Armie Hammer Reflects On How 'Bizarre' Cannibalism Accusations Killed His Career
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Various women have accused of the actor of sexual abuse and coercion.
Armie Hammer is speaking out about the personal scandal that sent his life into a spiral three years ago.
“People called me a cannibal, and everyone believed them,” the actor said on an episode of the “Painful Lessons” podcast released Sunday. “They’re like, ‘Yup, that guy ate people.’”
“Like, what? What are you talking about? Do you know what you have to do to be a cannibal?” he added. “You have to eat people! How am I going to be a cannibal? It was bizarre.”
In 2021, the actor was embroiled in controversy after multiple women accused him of sexual abuse and coercion, and shared private messages where someone alleged to be Hammer expressed an interest in cannibalism and other sadistic fetishes.
Hammer denied the accusations of rape and physical abuse through his lawyers, calling the sexual encounters in question “completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory.”