Armie Hammer’s former girlfriend ‘felt unsafe’ during relationship: ‘He’s kind of a scary person’
Paige Lorenze said she ended relationship over text because ‘you never know what you’re going to get’ with Hammer
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Your support makes all the difference.Armie Hammer’s former girlfriend says that she felt “really unsafe” during her relationship with the “scary” actor.
In January, the Call Me by Your Name actor stepped down from his role in the forthcoming film Shotgun Wedding after being embroiled in a social-media scandal in which an anonymous account leaked illicit messages that Hammer allegedly sent to different women.
The messages, which were not verified, include graphic accounts of sexual acts including topics such as cannibalism.
In a lengthy Vanity Fair article, Hammer’s former girlfriend Paige Lorenze has spoken about her relationship with the actor, which began last September when she was 22.
The design student said that she ended things with the actor after he began trying to control aspects of her life.
“He started making rules for me of things I could and couldn’t do, who I could have over, who I couldn’t,” Lorenze said. “He told me that I couldn’t have anyone else in my bed. And then I just started to feel really unsafe and really sick to my stomach about things.”
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Adding that she felt “emotionally dependent” on Hammer, Lorenze claimed that she ended the relationship over text “because you never know what you’re going to get with him – he’s kind of a scary person”.
When allegations about Hammer’s fetishes emerged earlier this year, Lorenze said that she’d recognised the language used in the messages.
“I saw these screenshots and my stomach just dropped, like, Holy f***,” she said. “Because he would say things to me… weird stuff… like, ‘I want to eat your ribs.’”
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Another ex-girlfriend of Hammer’s, Courtney Vucekovich, told Vanity Fair that The Social Network star had sulked after she refused to take part in “a bondage scenario that I was not comfortable with”.
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“I eventually consented and really regretted doing so,” she said.
Hammer’s lawyer told Vanity Fair: “All interactions between Mr Hammer and his former partners were consensual. They were fully discussed, agreed upon in advance with his partners, and mutually participatory.
“The stories perpetuated on social media were designed to be salacious in an effort to harm Mr Hammer, but that does not make them true.”