On Thursday, Vanity Fair printed an in-depth look into Armie Hammer’s downfall following a social media firestorm about what the actor calls “bulls– claims” about him.
One of essentially the most damming revelations comes from unnamed sources that his ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers has been joking to mates that her former marriage is similar to “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” through which Zac Efron performs serial killer Ted Bundy. A spokesperson for Chambers has not but responded to TheWrap’s request for remark.
In January, leaked messages purporting to element the star’s intercourse life, together with a supposed concerned with cannibalism and rape fantasies, surfaced on an Instagram account beneath the identify House of Effie. Hammer launched a press release shortly after, when he dropped out of Lionsgate’s “Shotgun Wedding” amid the firestorm, saying, “I’m not responding to these bulls– claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for 4 months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic. Lionsgate is supporting me in this and I’m grateful to them for that.”
According to the Vanity Fair article, Gloria Allred is representing the particular person behind @houseofeffie account presently.
Several ladies have since stated they’ve had comparable exchanges with the actor. Hammer’s lawyer had no extra remark, however beforehand issued a press release in regards to the accusations that “all interactions between Mr. Hammer and his former partners were consensual. They were fully discussed, agreed upon in advance with his partners, and mutually participatory. The stories perpetuated on social media were designed to be salacious in an effort to harm Mr. Hammer, but that does not make them true.”
See under for seven different revelations from the Vanity Fair piece.
1) He’s Broke
Hammer claimed monetary independence from his wealthy and highly effective household, who’ve been concerned with Russian communists and American oil tycoons, in accordance with the article, and in 2017 he even confessed that he couldn’t pay out a guess he had made with filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. “It would literally bankrupt me, and I need to buy diapers tomorrow.”
Now, one of many ladies who declare they’d a relationship with Hammer, Paige Lorenze, stated she met Hammer in September and that she paid for every little thing as a result of Hammer didn’t have any cash and was solely getting “by on loans from friends.”
2) Lorenze Quickly Got Uncomfortable
Lorenze, who has beforehand spoken out about her relationship with Hammer, stated issues with Hammer bought intense in a short time, and she or he broke issues off with the actor after “he started making rules for me of things I could and couldn’t do, who I could have over, who I couldn’t. He told me that I couldn’t have anyone else in my bed. And then I just started to feel really unsafe and really sick to my stomach about things. I was also emotionally dependent on him.”
She then stated she ended the connection over textual content. “You never know what you’re going to get with him–he’s kind of a scary person.”
She stated that as quickly as she noticed the nameless leaked DMs, her abdomen “just dropped.” “Because he would say things to me…weird stuff…like, ‘I want to eat your ribs,’” she stated. “The scariest part of it is that I did love him in a way,” Lorenze stated. “I would’ve let him kind of do anything. He had a certain hold over me.”
3) A Friend Says Hammer’s ‘Dry Sense of Humor’ Is to Blame
A good friend of Hammer and Chambers advised Vanity Fair that his “dry sense of humor” and an absence of context across the textual content messages are guilty for the social media firestorm.
“I was like, this is just Armie making really perverse jokes. And then it got conflated with his [seemingly] newfound interest in BDSM sex, which is his prerogative,” the good friend stated. “There are lots nuances to the topic of intercourse and consent, and it’s simply not a subject that…
