry with a new film project, a western called Frontier Crucible.
And in a podcast with journalist and broadcaster Louis Theroux he talks candidly about his past, addresses the accusations made against him and speaks about his plans for the future.
We take a look at what he has to say.
Louis Theroux, who has interviewed Armie Hammer in his podcast (Photo: Mike Marsland/WireImage)The actor spoke openly about a previous text message exchange in which he was said to have written, “I am 100% a cannibal”, and that he had “cut the heart out of a living animal before and eaten it while still warm”.
Hammer said: “I think the most important context to give these things is they are one side of a conversaton.
“As you’ll notice, of all of the text messages that were released, the person who released them, their side was cut out of the entire conversation.
“It makes it look like I was just rambling to myself.
“I mean, if you look, there’s really no response in any of these.”
He added: “Any digitally altered evidence is immediately inadmissible because you have no context.
“That could have been a very funny conversation between two people who were joking and pushing each other and egging each other on in the way that sometimes you see comedians pushing the boundary further and further when they’re having a conversation.
“I’m not going to argue the messages.”
Pressed by Theroux on whether he actually is a cannibal, he said: “You know what you have to do to actually be a cannibal?
“You have to actually eat human flesh. So, no.”
But when asked if he had eaten an animal heart while still warm, he said: “One of the traditions is you take a bite out of the heart and you’ve got all your buddies around you, they’re goading you on.
“It’s sort of like a almost overly-charged male rite of passage when you go hunting for your first time.
“Everyone that I know who went hunting for their first time had to do something similar.”
Allegations of abuse against women
Hammer was accused of sexual assault by his ex-girlfriend Efrosina Angelovai in 2021, who posted on an Instagram account screenshots of sexually-charged text messages he was alleged to have sent.
Two other women also came forward accusing him of emotional and physical abuse during their relationships.
Hammer has denied the allegations and his legal team stated at the time “the assertions about Mr Hammer are patently untrue.
“Any interactions with any partner of his were completely consensual in that they were fully discussed, agreed upon, and mutually participatory”.
Speaking about them on the podcast, he said the messages were posted “out of context”.
He added: “The other part of that conversation was, you know, how much the other person enjoyed it, the things that they liked about it, the things that the next time they want to do differently or more of.
“You know, I mean, this was a back-and-forth conversation between two people who were expressing their sexuality in a way that they both agreed to and consented to.
“You know, I mean, there’s a big part of the BDSM [bondage, domination, sadism and masochism] world that when taken out of context, looks not great.”
Asked about the other women who came forward with allegations, he said: “All of those things were also investigated by the LAPD.
“A lot of this, I think, was put very well, where they said, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
“And by the way, I’m very quick to admit that I was selfish and inconsiderate and an asshole and a cad and I used people to make me feel better.
“People were sort of like my bags of dope with skin on them, you know?
“I left a lot of people in that wake very angry at me for my behaviour, which by the way was asshole behaviour, there’s no way around that.
“Does it make me a d**k? Absolutely, like I have no problem admitting that I was a d**k, but that’s not illegal, you know?”
Hammer married Elizabeth Chambers in 2010, the owner of a bakery chain and televison personality.
The couple have two children but separated in 2020 and divorced in 2023.
Hammer admitted he had been unfaithful during his marriage.
Speaking to Theroux, he said: “I would say that I pursued an affair because things were not going well.
“You know, I think what I have found is that happy people in happy relationships generally don’t have affairs.
“So that is always sort of the crescendo, and there’s always a mountain underneath that of relationship issues.
“You know, I’m certainly not here to air the dirty laundry of my marriage, but it was a classic tale of two people growing over a long course of a long marriage.
“I was married for nine years and I got married when I was 23, 24 years old – very young – and didn’t even have a firm sense or understanding of myself as you typically don’t at 24 years old.”
Hollywood departure
Hammer lost work in Hollywood on the back of the allegations in 2021 – he had to drop out of the film Shotgun Wedding with Jennifer Lopez.
He said: “All my jobs went away in the blink of an eye.
“There wasn’t a process. It just all seemed to happen overnight.
“Jobs, representation, everything just went, boom.
“It was a complete death. It was a career death. It was an ego death. It was a financial death”
But he claims this proved to be a pivotal point in his life.
“It killed off all of the bullshit,” he said, adding: “It killed off all of the pretence.
“And I spent three years and change really having to examine myself and really having to look at myself.
“Now with a sense of distance and perspective from it, it’s the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
He said he didn’t drink alcohol for three years after the 2021 allegations and although now he will have a drink he said: “I don’t get drunk, I don’t get high, I don’t get stoned”.
He also said he attended a “trauma treatment facility” in Florida.
Childhood abuse
Hammer was asked about sexual abuse he said he endured during his teenage years.
Speaking to the digital newsletter Air Mail in 2023, he said he was sexually abused by a youth pastor.
He told Theroux on the podcast: “I don’t want to be like, okay, it all makes sense.
“I’m not a therapist, but I think that it would be very difficult not to relate that in some way with reverberating effects through the rest of your life, of anyone’s life.
“And, you know, my mom and I spent hours talking.
“There were aspects of that that I needed to look at, and I needed to process and that I needed to come to terms with and I needed to accept and I needed to move through.”
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