Armie Hammer addresses childhood sexual abuse: “It was a member of clergy”
After opening up about the abuse that he had suffered from as a child, actor Armie Hammer has now given more details that his abuser was a member of the clergy.
Hammer had previously mentioned that his experience with abuse led to a lifetime of trouble with his own personal relationships. Ever since 2021, he has been accused of various forms of sexual abuse and emotionally abusive behaviour from multiple women. Though there has been an ongoing investigation, no charges have since been pressed.
According to Hammer, he said that the abuse started when he was around 13 years old, telling Club Random, “I’d say about a year. It was a member of clergy, like that kind of stereotypical kind of trope. It was something I never ever spoke about, and was never open about and never okay with, and had so much shame about.”
Hammer would also say that his experience was something that he learned to overcome over time, explaining, “[I was] like ‘What does that say about me?’ And the answer is, it doesn’t fucking say anything about me. Like, no 13-year-old is like, ‘I want to do this.’ It’s just not the way it goes.”
The Call Me By Your Name actor has also been upfront about how his experiences have led to his fascination with BDSM, which is at the core of the allegations. Aside from the sexual allegations, there have been accusations lobbied against Hammer for being a cannibal, which he has since denied.
Since then, Hammer had talked about working on himself when following the allegations by going to a 12-step programme, which he said: “killed my ego, it killed all the people around me that I thought were my friends that weren’t – all of those people, in a flash, went away.”
Hammer would go on to say that he found being cancelled a “liberating” experience, saying that he didn’t have to care what people had thought of him anymore following the allegations. He had also admitted to having emotionally abused some of his partners.
Despite his outlook, Hammer has kept quiet in Hollywood, only just recently revealing that he intends to finish a script that he has in the works. However, outside of the 2022 film Death on the Nile, he has not starred in anything else and does not have any new projects lined up.
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