Armie Hammer opened up about the slew of accusations he faced in 2021 and beyond, and said he's “grateful for every bit of it” in a new episode of the series. painful lessons podcast.
“I'm actually in a place now where I'm really grateful for it, because where I was in my life before all those things happened to me: I didn't feel good,” he said. call me by your name detailed star. “I never felt satisfied; I never had enough; I was never in a place where I was happy with myself, where I had self-esteem. I never knew how to give myself love. “I never knew how to validate myself, but I had this job where I was able to get it from so many people that I never had to learn how to give it to myself.”
In fact, he's apparently so grateful for the experience that he hopes others will experience something similar, albeit on a smaller scale.
“I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but for the people in my life that I really love, I hope some version happens to them, preferably smaller than what I went through, so they can learn everything I learned. I have learned”.
Hammer first faced controversy in early 2021 after an anonymous Instagram user posted screenshots that appeared to show the actor fantasizing about various extreme BDSM sex acts, including “slave” kink and cannibalism. While he initially called the allegations “nonsense” and “patently false,” additional allegations of abuse and rape continued to pile up.
In the following years, Hammer was removed from several projects and a three-part documentary titled Hammer House was produced and released on Discovery+. Notably, he also reappeared in 2022, selling timeshares at a hotel in the Cayman Islands.
“I did something wrong. I engaged in behaviors that were not acceptable,” he said in response to the accusations, “and I paid a price. Was that price I paid disproportionate to my behaviors? I think so. But does that change the fact that my behaviors were bad and do I have to take responsibility for it? No.”
However, in response to the cannibal accusations, Hammer laughed them off. “There were things people said about me that seemed very outlandish,” he said. “Now I can look at it with a sense of distance and perspective and say, 'That's really funny.' People called me a cannibal and everyone believed them… What!? What are you talking about? Do you know what you have to do to be a cannibal? You have to eat people.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Hammer briefly alluded to dealing with sexual abuse as a child, feelings of suicidal ideation, working on new scripts and his plans for when he will tell his “truth.” You can watch Hammer's full podcast appearance below.
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