Armie Hammer Opens Up About Career-Derailing Scandal, Sexual Kinks and His Life Now in a ‘Tiny-Ass Apartment'

• Armie Hammer was shunned by Hollywood after being accused of rape by one woman and sharing cannibalistic fantasies with others. He was investigated by the LAPD but ultimately was not charged

• In a new interview with podcast hosts Christina Pazsitzy and Tom Segura, he talks about the scandal, his sexual kinks and his life now

• Hammer also gives an update on his acting career: “I’m working”

Armie Hammer is getting candid about the scandal that cost him his acting career.

The disgraced Call Me By Your Name star — who was shunned by Hollywood after one woman accused him of rape and other women claimed he shared violent, cannibalistic fantasies with them — previously admitted to cheating on his then-wife Elizabeth Chambers, 42, but denied any wrongdoing. He was investigated for sexual assault by the LAPD but ultimately was not charged.

Now living in what he calls a “tiny-ass apartment,” while recording a podcast and staging a comeback, Hammer opened up to comedians Christina Pazsitzy and Tom Segura on the Jan. 1 episode of their podcast Your Mom’s House, reflecting on how his story captivated the public during the COVID-19 crisis.

“The world seemed like it was falling apart, and people were just deeply unhappy with their own lives. And then this salacious story comes around where this actor wants to murder and eat people. And all of a sudden, everyone's like, 'Oh, this is so much more fun to focus on than the fact that I can't leave my living room,'” said Hammer, who launched his own podcast in 2024 after selling timeshares in the Cayman Islands for a stint.

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“And then stories kept coming out and kept coming out and kept coming out,” he continued, referencing a previous story Pazsitzy told about Segura, her husband. “There's a clip of you guys talking where you say, ‘Tom said to me when we first started dating that he wanted to smash my head open and keep my brains or whatever it is.’ And you say, ‘No. That's not what I said. All I said is I love you so much, I wanna smash your head into the dresser.’”

“But, by the way, now imagine if you guys broke up and Christina took her part of that conversation out and only released, ‘Tom said he wanted to smash my head into a dresser’ and said it with a straight face, everyone would go, ‘He's obviously a domestic abuser,’” said Hammer, who shares children Harper, 9, and Ford, 7, with Chambers.

Hammer also waded into a discussion about his sexual fantasies, explaining he enjoys tying up a partner during play. He said he practiced on a mannequin he bought from a department store.

“I like the idea that you are so completely mine. Yeah. I can do whatever I want, and you love it because you know you're mine,” said Hammer, who last appeared in the 2022 film Death on the Nile.

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“And, like, this possession kinda thing, like, that's just fun to talk about. And, by the way, especially if you're, like, drunk or stoned or high at night and you're texting. And while you're saying it, you're, like, chuckling to yourself, like, I'm gonna f---ing cut your toe off and keep it in my pocket so I got a piece of you everywhere I go, ha ha ha,” said Hammer.

“If anyone took anyone's bedroom conversations — specifically, like, if people were having a little bit of sexy time — and they took the s--- that they said, even if it was completely vanilla, and you read that somewhere else out of context, everyone's gonna go, 'You guys are f---ing disgusting,'” added Hammer.

Asked if he was losing his mind while the scandal unfolded, Hammer continued, “I think I was more just in full panic mode because yeah. I mean, to get a little bit serious here, there was this sort of, like, there was the mask that I didn't really identify with, but everyone thought was me, that that became sort of like my safety net and identity. And then when that gets shattered and everyone goes, 'We no longer like this guy. We f---ing hate him.'”

“Which is rough. I mean, dude, there would be articles in, like, The Punjabi Times about how I was a cannibal and all that stuff,” he said. “And I think in March of 2021, like, I was the, like, fifth most-searched person on Google in the world. And all of it was negative.”

“You're just left standing there naked in front of the world with all of your proclivities or kinks being judged by the world. That s--- is tough,” he said.

Hammer also admitted that he used women to feed his ego.

“People were my bags of dope with skin on it. Like, having that, having people want to have sex with me, having sex with people, doing all that stuff, like, it gave me a sense of power. It gave me a sense of validation,” he said.

“What I would do is I would scoop these girls up, take them on a whirlwind month and a half, road trips, trips, whatever. Like, we're gonna do all these things. We're gonna have great sex. Everything's gonna be awesome. And then at the end of it, I'm gonna go, 'Hey, good job. Go team.' And then I'm gonna bounce and go do it with someone else and leave this person feeling like, ‘Wait. I just was sucked into this tornado of a world and felt like this is my place now and then dropped.”

Hammer, who has previously opened up about being sexually assaulted by a pastor when he was 13, has been in therapy. He said on the podcast that he has spent time reflecting on his actions.

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“There are aspects of my behavior that I think were coming from maybe not the healthiest place. Then there were aspects of my behavior that were just expressions of my own sexuality,” he said. “So I had to sort of, like, comb through all of that and figure out what's coming from the right place, what's coming from a trauma place.”

During the wide-ranging conversation, The Social Network actor also addressed how his children — with whom he spent the holidays — might feel about him down the road.

“I also am well aware that my daughter and son are gonna get to a certain point where they then do therapy, and then they go, 'I hate my dad, too.' 'And I'm, like, f—. I'm trying here,” he said.

Hammer, who admitted, "I think somewhere deep down, subconsciously, I wanted to get caught,” said he’s hopeful about his future and recently shot a movie, Frontier Crucible, with William H. Macy: “I wouldn’t say I’m back, [but] I'm working.”

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