The actor sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the low-key "Painful Lessons" podcast ... opening up about how the online hate against him transformed his life -- in some ways for the better.
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00:00Army hammer it seems is taking the first steps maybe to
00:04Coming back to his career in Hollywood because he is really not
00:09Spoken out about the allegation. I'm not at all. Yeah, I mean there have been statements from lawyers
00:15You know certainly reacting when they dropped all the charges or they were never filed, right?
00:21Yeah, right
00:22But now he's speaking out for the first time he went on the painful lessons podcast
00:27Which is a recovery group, and I think it's very clear from what he's saying here that he is
00:33Going through some recovery and no doubt getting some treatment
00:38But here's what he had to say about all the not all of the allegations, but certainly the one that got the biggest headlines
00:45Claiming that he is a cannibal
00:48Here's what army had to say about there were things that people were saying about me that just felt so outlandish
00:54But yeah that I was a cannibal, you know, like I mean, it's it's
00:59now I'm able to sort of look at it with a sense of distance and perspective and be like
01:05That's hilarious. Like it was people called me a cannibal and
01:10Everyone believed them. They're like, yep that guy ate people and you're just like
01:15What like what are you talking about?
01:17Do you know what you have to do to be a cannibal you have to eat people like
01:21How how how am I going to be a cannibal like it's
01:25It was bizarre. Whatever it was that happened
01:28I'm now at a place in my life where I'm grateful for every single bit of it
01:35I'm actually now at a place where I'm really grateful for it
01:39What first happened was DMS of his were leaked that had a lot of cannibally type talk from him
01:46I want to eat your ribs. I want to eat your heart stuff like that. You can go back and look them up
01:49They're still out there on the right after that
01:52Women started coming out and saying army hammer bites me arm army hammer this army hammer sexually assaulted me XY and Z
01:58But it all started with the DMS and that's what he was getting roasted for online
02:01That's why he was being labeled a cannibal because he was talking like a literal cannibal
02:05So for him to be incredulous about this when they call me a cannibal, well, hey, bro
02:08If you're talking like a cannibal, yes, you're gonna be called a cannibal. That's just how it goes. Unfortunately
02:13Yeah, so that it's a little more nuanced like that one thing happened first then the other thing
02:18I think he's addressing the first part first
02:20Which is the the roasting online and people and by the way, a lot of that was said in jest
02:24It was a lot of jokes and memes. It wasn't like maybe some people
02:27That's just not true. There were people who thought
02:30Armie hammer eat people or each other's mostly
02:36Series built around it. Yeah, they did a whole docu-series on it. I mean look he
02:42You can whatever he says
02:45You know what the reason of the prosecutors didn't go forward with the case and we knew this from LAPD was this was
02:54Talk it was sex talk, which sounds bizarre to most people. But that's what this thing was and
03:01That becomes part of this whole SNM culture
03:06That you know, he was involved in so I don't know
03:10I mean what really is in I mean what the the investigation came back with the police came back and says they didn't have
03:16Evidence the prosecutor said there was no evidence here for us to go forward and make a case right not enough evidence
03:21So I think what you said is really interesting, which is is this his play because he couldn't get a job
03:27We know he couldn't get a job
03:29He is he was canceled from Hollywood and now the question is this the beginning of army army numbers attempted return a first
03:37Step even if it's not
03:39his intent in doing the interview
03:41It certainly will open the door if there are people in town who see that and feel like he's contrite and that he's
03:47Working on himself. He wants back right? He does want back and remember we saw him working at that timeshare in
03:56He wants back so it'll be interesting to see whether
04:00This is the first for yay, whether he's gonna do other things
04:04to be continued
04:07From Michigan, I agree. He definitely wants back and he's trying to make light of the situation
04:13And I don't understand him saying that he's grateful for these allegations
04:18I would understand maybe being grateful for time out of the spotlight, but grateful for allegations like this is just
04:25bizarre
04:26It is gonna be interesting to see
04:29How much people hold on to that whether he can come back? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know
04:37You