Rich Polk
Armie Hammer is opening up about his past actions.
The actor, 38, who was shunned by Hollywood after being accused of rape by one woman and sharing violent, cannibalistic fantasies with other women, has previously admitted to infidelity.
Hammer confessed to cheating on his now ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers, 42, but denied the accusations against him. The “Call Me by Your Name” star was investigated for sexual assault by the LAPD but did not end up being charged.
Despite denying any wrongdoing, Hammer, who is dad to Harper, 10, and son Ford, who turns 8 this month, is revealing that using women would 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 while talking to comedians Christina Pazsitzky and Tom Segura on Wednesday’s episode of their podcast “Your Mom’s House.”
“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.”
But “The Social Network” star, who previously shared he was sexually assaulted by a pastor when he was 13, has been in therapy and reflecting on his past.
“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,” Hammer told the hosts. “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.”
The movie star, who is planning his comeback while living in what he refers to as a “tiny-ass apartment,” also touched on what the public’s response was like.
“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,’” Hammer recounted.
When it came to his sexual fantasies, Hammer revealed that he likes to tie up a partner during sex. He said he’s even 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,” he shared.
“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–king cut your toe off and keep it in my pocket so I got a piece of you everywhere I go, ha ha ha.”
Hammer, who split from Chambers in 2020 after 10 years of marriage, claimed that his intentions were taken out of context.
“If anyone took anyone’s bedroom conversations — specifically, like, if people were having a little bit of sexy time — and they took the s–t 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–king disgusting.’”
These days, Hammer is focused on hosting “The Armie HammerTime Podcast” and is hopeful about his future.
He recently shot a movie, “Frontier Crucible,” with William H. Macy, but joked, “I wouldn’t say I’m back, [but] I’m working.”