Armie Hammer 'kind of likes' cannibalism rumours: 'It's wild'

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Armie Hammer is stepping back into the limelight with a new podcast that he promises is “gonna be a sort of journal, or chronicling, of putting my life back together.”

“Some of you are going to love this and some of you are going to f—ing hate it. I’m starting a podcast. The original idea of the podcast was sort of the concept that throughout the course of the day every single person you interact with knows at least one thing that you don’t so teach me what that one thing is,” Hammer said in an Instagram video announcing The Armie HammerTime Podcast.

“I want to have long form, interesting conversations with people who have tools or skills or have acquired wisdom or even just some random s— that I don’t know. I want to learn, and that’s very much is still the sort of core idea of what it is that we’re trying to do with this podcast, but it’s also a journal of sorts. I’ve been gone for the last four years, and now I’m back. It’s gonna be a sort of journal, or chronicling, of putting my life back together,” he said.

The podcast comes after Hammer faced accusations of abuse and harbouring alleged cannibalistic fantasies and sexual fetishes in recent years.

Hammer’s wife Elizabeth Chambers filed for divorce in 2020. Months later, he was accused of rape by Efrosina Angelova, who alleged she was subjected to a four-hour ordeal in 2017.

Another former partner, Courtney Vucekovich, told Page Six that Hammer “likes the idea of skin in his teeth.

“He said to me he wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it,” Vucekovich said.

Hammer’s former girlfriend, Paige Lorenze, also spoke out about their relationship, telling Vanity Fair that she felt “unsafe” during her short-lived romance with the actor.

Police declined to charge the Call Me By Your Name and Lone Ranger star and Hammer denied the allegations in interviews with Bill Maher and Piers Morgan earlier this summer.

“You know what you have to do to be a cannibal? You have to have actually eaten someone,” Hammer replied when Morgan asked him about his fantasies. “This was a very intense affair — very sexually charged — between two people with very similar proclivities and kinks,” he said of the accusations made by Angelova.

Hammer said the talk of cannibalism was an element of their role-playing that was “born out of a desire to, sort of like, ‘I want you so completely,’ and, ‘I want you so totally,’ that it’s almost like, ‘I want to eat you.’”

“It’s wild,” he told his podcast’s first guest Tom Arnold about the accusations. “I’m not going to lie, I kind of like the cannibal stuff now.”

When Hammer told Arnold he could ask him anything, the True Lies actor wondered “What (was it) like?” when his career imploded and his agency dropped him.

“I remember when the s— hit the fan,” Hammer replies. “It was gradual. First it was like little pieces of s—, and then it was the whole thing. The little pieces of s— were, ‘There’s someone online saying things about you being abusive. It’s starting to pick up traction. Do you know who this person is?’ … Once the rape thing was dropped, the s— hit the fan so hard.”

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Elsewhere in their conversation, Hammer went on to talk about his feeling of abandonment from longtime friends as the controversy derailed his acting career.

“Every single person would call me and say, ‘I’ve known you since you were 19 years old. You’re not this guy. We know this isn’t you,'” he said. “In my head I’d go, ‘Great, yeah, thanks for the phone call, but don’t call me with that. Say something about this because no one is stopping this and it’s just a train that’s running away.'”

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