Armie Hammer, the onetime A-list actor whose career came tumbling down around him amid a number of #MeToo accusations, is stepping back into the public sphere with a new podcast.
“Some of you are going to love this and some of you are going to fucking hate it,” says Hammer, 38, on Instagram, strolling down the Venice Beach boardwalk — an acknowledgment that the Call Me By Your Name and Lone Ranger star has amassed his fair share of detractors via his scandals.
The podcast — The Armie HammerTime Podcast — will feature a rotation of guests, each of whom “know one thing that you don’t.” Hammer will engage the guests in longform conversations in which they “teach me what that thing is.”
More intriguing, however, is the notion that the podcast will serve as a personal diary, offering insights into his inner thinking amid one of the most spectacular downfalls in Hollywood history.
“I’ve been gone for the last four years and now I’m back. What are you gonna do? So it’s going to be a sort of journal, or a chronicling, of putting my life back together,” Hammer teases.
The great-grandson of oil magnate Armand Hammer, Armie launched his acting career playing dual roles of the Winklevoss twins in 2010’s The Social Network.
His personal troubles began in early 2021, when snippets of sexually charged text messages with various women began to surface online. Hammer was married to entertainment journalist Elizabeth Chambers at the time; the couple divorced in 2023.
Hammer’s ex-girlfriend, Efrosina Angelo, accused him of raping her in 2017. Two other women than came forward and accused Hammer of subjecting them to emotional abuse so severe it led them to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. One said he expressed a desire to cook and eat her rib.
Hammer has countered that the relationships were all consensual sadomasochistic arrangements, but conceded he was emotionally abusive to the women.
Following an investigation, the LA County District Attorney declined to indict Hammer in 2023, citing insufficient evidence.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
