2021 is already serving up a heaping helping of celebrity scandal. If any actor is in danger
of being cancelled this year, it's this star of The Social Network. But why? Watch along
as we break down the seriously shady side of Armie Hammer.
Armie Hammer made headlines for all the wrong reasons in January 2021 when a series of graphic
Instagram DMs he allegedly sent to various partners appeared online. According to the
Daily Mail and other outlets, the not-safe-for-work exchanges took place between 2016 and 2020
and were first published via an Instagram account called House of Effie, which has since
gone private.
Hammer allegedly wrote in some of the many disturbing messages, "I need to drink your
blood" and "I need your blood. I crave it."
As the outlet reports, House Of Effie also shared a photo reportedly sent by Hammer,
which allegedly shows his hand, complete with his very distinct ring finger tattoo, which
seems to prove the DMs are legit.
Amongst the messages, one screenshot appears to show Hammer telling a woman he was fantasizing
about holding her heart in his hands and controlling when it beats before saying,
"I am 100% a cannibal. I want to eat you."
He also made the shocking claim that he had, quote, "cut the heart out of a living animal
before and eaten it while still warm."
Hammer refused to respond to the claims specifically, but decided to drop out of filming the movie
Shotgun Wedding opposite Jennifer Lopez. In a statement released announcing the decision,
he said,
"In light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience
now leave my children for 4 months to shoot a film."
In addition to stories of cannibalism, the alleged text messages also sparked allegations
of abuse. In one DM, Hammer allegedly boasted about an encounter in which he held a knife
against his partner and, quote, "felt like a god." He allegedly wrote,
"You crying and screaming, me standing over you [...] I've never felt such power or intensity."
In another alleged exchange, the actor appeared to tell one of his partners (which he reportedly
calls "kittens"),
"I'd chase you down and pounce on you so fast if you tried to walk away [...] You'll need
something strong to hold me back from you."
Meanwhile, yet another screenshot reveals Hammer allegedly threatening to behead someone,
quote, "If for some reason something goes wrong and my wife finds out."
Many of the accusers initially maintained anonymity. They have since shared additional
details about their alleged relationships with Hammer, with one tweeting,
"'Kink stuff' doesn't include murder fantasies, or dangerous knife games."
Another alleged lingering damage from the relationship, saying,
"I never wanted to be in a relationship with him. But because of him, I could not be in
a relationship with someone else."
Meanwhile, writer Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, who sparked dating rumors with Hammer in September
2020, weighed in on Twitter, writing,
"If you are still questioning whether or not those Armie Hammer DMs are real (and they
are) maybe you should start questioning why we live in a culture willing to give abusers
the benefit of the doubt instead of victims."
Armie Hammer didn't shy away from sharing his deepest bedroom fantasies in a 2013 interview
with Playboy, nor did he have any qualms talking about his most intimate moments with his wife.
He told the outlet that he used to enjoy being a, quote, "dominant lover," describing more
physical activities like grabbing his partner's neck or pulling their hair. But he then proclaimed
that his tastes changed after getting, quote, "married to a feminist." He said,
"You get married and your sexual appetites change. And I mean that for the better — it's
not like I'm suffering in any way. But you can't really pull your wife's hair. It gets
to a point where you say, 'I respect you too much to do these things that I kind of want
to do.'"
Those comments quickly made headlines, forcing Hammer into some awkward backpedaling. He
later said in an interview with E!,
"Let's just say hindsight is 20/20. Don't drink during an interview."
The star apparently never explained another eyebrow-raising bedroom confession he made
to Elle that same month. He told that publication, quote, "One chick tried to stab me when we
were having sex," before adding that he, quote, "should so not be telling this story." He
then proceeded to tell it anyway, saying,
"She was like, 'True love leaves scars. You don't have any.' And then she tried to stab
me with a butcher knife. Of course I promptly broke up with her. Seven months later."
A secret Instagram account allegedly belonging to Armie Hammer leaked in January 2021 and,
as Page Six reported, it was filled with questionable posts — everything from bondage memes to
a screenshot of a court order mandating he take a drug test before visiting his children
in the Cayman Islands, where they've been living with Hammer's now-ex-wife since the
pandemic began.
In the caption for the latter, the actor allegedly joked,
"All negative, bitches. My body is a finely tuned toxicant processing unit. To be fair
I had THC and benzos in my piss. But who doesn't."
Using the handle @el_destructo_86, Hammer also reportedly lamented having to go to the
Cayman Islands to see his kids. But there was one "silver lining," as put it, to the
arrangement, suggesting that he was looking forward to hooking up with an unnamed "Ms.
Cayman" during his visit.
According to Page Six, the proclamation was accompanied by a "racy shot," which prompted
the actual Miss Cayman Islands organization to say it was "very disturbed" and clarify
that whomever Hammer was referring to,
"...The woman is not the reigning Miss Cayman Islands and has no affiliation to the Miss
Cayman Islands Universe pageant."
Hammer appeared to take ownership of the account when he told the Cayman Compass,
"I would like to clarify that the person in my video, which was stolen from my private
Instagram, is not Miss Cayman. I am genuinely sorry for any confusion my foolish attempt
at humor may have caused."
Armie Hammer's wife of ten years, Elizabeth Chambers, filed for divorce from Hammer in
July 2020. The actor was forced to deal with his split in tandem with the coronavirus pandemic,
and it seems the stress may have gotten the best of him.
The actor's social media followers will have noticed some strange behavior since March
2020, including the time he showed up in Central Park to recite poetry -- he chose Wendy Cope's
"Valentine" -- or when he uploaded an Instagram video of himself shirtless, mustachioed, and
chugging a can of beer before driving a golf ball — all set to The Temptations' "Papa
Was a Rollin' Stone." His equally bizarre caption for the clip?
"When the world is ending but you already have come to terms with the fact that this
current time is ruled by chaos."
In January 2021, he tweeted about a lesson he learned during physiotherapy, writing,
"The human body is crazy. When you hurt your body, sometimes the best medicine is to just
have another human being rub their human body against your human body."
The timing was less than ideal, and the sentiment didn't sit well with everyone. As one Twitter
user pleaded,
"Cancel Armie Hammer for this tweet alone please."
No stranger to making headline-worthy confessions during interviews, Armie Hammer caught Elle
writer Jessica Pressler off-guard in 2013 when he unapologetically opened up about a
violent altercation he said he had with a homeless man.
Hammer recalled how, while he was in Australia, a person he described as a "homeless guy"
tried to stab him, so he, quote, "punched him and stole his knife." Pressler couldn't
help but seek clarification, to which Hammer simply responded,
"He started it."
Explaining that the man had mistaken him for someone who owed him money, Hammer continued,
pantomiming the punch and saying,
"I took his knife. Because he would have tried to stab somebody else! He was obviously crazy."
The Social Network star, then 26, went on to say that partner Elizabeth Chambers didn't
condone his behavior, noting,
"My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response,
like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.' But she says it's okay, because your frontal lobe
doesn't fully develop until around 30, so I have until then to get all this s--- out
of my system and then I need to calm down."
It was January 2012 when TMZ learned that Hammer had been arrested in Sierra Blanca,
Texas in November 2011 after a drug-sniffing dog at a border checkpoint led officers to
find three pot cookies and a pot brownie in his belongings. Hammer was arrested for marijuana
possession and spent the day behind bars before paying the $1,000 bond to set himself free.
Not surprisingly, people wanted to know more, but Hammer remained tight-lipped. Speaking
with TMZ, he brushed it off, saying,
"There's a million sides to every story. I can't go into it. In 90 days, I can go into
it, and I'll tell you all about it. I think Texas is one of those places where you don't
want to mess around, period, with anything."
But after 90 days, he still avoided the topic. When Conan O'Brien asked about the bust in
2013, Hammer offered an oblique explanation for his brush with the law.
"There was a misunderstanding of laws and interstate laws versus state laws and apparently
federal laws..."
Armie Hammer ran quite the naughty business as a kid. Sitting down on The Late Late Show
in 2017, the actor told host James Corden that he used to sell Playboys to his middle
school classmates, as well as something extra: small bottles of lotion, like the kind you'd
get at a hotel.
"It sounds so much worse when you say it out loud! But in my head it wasn't that bad. I
was just an entrepreneur."
His entrepreneurial endeavor quickly went bust, however.
"After lunch, somehow I get called into the, like, the principal's office and they're like,
'We hear that you're selling Playboy magazines.'"
Hammer recalled that he denied the whole thing to school authorities, but an immediate locker
search ensued. Ever the forward-thinker, Hammer noted he had "a weird feeling something like
this would happen," so he kept his stashes divided, stuffing the not-safe-for-school
mags in plastic bags and hiding them in the bushes outside of the school.
He did, however, have a suspiciously large cache of lotion in his locker. His response
when questioned about all those little bottles?
"I was like, 'I get dry hands, thank you very much."
When Inquirer.net asked Armie Hammer if his good looks have ever gotten in the way of
getting meatier roles as a performer, the actor had quite the surprising answer. Rather
than brushing off the question, he appeared to embrace it, telling the magazine,
"I feel like there's nothing I can really do about it. No, there's nothing anyone can
do about physical appearances. I mean, we look like what we look like, and it's just
about coming to terms with it and accepting it."
The Gossip Girl alum went on to add that he "really loves it" when he's approached with
interesting roles, gushing,
"I love it when I get asked to play weird or complicated characters."
But despite his apparent desire to take on beefier parts, Hammer told Vulture how he's
mostly winged it on-set. Recalling shooting Call Me by Your Name, he admitted that director
Luca Guadagnino had to confront him about his approach. He revealed,
"My whole life, I'm bluffing my way through it all and Luca was just like, 'Nope, that
doesn't work around here' — which was terrifying."
He also once complained about the difficulties of filming, telling Elle,
"It's 18 hours on your feet, doing s---, and then you get a couple of hours of sleep and
you wake up and do it again. But it feels good. I love this way too much to turn it
into work."
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