Armie Hammer's New Podcast: A Diary About Him 'Putting His Life Back Together'

LOS ANGELES, CA — Nearly four years after Armie Hammer was first publicly accused of sexual misconduct, the actor this week launched a podcast that he says will chronicle him putting his "life back together."

"The original idea of the podcast was sort of the concept that, throughout the course of the day, every single person that you interact with knows at least one thing that you don't," Hammer said in an Instagram video. "It's going to be a sort of journal, or chronicling, of putting my life back together ... some of you are going to love this, some of you are going to hate this."

The first episode of "The Armie HammerTime Podcast" premiered Monday. It features a conversation with comedian Tom Arnold about addiction, "the impact of their childhoods on their current lives" and "the effects of fame on relationships and the journey of rebuilding a career after setbacks."

The podcast was ranked No. 49 in the Society & Culture category on Apple Podcasts on Wednesday.

Hammer, who earned critical acclaim for his roles in "The Social Network" and "Call Me By Your Name," was accused by several women in 2021 of abuse and making comments about cannibalism. The highly publicized accusations led Hammer's talent agency to drop him that year. He pulled out of planned film projects and has not acted since.

After an investigation, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office in 2023 determined there was insufficient evidence to charge Hammer with a crime, prosecutors said at the time.

The accusations against Hammer began in January 2021, when an anonymous Instagram account posted messages it claimed had been written by Hammer about drinking blood and saying "I am a 100% cannibal."

Later that month his ex-girlfriend Courtney Vucekovich told Page Six that Hammer "grooms" women and expressed a desire to "barbecue and eat" her rib. And another ex, Paige Lorenze, told the publication that sex with Hammer self her with bruises and that the actor had carved an "A" into her skin.

The Los Angeles Police Department in March 2021 announced it had opened the since-closed investigation into accusations against Hammer.

That month, Efrosina Angelova, then 24, held a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred to discuss her allegations against Hammer. Angelova claimed she met the actor on Facebook in 2016 and was in a relationship with Hammer, who was married at the time, between 2016 and 2020. She broke down in tears as she alleged that Hammer raped her for hours and slammed her head against the wall.

"I tried to get away, but he wouldn't let me. I thought that he was going to kill me," she said.

Angelova later came forward as the creator of the anonymous Instagram account and recently published a memoir of the abuse online, which she discussed in an interview with the Daily Mail.

Hammer's attorney denied the allegations said that all of Hammer's sexual encounters have been "completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory."