Armie Hammer says he was sexually abused as a child by a youth pastor at his family church – in his first interview since he was accused of extreme sexual violence in a series of allegations made in 2021.
The actor tells Airmail the abuse he experienced went on for nearly a year, saying: “What that did for me was it introduced sexuality into my life in a way that it was completely out of my control.
I was powerless in the situation. I had no agency in the situation. My interests then went to: I want to have control in the situation, sexually.” The actor also reveals he contemplated taking his own life when the allegations against him were first made, swimming out to sea at his home in the Cayman Islands, before thinking of his children and turning back.
In the interview, he admits he was emotionally abusive to a series of women – his status and money making it possible for him to seduce and drop them in swift succession – and that he entered into BDSM encounters, and a ‘consensual-non-consensual’ scene with one woman.
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