Actor Armie Hammer is accused of abuse of power and cannibalism, according to several witnesses. In the midst of a controversy, he had to leave the filming of the film he had just started with Jennifer Lopez.
This is the case that has rocked the cinema world and social networks since Monday, January 10. Successful actor Armie Hammer, seen in Call me by your Name, or Rebecca on Netflix, is accused of cannibalism, after alarming text messages, supposedly sent to young women, were leaked online.
In recent days, many witnesses have revealed on social networks screenshots of conversations they have had by private Instagram messaging with the actor. "I imagine holding your heart in my hand and controlling it when it beats. I am a 100% cannibal. I want to eat you. It's creepy to admit it", he reportedly sent one of his" kittens ", the name he would give to the young women he approaches on the social network, before explaining that he already has"cut out the heart of a living animal"and ate this one"while it was still hot".
Or : "I would like to mark you, tattoo you, shave your head and keep your hair with me. Cut off a piece of skin and ask you to cook it for me … Tell you to cut your veins and use the blood as lubricantTo another woman, he allegedly offered to cut off one of his toes and put it in his pocket so that he would always have the young woman with him.
"A culture that gives abusers the benefit of the doubt"
The controversy swelling, the actor spoke on Wednesday January 13, and announced in Variety withdraw from the film Shotgun Wedding with Jennifer Lopez, as filming is about to begin. He stated : "I will not respond to this bullshit but in the face of this vicious and bogus online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience give up my children for four months to shoot a movie in the Dominican Republic. Liongates supports my decision and I am grateful to them for that".
But the day after this statement, his former girlfriend Courtney Vucekovich decides to speak in the columns of the New York Post. A testimony that gives reason to the rumors, and confirms the dangerous practices attributed to Armie Hammer in recent days. "When I had a little cut on my finger he liked to suck it or lick it. It was really weird.", confides the young woman. She goes even further and reveals: "He told me he wanted to break my ribs, barbecue them and eat them".
The Daily Mail Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, who was said to have dated the actor for a while, denounced the culture of impunity towards celebrities: "If you're still wondering if these Armie Hammer DMs are real (and they are), maybe you should start to wonder why we live in a culture that gives abusers the benefit of the doubt but not the victims.On the same day, Paige Lorenze, who also dated the actor after his divorce in February 2020, tweeted: "Anyone know a good psychologist? ". If her post didn't necessarily involve the scandal around Armie Hammer, when Jessica Ciencin Henriquez replied," Yes, I know one, I will send you the number", some internet users see this as irrefutable proof that there is indeed a link.