From becoming one of the most sought-after actors in hollywood to work as a concierge in a hotel in the Cayman Islands. Thus, overnight, the life of Armie Hammer was completely transformed after a series of accusations on social networks about his predilection for BDSM and cannibal fetishes.
However, her situation worsened when a social media user, known as Effie, accused Hammer of rape in 2021. The woman, who had been in a casual relationship with the actor for four years, made a police report and claimed that he had abused her during an intimate encounter in 2017. She also shared screenshots of messages allegedly sent by Hammer via an anonymous Instagram account. In one of those messages, the interpreter defined himself as a cannibal.
The case took an unexpected turn when the woman known as Effie refused to sign a statement that put her at risk of perjury for her accusations. It was as a result of this situation that the police decided not to file charges against Hammer and the investigation did not continue.
Now, with his acting career over, Armie Hammer broke the silence through the podcast Painful Lessons, hosted by his friend Tyler Ramsey. During the conversation, the actor call me by your name admits his promiscuous lifestyle, which was combined with alcohol and drug addiction.
Without escaping controversies, Hammer referred to the accusations of cannibalism against him. “People called me a cannibal and everyone believed it,” said the 37-year-old former performer. “Now I can look at it with a sense of distance and perspective and say, ‘That’s really funny.’ They said, ‘Yeah, that guy ate people.’ What? What are you talking about? You know what you have to say?” What to do to be a cannibal? You have to eat people! … It was strange,” he said.
When the first accusations arose, Hammer said that “it was the death of my ego, a professional death… A neutron bomb exploded in my life. It ended [todo]”.
During the talk, Hammer talked about his time in the Cayman Islands and how he began to have suicidal thoughts. “There were many times when I thought, ‘I can’t take this anymore.’ And I reached very low, dark points,” he said. “I was standing on the shore and I looked out at the ocean and I thought, ‘Yeah, this is it,’ and I swam far away… and I was lying there… [en] a half-hearted suicide attempt. … [Pero pensé] “I can’t do that to my children.”
Before all this broke out, Hammer He claims that he did not feel well and that he was never satisfied with his life. And that it was his work as an actor that had validated him in a certain sense.
Hammer knows that his career in hollywood It is finished, but she will try to return by writing a new script on which she is working with a friend named Jerry.
In 2020, Hammer He eventually divorced his wife Elizabeth, with whom he shares two small children. In 2023 it was reported that the actor was completely bankrupt after the accusations against him that it was Robert Downey Jr. who helped him, giving him financial help and giving him a place to stay. That same year, the police dropped the investigation due to insufficient evidence against him.
