Armie Hammer claims he was sexually abused by a youth pastor

As informed to Air Mail, Hammer mentioned a youth pastor at his household church sexually abused him for a 12 months when he was 13-years-old.

Hammer tried to hyperlink his childhood trauma to his predilections for BDSM. He mentioned, “What that did for me was it introduced sexuality into my life in a way that it was completely out of my control.

“I was powerless in the situation. I had no agency in the situation. My interests then went to: I want to have control in the situation, sexually.”

Hammer mentioned he informed his dad and mom that the pastor made him uncomfortable – however didn’t element the abuse – and was rebuffed by his household for calling into query the integrity of “a man of god”.

Hammer mentioned the abuse had set a “dangerous precedent” however denied that his should be sexually in management equated to a violent nature.

He defined to Air Mail, “The whole point of this is mutual pleasure. If you’re engaged in some sort of sexual act with someone and they’re not enjoying themselves, for me, I’m not enjoying myself.”

Hammer has been persona non grata within the public sphere ever since allegations of sexual abuse have been levelled in opposition to him by a number of ladies.

Leaked textual content messages describing his fantasies involving rape situations and cannibalism have been adopted by accusations of precise rape. Hammer has denied any felony wrongdoing.

In the fallout, he was dropped from a number of high-profile tasks together with the Jennifer Lopez rom-com Shotgun Wedding and political miniseries Gaslit.

He was additionally marginalised in productions he had already filmed, comparable to Death on the Nile, the place he was just about invisible within the movie’s trailer and wasn’t featured on any particular person character posters within the film’s advertising and marketing.

A 3-part documentary sequence, House of Hammer, detailed a historical past of alleged poor behaviour by Hammer and his household, a rich clan enriched by oil cash.

His spouse, Elizabeth Chambers, had filed for divorce months earlier than the allegations got here to gentle.

Hammer complained to Air Mail that he was not in a position to be employed within the leisure trade.

“No one will hire me,” he mentioned. “No one will insure me. I can’t get bonded for a project – nothing. And no one will touch me because if they hire me, then they are the people who support abusers.

“And then they’re liable to get cancelled themselves because this fire that is burning itself through town – when they throw someone like me on the fire to protect themselves, what they don’t realise is happening is all they’re doing is making the fire bigger.

“And that fire is out of control and it’s going to burn everyone. And they’re just continually throwing people on it as sacrifices to protect themselves.”

The actor who had his large break on David Fincher’s The Social Network claimed the scandal had value him between $US14 million and $US16 million in authorized charges and misplaced work, and needed to have a buddy assist him purchase groceries.

“I am not only broke, I am massively in debt,” he complained.

In 2022, Hammer was photographed working as a salesman for a property firm within the Cayman Islands. He mentioned he wasn’t working there and wasn’t being paid for it.

Hammer informed Air Mail that within the aftermath of the allegations in opposition to him, he contemplated suicide however walked himself again. “I couldn’t do that to my kids.”

Hammer claimed that he was now a happier particular person after time spent in rehab for alcohol and drug abuse – paid for by Robert Downey Jr – and that he wouldn’t wind again the clock even when he may.

“I’m now a healthier, happier, more balanced person. I’m able to be there for my kids in a way I never was.

“I would not go back and undo everything that’s happened to me.”

Among the accusations in opposition to Hammer have been ladies who mentioned he repeatedly spoke of his need to interrupt their ribs and that he carved an “A” into one lady’s physique close to her genitalia.

One lady, Efrosina Angelova, claimed Hammer “violently raped” her for hours and slapped her head in opposition to a wall. Hammer has denied these allegations.

Hammer made one capitulation to his accusers, which was that the ability dynamics between him and them weren’t balanced.

“I would have these younger women in their mid-twenties and I’m in my thirties. I was a successful actor at the time. They could have been happy to just be with me and would have said yes to things that maybe they wouldn’t have said yes to on their own. That’s an imbalance of power.

“I’m here to own my mistakes, take accountability for the fact that I was an arsehole, that I was selfish, that I used people to make me feel better, and when I was done, moved on. And treated people more poorly than they should have been treated.”

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