Armie Hammer is breaking his silence after scandal.
The 39-year-old Call Me By Your Name actor spoke out in a new interview for The Hollywood Reporter, out now.
If you didn’t know, in 2021, several women came forward with claims of psychological and sexual abuse against the actor, and graphic text messages circulated online, allegedly sent from Armie, that included cannibalism fantasies. A woman who he’d had an affair with amid his marriage to ex Elizabeth Chambers also accused him of rape. He denied the allegations while settling his divorce, and a LAPD investigation into the matter closed without charges.
Find out what Armie Hammer had to say…
On reading the comments online about him:
“There was a period where I was obsessively reading what people were saying. And then it hit critical mass, and I thought: There is no nutritional value in this for me. This is almost not even the real world…I realized I could just focus on myself and my kids and staying healthy and growing as a person. You can make that your purpose.”
On his father Michael Hammer wanting to go to war with Armie’s accusers:
“He was furious. ‘I’m going to call this person, I’m going to do this, we have to make sure they know this.’ He really wanted to go on the offensive. I said: ‘Look, dude, I’m already on the cross. The nails are in my hands. I’m not getting off this cross no matter what we do. And the more I struggle, the longer I’m going to be up here.’”
On not getting any money from his father’s estate after he died:
“It’s just one of those things that’s so complicated, you have to be a tax attorney to fully understand it. But the end result was not I’m set for the rest of my life, or even for the next couple of years. It hasn’t been that.”
On ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers, and reports that she had a role in the fallout of his career:
“It doesn’t help my situation to make it worse for somebody else to try to save my own a–. And all I’m doing is making something worse for someone who was for a long time the sole breadwinner of the family. If I disrupt that, it’s my kids who suffer.”
On how he was living before the scandal:
“I used to call myself a consumer. Drinks, women, validation, experiences — I just wanted to consume. All of it. More, more, more. I didn’t actually know how to give myself what I needed internally, so I relied on external sources. It’s like a black hole — no matter how much you throw in, it’s gone. You’re never going to fill up a black hole.”
“I had a bit of imposter syndrome. I was like, ‘I don’t really belong here, but it seems like I’m here — so maybe I’ll have a martini, that’ll make me feel better about the fact that I’m here.’ “
On the support of his gay friends, and his leaked texts:
“They were like, ‘Bitch, you think you’re special? If the Grindr chats got released and someone hacked into those, no one would have a job.’ And, by the way, if you’re sitting up in your room late at night high as s–t just going, ‘This is f–king hilarious. I’m being funny now’ — you take that s–t out of context, then you’re done.”
On his own innocence:
“I made these problems for myself. This didn’t happen to me by a fluke accident. I didn’t do what people are saying I did. But I brought very dangerous and unsafe people into my life, and I pissed off people in my life — and here we are.”
On the chaos of his scandal, and the hurdle of restoring his public image:
“It’s like Sisyphus pushing the boulder, except my boulder is covered in Vaseline.”
On getting an offer from Uwe Boll to star in Citizen Vigilante, his first offer in five years:
“I’m pretty sure I cried. It was just this moment where I was like: I’m going to get to do the thing that I love more than anything — other than my children. I would have done a f–king cat food commercial. I just wanted to work again.”
On being worried he forgot to act:
“I was scared s–tless until the moment Uwe said action for the first time. And then I was like — ‘Wait. I do know how to do this.’ There’s a reason I had the success I had.”
On whether he’d wish for the scandal not to have happened:
“Honestly, no. I remember the emotional state and the mental state I was in before all that happened. Healthy people don’t act the way I was acting. I would have loved if I could have had an opportunity to do it in a little bit more of a gentle way. But at the end of the day — you get what you get.”
For more, head to THR.com.
He was also spotted out and about recently after largely staying out of the spotlight.
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