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Armie Hammer, the disgraced Lone Ranger actor, is finally speaking out over sensational claims three years ago that he developed a ‘cannibalism fetish’, stating that he is ultimately “grateful” for the experience.

The 37-year-old actor, also known for his roles in Call Me By Your Name and The Social Network, found himself in the middle of a bizarre social media nightmare in 2021 after messages with ‘graphic sexual desires and cannibalistic fetishism’, allegedly sent from Hammer, surfaced.

Following the bizarre messages, the actor was also accused of rape in the same year, although he has consistently denied the allegations, insisting ‘all his relationships with women were consensual’.

Apart from a short statement via his lawyer shared at the time, in which he called the allegations “bullshit”, Hammer has remained silent on the claims, which, in his own words, caused “career death”.

 

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As the scandal intensified, the actor stepped down from future film roles and, a month later he was even dropped by his talent agency. After three years of silence, the actor has now spoken ou about the accusations, saying he is “grateful” for the experience.

“People called me a cannibal, and everyone believed them. They’re like, ‘Yep, that guy ate people.’

“Like, what? What are you talking about? Do you know what you have to do to be a cannibal? You have to eat people! How am I going to be a cannibal?! It was bizarre.”

Appearing on the appropriately named Painfull Lessons podcast, the actor says “I’m now at a place in my life where I’m grateful for every single bit of it.”

The actor claims he “never knew how to give myself love” as his job permitted him “to get it from so many people”. He continued: “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.”

Hammer claimed that the accusations caused both “an ego death” and “a career death,” so he entered a 12-step programme once they became public.

“It feels like a neutron bomb went off in my life. It killed me, it destroyed my ego, and it killed everyone I believed was my buddy but who was actually just nearby—all of those individuals vanished in an instant.”

As one of the bright stars in Hollywood at the time, the actor says he is no longer “a viable commodity” for what he described as the “Hollywood system”. Despite having no job offers at the moment, he is currently “writing a script with a friend”.

The bizarre allegations against Hammer came one year after he split from his wife of 10 years, Elizabeth Chambers, with whom he has two children, aged nine and seven.

After the initial ‘culling of the creeps’ the #metoo movement seems to have lost some steam, and several of the actors who were in the crossfire are now poking their heads out to test the public sentiment. With P Diddy drawing most of the fire at the moment, Spacey and Hammer seem desperate to get back onto the Hollywood chatgroup – one repentant podcast at a time.