Hollywood actor makes huge comeback 3 years after ‘abuse and cannibalism’ accusations

Armie Hammer has announced a career comeback after a bid of damaging accusations were made against him 3 years ago.

The 38-year-old was astatine the tallness of his fame – champion known for starring successful Death connected the Nile and Call Me By Your Name – erstwhile helium was accused of ‘rape, affectional maltreatment and violence’ by aggregate women successful 2021, which helium denied.

It was besides claimed Hammer had a ‘fetish for cannibalism’, arsenic women claimed helium made comments astir wanting to ‘take a bite’ retired of their assemblage parts. He vehemently denied these accusations, antecedently branding them ‘outlandish’ and ‘bizarre’ connected an occurrence of the Painful Lessons podcast.

Hammer has not worked successful the manufacture since Death connected the Nile successful 2022, and soon aft the allegations helium checked himself into rehab for drug, intoxicant and enactment issues, and helium was dropped by his agency, and removed from upcoming projects.

In a lengthy interrogation successful 2023, Hammer denied immoderate transgression wrongdoings including the ‘sexual maltreatment and rape’ claims – maintaining each his intersexual encounters person been consensual – but did admit helium was ‘one cardinal per cent’ emotionally abusive to them.

Now, Hammer is making a large instrumentality to screens, arsenic helium posted a photograph of him successful Western movie Frontier Crucible, and captioned the photo: ‘Back successful the saddle.’

The film, directed by Travis Mills and starring Thomas Jane, follows an ex-soldier haunted by his past arsenic helium links up with outlaws to navigate the Arizona frontier successful the 1870s.

It came days aft helium announced helium was launching a podcast titled Armie HammerTime, which helium billed arsenic a ‘chronicling of putting my beingness backmost together”’ with comedian and histrion Tom Arnold confirmed arsenic his archetypal guest.

In 2021, Hammer’s lawyers issued a connection to Metro denying the allegations that helium ‘violently raped’ a pistillate named ‘Effie’ successful 2017.

‘Effie’ claimed she archetypal met the histrion connected Facebook successful 2016 and they had an on-off narration betwixt 2016 and 2020.

In a property league alongside high-profile US lawyer Gloria Allred, ‘Effie’ alleged she was ‘violently assaulted’ for 4 hours, with the Social Network histrion repeatedly ‘hitting her caput against a wall’.

Reading from a prepared statement, ‘Effie’ said: ‘I thought helium was going to termination me’, adding that Hammer past ‘left with nary interest for my good being.’

Hammer’s ineligible squad said their correspondence ‘undermines and refutes’ her claims, and argued that she sent graphic texts to Hammer ‘telling him what she wanted him to bash to her’.

‘Mr. Hammer responded making it wide that helium did not privation to support that benignant of narration with her. The screenshot beneath is conscionable 1 of hundreds [she] sent to Mr. Hammer,’ they said.

Initially, accusations surfaced online via screenshots of nonstop messages which were claimed to person been sent by Hammer.

Hammer denied the online claims, arsenic helium was trending connected societal media, labelling them ‘bullsh*t’ and ‘vicious’.

None of the messages alleged to person been sent by Hammer were verified.

In a statement, Hammer detailed to Deadline: ‘I’m not responding to these bulls**t claims but successful airy of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot successful bully conscience present permission my children for 4 months to sprout a movie successful the Dominican Republic.

‘Lionsgate is supporting maine successful this and I’m grateful to them for that.’

A accumulation spokesperson added: ‘Given the imminent commencement day of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to measurement distant from the movie and we enactment him successful his decision.’

In May 2023, the intersexual battle charges against Hammer were dropped after an investigation. 

‘As prosecutors, we person an ethical work to lone complaint cases that we tin beryllium beyond a tenable doubt,’ work a connection by the DA bureau seen by Variety.

The connection went connected to adhd that ‘due to the complexity of the narration and inability to beryllium a non-consensual, forcible intersexual brushwood we are incapable to beryllium the lawsuit beyond a tenable doubt,’ and would not beryllium going guardant with the case.

In 2023, Hammer’s divorcement from his wife and mother of his children, Elizabeth Chambers, was confirmed aft the brace initially divided successful 2020. 

The histrion was engaged to 26-year-old IT Consultant Marina Gris, but successful January 2024 it was announced that the engagement was called off.

In a June podcast quality connected Painful Lessons, Hammer said helium was ‘grateful’ for the accusations, successful hindsight.

‘There were things that radical were saying astir maine that conscionable felt truthful outlandish,’ he said.

‘Yeah that I was a cannibal, present I’m benignant of capable to look astatine it with a consciousness of region and position and beryllium like, “That’s hilarious.” People called maine a cannibal and everyone believed them. 

‘They were similar “yep, that feline ate people.” Like what? What are you talking about? Do you cognize what you person to bash to beryllium a cannibal? You person to devour people! How americium I going to beryllium a cannibal?! Like, it was bizarre.’

‘But here’s what I volition accidental astir it. Even successful the discrepancies, successful immoderate it was that radical said, immoderate it was that happened, I’m present successful a spot successful my beingness wherever I’m grateful for each azygous spot of it.’

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