Armie Hammer experienced a rather successful acting career before sexual assault allegations pushed him out of Hollywood. Now, several years later, Armie Hammer reveals that he’s “happier than ever” despite being “broke” due to the allegations made against him.
This was shared by Hammer while speaking with Bill Maher on a Club Random podcast episode. According to Armie Hammer, he was totally broke because his family didn’t send him any money. For Hammer, this is what made him much happier than he was as a Hollywood actor.
Here’s what he stated on the matter:
“Someone might look at me and go, ‘Yeah, but financially, you’re in a very different position than you’ve ever been in your entire life,'” he explained at one point in the interview. “And I look at that and I go, ‘Yeah, And you know what it’s taught me is that I don’t need that because I’ve never been happier than I’ve ever been in my entire life.'”
Furthermore, he believes that his previous circumstances would have brought him to “death” if he didn’t face the consequences of the allegations he faced.
“My life would have kept going exactly as it was,” he told Maher. “And I know that that would ultimately lead in one place and that’s death.”
Hammer dived into further detail:
“My life was going on a certain way and there was – it’s Newton’s laws right. An object in motion is going to remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force,” he explained. “My life was in motion. I was making a lot of money. I was drinking a lot. I was doing a lot of drugs. I was partying hard. I was being real fast and loose about what I put in text messages. And I was also engaging in risky behavior that, if you really think about it, was stupid.”
At which point their conversation turned toward the alleged abuse that Hammer faced at 13-years-old from a clergy member.
“I think a lot of the behavior I was engaging in was coming from extenuating circumstances,” Hammer told Maher. “Whether it be a certain displeasure about my own life – whether it be, you know, fueled by…”
Maher mentioned the aforementioned allegations of abuse that Hammer himself claims to have faced, and he responded with the following:
“It was something I never, ever spoke about and was never open about and never OK with and had so much shame about,” Hammer admitted. “Like, what does that say about me? And the answer is, it doesn’t f—ing say anything about me.”
Furthermore, Hammer had this to say about his new situation:
“Because so much of my life leading up to there, it was two things,” Hammer explained. “It was being preoccupied with how I was perceived, which now you don’t have to care about. Once everyone just decides that they hate you, you go, ‘Oh, well then I don’t need anything from you people any way. I guess I should just learn to be content with myself.'”
“And then you go do that and it feels f—ing amazing,” he continued. “And then when anybody says anything to you afterwards, they go, ‘I don’t like you.’ You go, ‘OK, I don’t care.’ Like your opinion is yours and you’re allowed to have it. I just don’t agree. But before I needed that, I needed that validation.”
It seems like he’s genuinely moving forward after the allegations that he’s faced in recent years. Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional Armie Hammer updates as we have them. In the meantime, it’s interesting to see that he’s making the best out of his current situation in life. Especially when one can assume the situation could have easily panned out very differently.