Armie Hammer says cancellation wasn’t a “fluke accident” but insists he “didn’t do what people are saying”
Armie Hammer has opened up about the experience of being cancelled following a string of sexual abuse allegations that were made against him a number of years ago.
After the former Hollywood star had appeared in films such as Call Me By Your Name and On The Basis of Sex throughout the 2010s, his career was seemingly ended in 2021 when multiple women made accusations of sexual abuse, including rape, against him.
Hammer was also accused of sending text messages with explicitly sexual and cannibalistic fantasies, although he denied all the allegations against him.
An investigation was launched into the actor by the Los Angeles Police Department in 2021, but in 2023, the authorities decided not to press charges due to a lack of evidence.
The actor retreated from the spotlight for a number of years, including a spell living in the Cayman Islands as a timeshare salesperson, before eventually making his return to the screen in a few low-budget films since 2024.
However, he has now given a new interview about his controversy to The Hollywood Reporter, in which he opened up about being cancelled by saying, “I made these problems for myself”.
He added: “This didn’t happen to me by a fluke accident. I didn’t do what people are saying I did. But I brought very dangerous and unsafe people into my life, and I pissed off people in my life — and here we are.”
However, when reflecting on his small return to the film industry with the movie Citizen Vigilante from director Uwe Boll, the actor said he “cried” upon receiving the offer. Hammer said, “It was just this moment where I was like: I’m going to get to do the thing that I love more than anything — other than my children.”
After the allegations against him came to light five years ago, Hammer was dropped by both his agent and publicist, and is now contacted for work only through his attorney.
Admittedly, Hammer couldn’t pick and choose from the work he was being given, as he added: “I would have done a fucking cat food commercial. I just wanted to work again.”
Ultimately, the actor expressed some level of regret towards the events that unfolded by saying: “I remember the emotional state and the mental state I was in before all that happened. Healthy people don’t act the way I was acting.”
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