Armie Hammer ‘Grateful’ For Sexual Assault, Cannibalism Claims Against Him: 'I Feel Great About It Now'
Armie Hammer said he is looking at the dark moments in his life through a positive lens.
The "Call Me By Your Name" star recently appeared on "The Painful Lessons" podcast and reflected on the darkest moments of his life, which included getting accused of eating another person.
"The things that people were saying about me felt so outlandish, that I was a cannibal. Now I'm able to look at it with a sense of distance and perspective and be like, 'That's hilarious.' People called me a cannibal and everyone believed them...Whatever 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," he said.
"Having learned everything that I've learned as a result from it, I look at it now and I go, 'You know what it was awful.' I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, but for the people in my life that I truly love, I hope some version, preferably smaller than what I went through, would happen to them as well so they could learn everything that I've learned."
"I feel great about it now," he added.
From his experience, the 37-year-old actor shared a piece of advice on how one must deal with a painful experience in their life.
"You're at a crossroads, right? You can either take a road from your painful lesson where you learn nothing and only get [angrier] at the world and the world does not become a better place and the world becomes in a way through perception right even more hostile towards you," he remarked.
"Or you can be at that crossroads and... take the high road, and that high road is not going to be smooth sailing. [But] I genuinely believe that if you handle painful lessons well, the universe, God, whatever it is goes, 'Nice, he learned his lesson. Let's keep teaching him.'"
In 2021, Hammer's Hollywood career took a huge hit. Unverified messages reportedly showing the actor's alleged chats with several women surfaced online, according to Variety.
In the conversations, he allegedly expressed his sexual appetite to drink blood and other cannibalistic fetishes -- eating a woman's rib, carving his initial into a woman's skin and engaging in "knife play," among many others.
After experiencing "an ego death, a career death" because of the allegations, he joined a 12-step program to recover.
Now, he's making his "own sandbox" in Hollywood by writing a script with a friend named Jerry.
Watch his full interview here:
