Armie Hammer Says He Was Sexually Abused By Pastor, Contemplated Suicide After Being Accused Of Rape
I care as much about Armie Hammer as I do the Chinese spy balloon, which is to say: I have zero interest in either. If you care, the guy you might vaguely remember from Call Me By Your Name has given his first interview since being accused of rape, and he’s playing the victim by claiming he was sexually abused as child. (FYI: Being sexually abused as a child doesn’t give you a get out of jail free card for being a sick freak as an adult.) Excerpt from full interview via Variety:
Two years after he faced a series of sexual abuse allegations that ended his career as a movie star, Armie Hammer is attempting to tell his side of the story. In a new interview, he reveals that he contemplated suicide after his downfall and claims he was sexually abused by a youth pastor at 13.
Hammer — who was the subject of an LAPD investigation after being accused of rape — denies all criminal wrongdoing, but admits to being emotionally abusive toward former partners he had met on the internet.
The actor, who was accused of having cannibalistic fetishes, now says that his interest in BDSM originates from being sexually abused by his youth pastor when he was 13 years old.
“What that did for me was it introduced sexuality into my life in a way that it was completely out of my control,” Hammer says. “I was powerless in the situation. I had no agency in the situation. Sexuality was introduced to me in a scary way where I had no control. My interests then went to: I want to have control in the situation, sexually.”
[Variety]
