Armie Hammer is speaking out about the personal scandal that sent his life into a spiral three years ago.

People called me a cannibal, and everyone believed them, the actor said on an episode of the Painful Lessons podcast released Sunday. Theyre like, Yup, that guy ate people.

Like, what? What are you talking about? Do you know what you have to do to be a cannibal? he added. You have to eat people! How am I going to be a cannibal? It was bizarre.

In 2021, the actor was embroiled in controversy after multiple women accused him of sexual abuse and coercion, and shared private messages where someone alleged to be Hammer expressed an interest in cannibalism and other sadistic fetishes.

Hammer denied the accusations of rape and physical abuse through his lawyers, calling the sexual encounters in question completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory.

The star was dropped by his talent agency, WME, and made a premature exit from projects like the Jennifer Lopez rom-com Shotgun Wedding and the Godfather-inspired Paramount+ series The Offer.

Amid the cannibalism scandal, the heir to the Hammer family oil fortune said he experienced both an ego death and a career death.

Its almost like a neutron bomb went off in my life, he told Painful Lessons host Tyler Ramsey. It killed me, it killed my ego, it killed all the people around me that I thought were my friends that werent all of those people, in a flash, went away.