Armie Hammer Has a Weird Way of Reflecting on Horrific, Career-Ending Accusations

There are often actors who feel forced upon us. They pop up in project after project, often as a lead, even though there’s nothing special about them. There will be a superhero franchise built around them. You’ll begin seeing them on every talk show. This will happen in a coordinated blitz, even if the results aren’t what the actor or their team would like. Armie Hammer is one of these actors.

There was a time when Hammer was a hot property in Hollywood. His double role in The Social Network began his journey into “actor forced upon us” territory. Even before that, he was going to play Batman in George Miller’s Justice League film that never was. Hammer was the kind of tall, straight, white guy that Hollywood loves, and that was (mostly) working out for him.

Hammer was accused of sexual and emotional abuse by two different women in 2021. Part of the abuse claims included both women saying that Hammer made references to eating or consuming them. Ole Armie sunk faster than his Lone Ranger franchise. He was dropped from several movies and ended up selling timeshares (which, to be fair, is what I’d prefer s***ty celebrities do when they are kicked from the club). Now, Hammer is back and is totally cool with the whole thing.

The actor, who cameoed as himself in the Entourage movie, appeared on the Painful Lessons podcast. While chatting, the accusations came up (as they should in every conversation he has). “Whatever it was that people said, whatever it was that happened, I’m now at a place in my life where I’m grateful for every single bit of it,” Hammer said. If you think that’s a weird way to reflect on horrific accusations that crater your career, I agree!

Armie Hammer elaborated, saying, “I’m actually now at a place where I’m really grateful for it because where I was in my life before all of that stuff happened to me, I didn’t feel good. I never felt satisfied. I never had enough. I never was 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 give myself self-validation, 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.”

See? He found himself thanks to someone accusing him of saying he wanted to cook and eat one of her ribs. Hammer spoke to the cannibal accusations specifically. “People called me a cannibal. Like I ate people! What???? You know what you have to do to be a cannibal? You have to eat people,” Armie explained. “It was an ego death, a career death. A neutron bomb went off in my life. It killed off [everything].”

Despite feeling “grateful” for the turn in his life, Hammer claims he did not take the accusations and the response to them well. “There were a lot of times when I thought, ‘I can’t take this anymore,’” said the actor. “I was getting hate … so it just went right in … there was a time I was standing at the shore and I swam out really far and just laying there … a half-assed suicide attempt … But I thought I couldn’t do that to my kids.”

Hammer says he is now writing a screenplay, hoping to play in his “own sandbox.” Given how quickly “canceled” men worm their way back into their dream jobs and/or society as a whole, we could be seeing Hammer’s screenplay produced, filmed, and up on Tubi in three to four years.