Armie Hammer admits he 'needed an adjustment' after 2021 sex abuse scandal... but wonders why he's still canceled after LAPD investigation, psych evaluation, and rehab stint

Armie Hammer took his image rehabilitation circuit to nan basement of Bill Maher's $20M Beverly Hills mansion connected Sunday wherever they discussed cancel culture connected his podcast Club Random.

It's been good complete 3 years since nan 37-year-old disgraced movie prima was dropped by his WME agent, publicist, and early films aft being publically accused by 4 women of intersexual maltreatment contempt him maintaining their encounters were consensual.

And while matter messages confirmed Armie's convulsive BDSM fetishes ('I americium 100% a cannibal'), nan LA District Attorney's Office told TMZ in May 2023 location was 'insufficient evidence' to beryllium he raped Effie Angelova owed to nan 'complexity of nan relationship.'

'They went done phones, emails, eyewitness reports. They investigated maine for 2 and a half years successful a clip wherever if they could person nailed personification for illustration me, it would person been specified a boon for nan LAPD,' Hammer noted.

'And aft 2 and a half years they came to nan conclusion that location is nary grounds immoderate crime had been committed.' 

The Call Me by Your Name alum besides underwent a 'full psychological evaluation' successful nan Cayman Islands owed to his custody conflict for nine-year-old girl Harper and seven-year-old boy Ford amid his divorcement from BIRD Bakery CEO Elizabeth Chambers, which was finalized a twelvemonth ago.

'So I had to taxable myself for a multi-month afloat psychological evaluation, and nan study astatine nan extremity of that was was glowing,' Armie claimed.

'They're like, "He's sewage issues. [But] he's not what group are saying."'

Hammer - who utilized to 'smoke 20 joints a day' - has remained happily sober pursuing his nine-month stint astatine a Florida rehab to conflict his addictions to drugs, alcohol, and activity issues.

'Therapy for maine has been a life changer,' nan Golden Globe nominee gushed.

'Listen, I needed an adjustment. There was immoderate s*** going on. Here's what I deliberation would person happened had nary of this gone connected and for illustration nan cataclysmic tectonic displacement successful my life wouldn't person happened. My life would person kept going precisely arsenic it was, and I cognize that would yet only lead successful 1 spot and that's death...

'I knowledgeable an ego death, a profession death, a financial decease - each of these things, right? And [William Paul] Young talks astir this. Joseph Campbell talks astir this. You've sewage to dice and erstwhile you dice you tin past beryllium reborn. A phoenix isn't going to emergence if there's nary ashes.'

Before his cancellation, Armie afloat admitted he was 'drinking a lot. I was doing a batch of drugs. I was partying hard. I was being existent accelerated and loose astir what I put successful matter messages and I was besides engaging successful risky behaviour that, if you really deliberation astir it, was stupid!' 

The 68-year-old Emmy-winning shaper - whose movie poster for Cannibal Women ironically hung down nan brace - overlooked astir of Hammer's past behaviour but drew nan statement astatine him drinking and driving while filming himself backmost successful 2021.

'100 percent! 100 percent! To beryllium fair, it was MDMA. I'm a small hazy,' Armie admitted.

'I mean who hasn't done MDMA successful nan passenger's spot of a car?'

When Bill asked again if he was down nan wheel, Hammer shrugged: 'Maybe I was? Also 100% I decidedly drove irresponsibly for judge and and by nan measurement I did each kinds of crazy s*** that if I really deliberation astir it now. I benignant of look astatine it, there's nary measurement I didn't expect this moreover unconsciously subconsciously. It was self-destruction.'

Maher was besides visibly uncomfortable asking nan precocious schoolhouse drop-out why he carved his first first 'A' into Paige Lorenze's pubic area pinch a weapon and started licking nan humor during their four-month fling.

'You get successful these moods, for illustration particularly if you're inebriated aliases particularly if

whatever, you commencement to go, "This is simply a awesome idea!"' Armie - whose texts were 'negotiating boundaries' - explained.

'And it's like, wait, group get tattoos of each other's initials each nan time. And by nan way, like, I'm not performing surgery. All of these things successful a consensual narration that were prediscussed and consented to, immoderate they mightiness person been betwixt 2 people.' 

Hammer - who, astatine property 13, was molested by a 'member of nan clergy' for 'about a year' - concluded: 'At nan extremity of nan day, wounded group wounded people.'

'What would hap is I would suck these women into this whirlwind and past nan infinitesimal it sewage existent aliases nan infinitesimal it sewage friendly aliases nan infinitesimal it sewage serious, I would go, "Whoa! I ne'er signed up for this!" And I would conscionable I would move connected and, for illustration nan Seinfeld episode, I was a unspeakable breaker-upper,' nan two-time SAG Award nominee recalled.

'I cheated connected my wife. I utilized group to make maine consciousness better. I was callous and inconsiderate pinch group and their emotions and their well-being. I wanted what I wanted and I was

going to return it astatine immoderate costs moreover if it was astatine an affectional costs of personification else, and that is s****y behavior...I person to return accountability because that is pivotal for maine learning and increasing from it.'

Armie - who was ordered to salary $1,500 a period successful kid support - afloat admitted he's collapsed and said he applied to beryllium a play teacher, landscaper, building manager, and timeshare salesman but 'the Cayman Islands refuses to springiness maine activity permits.'

'You opportunity what you want, I loved it. I would emotion to beryllium a timeshare salesman it is truthful fun,' Hammer quipped.

'Someone mightiness look astatine maine and go, "Yeah but financially you're successful a very different position than you've ever been successful your full life." And I look astatine that and I go, "Yeah and you cognize what? It's taught maine that I don't request that because I've ne'er been happier than I've ever been successful my full life.'

Armie's past acting domiciled was portraying Alex Magnussen successful Taika Waititi's 2023 movie Next Goal Wins, but nan full domiciled was reshot successful December 2021 pinch seven-time Emmy nominee Will Arnett.

The past clip audiences saw Hammer he played nan two-timing Simon Doyle successful Kenneth Branagh's 2022 movie Death connected nan Nile, but he was wholly edited retired of nan trailers.