Armie Hammer breaks his silence on those cannibalism accusations

Armie Hammer is addressing those accusations… well at least some of them.

In a new episode of the Painful Lessons podcast, the Call Me By Your Name star opened up about his recent controversies that involved allegations of abuse, rape, and even cannibalism.

"Whatever it was that people said, whatever it was that happened, I'm now at a place in my life where I'm grateful for every single bit of it," Hammer said.

"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," he continued. "I never knew how to give myself love. I never knew how to give myself self-validation, but I had this job where I was able to get it from so many people that I never had to learn how to give it to myself."

Hammer then directly addressed the cannibalism accusations. "People called me a cannibal. Like I ate people! What???? You know what you have to do to be a cannibal? You have to eat people!" he said.

He got more serious when talking about the abuse allegations, saying "it was an ego death, a career death. A neutron bomb went off in my life."

"There were a lot of times when I thought I can't take this anymore," he continued. "I was getting hate… so it just went right in… there was a time I was standing at the shore and I swam out really far and just laying there… a half-assed suicide attempt… but I thought I couldn't do that to my kids."

In 2021, a woman accused Hammer of raping her in 2017, and said that he had "increasingly more violent" fantasies that he would sometimes act out on her.

Others shared alleged texts and direct messages from the actor detailing violent sexual fantasies that involved cannibalism and murder. In the texts, Hammer detailed these fantasies, saying he wanted to do things like "breaking your bones," "cut a piece of your skin off and make you cook it for me," I want to see your brain, your blood, your organs, every part of you," and "I need your blood. I want you to feed me with it."

Hammer had denied any claims of sexual assault, but did admit he has a "very intense and extreme lifestyle," and said that all his sexual encounters were "completely consensual."