Armie Hammer admits he ‘kind of likes’ the cannibal accusations against him: ‘It’s wild’

Armie Hammer says he now “likes” that he was infamously accused of being a cannibal.

Hammer, 38, said astir nan cannibalism allegations that derailed his profession connected nan first section of his caller podcast, “Armie HammerTime,” released connected Monday.

“It’s wild,” he told his impermanent Tom Arnold. “I’m not going to lie, I benignant of for illustration nan cannibal worldly now.”

“The accusations are nan point that make truthful overmuch noise. Like, what makes much noise? ‘Armie Hammer is simply a cannibal’ aliases ‘Armie Hammer mightiness not beryllium a cannibal?’”

“The cannibal point makes much noise,” he added, “and you don’t get an apology circuit successful this world. Like, personification says thing astir you, everyone believes it, and they move connected pinch their lives to immoderate it is they’re focused on, because they’ve sewage their ain lives.”

Arnold, 65, told Hammer, “The awesome news is that you’ve worked connected yourself.”

“When thing for illustration this happens, we do each this activity connected ourselves,” Hammer responded. “Not truthful that we tin get nan jobs backmost but truthful that we don’t attraction if we get nan jobs back. I deliberation that’s wherever I consciousness for illustration I americium now.”

Allegations that nan “Call Me by Your Name” character fantasized astir cannibalism began to aboveground successful 2021. The pursuing year, 2 women Hammer allegedly had affairs pinch while joined to his ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, gave sound to nan rumors erstwhile interviewed for nan docuseries “House of Hammer.” The women, Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison, claimed nan prima sent them messages describing cannibalistic fantasies he had astir them.

With Hammer facing allegations of rape successful summation to cannibalism, nan Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office confirmed successful April 2023 that nan character was being investigated for imaginable intersexual assault. Hammer has consistently denied nan allegations made against him.

The LA District Attorney yet decided there was not capable grounds against Hammer to support a trial, and he was not charged.

Hammer said astir nan ngo connection of his podcast successful a video he posted connected Instagram Monday, nan aforesaid time nan pod’s debut section went live. Hammer said he intends to big “long-form, absorbing conversations pinch group who person devices aliases skills aliases person acquired wisdom… that I don’t cognize [and] I want to learn.”

“Some of you are going to emotion this, and immoderate of you are going to f–king dislike it,” he added. “The original thought of nan podcast was benignant of nan conception that complete nan people of a time each azygous personification you interact pinch knows astatine slightest 1 point that you don’t. So, thatch maine what that 1 point is.”

Hammer astir precocious made headlines erstwhile he documented his travel selling his motortruck astatine Carmax because he couldn’t spend nan gas.

The “Death connected nan Nile” character past talked astir the cannibalism allegations complete nan summer, labeling them “outlandish.”

“Now, I’m capable to benignant of look astatine it pinch a consciousness of region and position and beryllium like, ‘That’s hilarious,’” Hammer said successful June connected nan “Painful Lessons” podcast. “People called maine a cannibal and everyone believed them. They’re like, ‘Yep, that feline ate people.'”

Hammer explained that he didn’t cognize really to respond to nan accusations astatine nan time.

“You’re conscionable like, ‘What? What are you talking about?'” he recalled himself thinking. “‘Do you cognize what you person to do to beryllium a cannibal? You person to eat people. How americium I going to beryllium a cannibal?’ It was bizarre.”

In July, Hammer revealed successful a abstracted question and reply that he recovered thing “liberating” astir having his profession and nationalist image destroyed.

“It’s incredibly liberating,” he admitted to Bill Maher on nan “Club Random” podcast. “Because truthful overmuch of my life starring up to location was being preoccupied pinch really I was perceived, which now you don’t person to attraction about.”