Armie Hammer launches podcast, admits he ‘kind of likes’ cannibalism claims

Armie Hammer has returned to the spotlight with a caller podcast and isn’t shying distant from discussing his controversial past.

On the archetypal occurrence of “Armie HammerTime,” which dropped Monday, the embattled histrion addressed the allegations of cannibalism and intersexual abuse that torpedoed his career.

“It’s wild,” helium told impermanent Tom Arnold. “I’m not going to lie, I benignant of similar the cannibal worldly now.”

The “Call Be My Your Name” prima was astatine the halfway of maltreatment and misconduct accusations successful 2021 erstwhile respective women came guardant to stock details astir their romanticist and intersexual relationships with him.

In aboriginal 2021, an anonymous Instagram relationship released unverified substance messages allegedly claiming Hammer harbored cannibalistic fantasies. The aforesaid pistillate aboriginal came guardant saying he “violently” raped her for hours successful 2017.

Other erstwhile girlfriends made similar accusations of mental, affectional and carnal abuse, each of which Hammer denied.

Due to deficiency of capable grounds during a consequent investigation, Los Angeles prosecutors chose not to prosecute charges against the actor.

“The accusations are the happening that marque truthful overmuch noise,” Hammer elaborated connected the podcast. “Like, what makes much noise? ‘Armie Hammer is simply a cannibal’ oregon ‘Armie Hammer mightiness not beryllium a cannibal?’ The cannibal happening makes much sound and you don’t get an apology circuit successful this world. Like, idiosyncratic says thing astir you, everyone believes it, and they determination connected with their lives to immoderate it is they’re focused on, due to the fact that they’ve got their ain lives.”

Amid the controversies, Hammer’s woman filed for divorce, helium exited high-profile projects and helium aboriginal checked into an unnamed Florida installation to seek attraction for drug, intoxicant and enactment issues.

“When thing similar this happens, we bash each this enactment connected ourselves, not truthful that we tin get the jobs backmost but truthful that we don’t attraction if we get the jobs back,” helium told Arnold. “I deliberation that’s wherever I consciousness similar I americium now.”

In an Instagram video connected Monday, Hammer said the podcast — filmed successful a rent-controlled building  connected a $150 sofa purchased done Facebook Marketplace — volition diagnostic “long-form, absorbing conversations with radical who person tools oregon skills oregon person acquired wisdom… that I don’t cognize [and] I privation to learn.”

“Some of you are going to emotion this, and immoderate of you are going to f—ing hatred it,” helium added. “The archetypal thought of the podcast was benignant of the conception that implicit the people of a time each azygous idiosyncratic you interact with knows astatine slightest 1 happening that you don’t. So, thatch maine what that 1 happening is.”