Armie Hammer is opening up about his life since leaving Hollywood in 2021 throughout the COVID pandemic.

"The world appeared prefer it was falling aside, and other people have been simply deeply sad with their very own lives," Hammer speculated on a current episode of Christina Pazsitzy and Tom Segura's Your Mom’s House podcast. "After which this salacious story comes round the place this actor needs to homicide and eat folks. And impulsively, everybody's like, 'Oh, that is a lot extra enjoyable to give attention to than the truth that I can't depart my lounge.'"

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The primary "salacious story" about Hammer got here in January 2021, when he give up social media within the wake of a number of disturbing sexual assault allegations made towards him. Hammer was accused of rape and "different acts of violence" two months later by ex Effie Angelova, whom he dated on and off for 4 years.

Additional allegations and lawsuits adopted, prompting Hammer to give up Hollywood and promote timeshares on the Cayman Islands for a quick stint. In Might 2023, the Los Angeles County District Lawyer's Workplace introduced that it might not file sexual assault fees towards the actor, citing "inadequate proof" and the "complexity of the connection" between the actor and his accuser.

Among the many allegations made towards Hammer have been those who claimed the Name Me By Your Title actor harbors erotic cannibalistic fantasies. Discussing his sexuality, Hammer defined to Segura and Pazsitzy that he enjoys tying his accomplice up throughout intimate play: "I like the thought that you’re so fully mine. Yeah. I can do no matter I need, and also you find it irresistible as a result of you understand you're mine."

"This possession-kinda factor," he continued, "that's simply enjoyable to speak about. And by the way in which, particularly if you happen to're drunk or stoned or excessive at evening and also you're texting. Whilst you're saying it, you're chuckling to your self, like, 'I'm gonna f—ing reduce your toe off and maintain it in my pocket so I received a chunk of you in every single place I am going.'"

Hammer feels that he's been singled out for condemnation for his sexual proclivities.

"If anybody took anybody's bed room conversations — particularly if folks have been having somewhat little bit of attractive time," he mentioned, "they usually took the s— that they mentioned, even when it was fully vanilla, and also you learn that some other place out of context, everybody's gonna go, 'You guys are f—ing disgusting.'"

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The quantity of texts and private-message threads that was revealed with the allegations made towards Hammer uncovered intimate ideas and moments, an expertise Hammer likens to being "left standing there bare in entrance of the world with all your proclivities or kinks being judged by the world."

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Now residing in a self-described "tiny-ass condo," Hammer went on to psychoanalyze his intercourse drive ("folks have been my baggage of dope with pores and skin on it"); speculate why the ladies he was concerned with might not maintain him in excessive esteem ("I’d scoop these women up, take them on a whirlwind month and a half… then I'm gonna bounce and go do it with another person"); and ponder the legacy of his actions on his family ("I additionally am nicely conscious that my daughter and son are gonna get to a sure level the place they do remedy after which go, 'I hate my dad, too'").

Hammer briefly broke his Hollywood hiatus with a music video look in December that made mild of the cannibalism allegations, and he’ll return to the large display screen with the William H. Macy-starring Western Frontier Crucible.

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