Nearly four years after Armie Hammer was rumored to be a cannibal, the Call Me By Your Name star reflected on his sexual kinks that led to those speculations.
However, nearly four years after the Call Me By Your Name star was rumored to be a cannibal, he shared insight into his sexual preferences that led to those remarks.
“The world seemed like it was falling apart,” Armie recalled during the Jan. 1 episode of Your Mom’s House podcast. “People were deeply unhappy with their own lives. Then, this salacious story comes around where this actor wants to murder and eat people. All of a sudden, everyone’s like, ‘Oh, this is so much more fun to focus on than the fact that I can’t leave my living room.’”
The 38-year-old—who also faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct but was never charged despite a two-year investigation by the LAPD—noted that “stories kept coming out and kept coming out and kept coming out.”
He emphasized that although his eyebrow-raising exchanges with women were taken out of context, he did enjoy bondage during sex.
“I like the idea that you are so completely mine,” he explained. “I can do whatever I want, and you love it because you know you’re mine. This possession kind of thing, that’s just fun to talk about, especially if you’re drunk or stoned or high at night and you’re texting.”
“While you’re saying it, you’re chuckling to yourself, like, ‘I’m gonna f–king cut your toe off and keep it in my pocket so I got a piece of you everywhere I go, ha ha ha,’” he continued. “Then it gets read in the court of public opinion and everyone goes, ‘You’re insane.’”
Armie—who shares kids Harper, 9, and Ford, 7, with ex Elizabeth Chambers—believes the same can be true for any conversations had during sex.
“If anyone took anyone’s bedroom conversations,” he said, “specifically if people were having a little bit of sexy time, and they took the s–t that they said—even if it was completely vanilla—and you read that somewhere else out of context, everyone’s gonna go, ‘You guys are f–king disgusting.’”
As the scandal unfolded, the Social Network actor admitted that he went into “full panic mode.”
“There was the mask that I didn’t really identify with, but everyone thought was me,” he said. “That became sort of like my safety net and identity. When that gets shattered, everyone goes, ‘We no longer like this guy. We f–king hate him.’”
“All of a sudden, you’re just left standing there naked in front of the world with all of your proclivities or kinks being judged by the world,” he continued. “There was definitely an aspect of your sexuality being weaponized against you. It makes it really hard for you to feel safe to engage in your own sexuality.”
While he denied the cannibal rumors, he admitted that he often played “fast and loose” with other people’s feelings.
“I was being a selfish a–hole for sure,” he explained. “I was using people to make me feel better. People were my bags of dope with skin on it. Having that, having people want to have sex with me, having sex with people, doing all that stuff, it gave me a sense of power. It gave me a sense of validation.”
Since then, Armie has taken steps to understand where these feelings came from.
“There are aspects of my behavior that I think were coming from maybe not the healthiest place,” he admitted. “There were aspects of my behavior that were just expressions of my own sexuality. I had to comb through all of that and figure out what’s coming from the right place, what’s coming from a trauma place.”
He added, “I think somewhere deep down, subconsciously, I wanted to get caught.”
Source: www.eonline.com