Armie Hammer talks scandal, bad press, living in ‘tiny-ass apartment’

Armie Hammer is opening up about his life since leaving Hollywood in 2021 during the COVID pandemic.

“The world seemed like it was falling apart, and people were just deeply unhappy with their own lives,” Hammer speculated on a recent episode of Christina Pazsitzy and Tom Segura’s Your Mom’s House podcast. “And then this salacious story comes around where this actor wants to murder and eat people. And all of a sudden, everyone’s like, ‘Oh, this is so much more fun to focus on than the fact that I can’t leave my living room.'”

The first “salacious story” about Hammer came in January 2021, when he quit social media in the wake of several disturbing sexual assault allegations made against him. Hammer was accused of rape and “other acts of violence” two months later by ex Effie Angelova, whom he dated on and off for four years.

Further allegations and lawsuits followed, prompting Hammer to quit Hollywood and sell timeshares on the Cayman Islands for a brief stint. In May 2023, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not file sexual assault charges against the actor, citing “insufficient evidence” and the “complexity of the relationship” between the actor and his accuser.

Among the allegations made against Hammer were those that claimed the Call Me By Your Name actor harbors erotic cannibalistic fantasies. Discussing his sexuality, Hammer explained to Segura and Pazsitzy that he enjoys tying his partner up during intimate play: “I like the idea that you are so completely mine. Yeah. I can do whatever I want, and you love it because you know you’re mine.”

“This possession-kinda thing,” he continued, “that’s just fun to talk about. And by the way, especially if you’re drunk or stoned or high at night and you’re texting. While you’re saying it, you’re chuckling to yourself, like, ‘I’m gonna f—ing cut your toe off and keep it in my pocket so I got a piece of you everywhere I go.'”

Hammer feels that he’s been singled out for condemnation for his sexual proclivities.

“If anyone took anyone’s bedroom conversations — specifically if people were having a little bit of sexy time,” he said, “and they took the s— that they said, even if it was completely vanilla, and you read that somewhere else out of context, everyone’s gonna go, ‘You guys are f—ing disgusting.'”

The volume of texts and private-message threads that was published with the allegations made against Hammer exposed intimate thoughts and moments, an experience Hammer likens to being “left standing there naked in front of the world with all of your proclivities or kinks being judged by the world.”

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Now living in a self-described “tiny-ass apartment,” Hammer went on to psychoanalyze his sex drive (“people were my bags of dope with skin on it”); speculate why the women he was involved with may not hold him in high esteem (“I would scoop these girls up, take them on a whirlwind month and a half… then I’m gonna bounce and go do it with someone else”); and ponder the legacy of his actions on his own family (“I also am well aware that my daughter and son are gonna get to a certain point where they do therapy and then go, ‘I hate my dad, too'”).

Hammer briefly broke his Hollywood hiatus with a music video appearance in December that made light of the cannibalism allegations, and he will return to the big screen with the William H. Macy-starring Western Frontier Crucible.