Armie Hammer has damaged his silence concerning a collection of accusations that upended his profession two years in the past, talking to a author for the e-newsletter Air Mail. A number of girls {accused} Hammer of abuse in 2021. Within the fallout, his spouse Elizabeth Chambers, from whom he had been separated, filed for divorce (although it has not been finalized), and he exited from a number of initiatives, together with Shotgun Marriage ceremony and The Provide. Within the new interview, Hammer describes his monetary standing as, “I’m not solely broke; I’m massively in debt.”
Within the interview, he says that, “I used to be an asshole, that I used to be egocentric, that I used individuals to make me really feel higher, and after I was finished, moved on,” and additional acknowledged an influence imbalance between himself, a well-known actor, and a collection of youthful girls, however he denies allegations of rape and sexual abuse. He claims that he and one accuser have been engaged in acts of “consensual non-consent” actions, through which they role-played rape eventualities.
In response to TMZ, the Los Angeles Police Division allegedly accomplished a nine-month investigation right into a rape allegation in opposition to Hammer in December. (The LAPD didn’t reply to request for remark earlier than deadline; this story might be up to date within the occasion of a response.)
Two years in the past, Julie Miller chronicled the allegations in opposition to Hammer in addition to his household’s historical past of scandal and abuse, for Self-importance Truthful. Hammer’s aunt, Casey Hammer, lately appeared in a documentary, “Home of Hammer,” on Discovery+, through which she particulars her personal allegations of “multigenerational abuse.”
The fees in opposition to Hammer and his household historical past “would make a charming movie,” writes James Kirchick for Airmail, “although an excessive amount of dramatic license could be needed.”
Within the Airmail interview, Hammer says that he was repeatedly sexually abused on the age of 13 by a youth pastor. He added that the expertise “launched sexuality into my life in a means that it was utterly out of my management.” “I used to be powerless within the state of affairs. I had no company within the state of affairs,” Hammer advised Airmail. “My pursuits then went to: I wish to have management within the state of affairs, sexually.”
He stated that he was suicidal when the accusations got here out. “I simply walked out into the ocean and swam out so far as I might and hoped that both I drowned,” he advised Airmail, “or was hit by a ship, or eaten by a shark.”
He compares his troubles to these of Robert Downey Jr., who reportedly helped Hammer pay for therapy following the accusations.
“There’s examples of people that went by means of actually tough instances and skilled what [the author] Joseph Campbell would name ‘the hero’s demise.’ And the hero should die so the hero will be reborn once more,” Hammer tells Airmail. “The minute anybody does something incorrect, they’re thrown away. There’s no probability for rehabilitation. There’s no probability for redemption. Somebody makes a mistake, and we throw them away like a damaged disposable digicam. Robert and others are examples of what it appears to be like like for a human being to expertise ache after which development. And that facet of it’s one thing that I aspire to.” (Downey didn’t remark to Airmail, nor did Hammer’s accusers. The story publicly names one of many girls who has not but been recognized by different press. Self-importance Truthful has reached out to Downey for remark.)
Hammer says his profession is collateral harm in a higher reckoning. “Nobody will rent me. Nobody will insure me. I can’t get bonded for a challenge—nothing,” the Man From U.N.C.L.E. actor stated. “And nobody will contact me as a result of in the event that they rent me, then they’re the individuals who assist abusers. After which they’re liable to get canceled themselves as a result of this fireplace that’s burning itself by means of city—once they throw somebody like me on the hearth to guard themselves, what they don’t notice is going on is all they’re doing is making the hearth larger. And that fireplace is now uncontrolled and it’s going to burn everybody. And so they’re simply frequently throwing individuals on it as sacrifices to guard themselves.”
