Armie Hammer began the brand new 12 months by reflecting on the scandal that derailed his acting career. Hammer appeared on Christina Pazsitzy and Tom Segura’s podcast Your Mother’s Home to debate how he was shunned by Hollywood after a girl accused him of rape and several other others revealed cannibalistic fantasies he had shared with them.
Through the interview, Hammer claimed that the timing of the scandal made it appears extra consequential than it was. “The world appeared prefer it was falling aside, and other people had been simply deeply sad with their very own lives,” he mentioned of the story, which broke throughout Covid. “After which this salacious story comes round the place this actor needs to homicide and eat individuals. And hastily, everybody’s like, ‘Oh, that is a lot extra enjoyable to deal with than the truth that I can’t depart my lounge.’ After which tales saved popping out and saved popping out and saved popping out.”
Hammer additionally mentioned a number of of his exchanges with girls had been taken out of context, though he acknowledged that he does have sexual fantasies about tying girls up.
“I like the concept that you’re so fully mine,” Hammer famous. “Yeah. I can do no matter I would like, and also you like it as a result of you understand you’re mine. And, like, this possession kinda factor, like, that’s simply enjoyable to speak about. And, by the way in which, particularly in the event you’re, like, drunk or stoned or excessive at evening and also you’re texting. And when you’re saying it, you’re, like, chuckling to your self, like, ‘I’m gonna fucking reduce your toe off and hold it in my pocket so I obtained a chunk of you in all places I’m going,’ ha ha ha.”
He added, “If anybody took anybody’s bed room conversations — particularly, like, if individuals had been having somewhat little bit of attractive time — they usually took the shit that they mentioned, even when it was fully vanilla, and also you learn that someplace else out of context, everybody’s gonna go, ‘You guys are fucking disgusting.’”
On the time, Hammer mentioned he was “in full panic mode” as a result of everybody started turning in opposition to him within the press and the general public. “I imply, to get somewhat bit severe right here, there was this kind of, like, there was the masks that I didn’t actually establish with, however everybody thought was me, that that grew to become kind of like my security web and identification,” he informed the podcast hosts. “After which when that will get shattered and everybody goes, ‘We not like this man. We fucking hate him.’ Which is tough.”
He continued, “I imply, dude, there can be articles in, like, The Punjabi Instances about how I used to be a cannibal and all that stuff. And I believe in March of 2021, like, I used to be the, like, fifth most-searched individual on Google on the planet. And all of it was damaging. You’re simply left standing there bare in entrance of the world with all your proclivities or kinks being judged by the world. That shit is hard.”
Through the interview, Hammer confirmed that he has been contemplating his actions. “There are features of my conduct that I believe had been coming from possibly not the healthiest place,” he mentioned. “Then there have been features of my conduct that had been simply expressions of my very own sexuality. So I needed to kind of, like, comb by all of that and work out what’s coming from the fitting place, what’s coming from a trauma place.” He added, “I believe someplace deep down, subconsciously, I wished to get caught.”
Hammer recently announced his personal podcast, which he mentioned he’s recording from his “tiny-ass condo,” and can return to appearing in Frontier Crucible, which he lately shot with William H. Macy. “I wouldn’t say I’m again,” he mentioned. “[But] I’m working.” Hammer’s podcast, The Armie HammerTime Podcast, has been described as a discussion board the place he “sits down with extraordinary individuals from all walks of life as he rebuilds his personal.”
