It’s been four years since multiple women came forward to accuse Armie Hammer of abuse, sexual misconduct, and having violent fetishes involving rape and cannibalism. Since then, he’s been slowly mounting his comeback. And now, in an episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast that aired this week, he boldly described taking a bite out of a dead animal’s heart on a hunting trip. Um … scary?
Why, exactly, did Hammer feel compelled to share such a story years after screenshots appeared to show him vividly describing cannibalistic fantasies via DM? Apparently he was defending those very texts. During the podcast episode, Theroux asked him about a message he allegedly sent to a woman that read, “I’ve cut the heart out of a living animal before and eaten it while still warm.” According to Hammer, heart eating is “sort of like an almost overly charged male rite of passage when you go hunting for the first time.” When Theroux asked him point blank if he had cut out an animal’s heart and eaten it, Hammer calmly explained that “you don’t eat the whole heart,” but “one of the traditions is you take a bite out of the heart and you’ve got all your buddies around you.” Apparently, “everyone” he knows “who went hunting for their first time had to do something similar.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Hammer again denied the wide spate of allegations made against him in 2021, when two exes claimed he had psychologically abused and manipulated them. One woman, Effie Angelova, also accused him of raping her in 2017 — a claim the LAPD investigated and declined to charge Hammer for. Hammer, who has always maintained his innocence, told Theroux this week that what he’s done is “not illegal,” although he did admit to using people as his own “bags of dope with skin on them.”
The disgraced actor added that he’s ready to make his comeback, saying: “The worm is turning. It takes time.” He was recently cast in a movie about a vigilante crime fighter, so … there’s that?