Armie Hammer Responds To Instagram DM Scandal, Withdraws From Movie Role

Days after rumors started circulating on social media about Armie Hammer sending direct messages calling himself a “cannibal” and fantasizing about ingesting blood, the actor has issued a not-quite response.

The 34-year-old actor evaded addressing the state of affairs’s specifics in an announcement to E! News and withdrew his participation in an upcoming movie, “Shotgun Wedding.”

“I’m not responding to these bullshit claims, but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot, in good conscience now, leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,” Hammer stated within the assertion. “Lionsgate is supporting me in this and I’m grateful to them for that.”

A manufacturing spokesperson for the movie informed Variety in a separate assertion that “Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision.”

Hammer’s response follows a number of alleged victims sharing on social media what they declare to be graphic sexual direct messages despatched by the actor on Instagram.

In a sequence of unverified messages alleged to be despatched by Hammer, the “Rebecca” actor seems to say he’s “100% a cannibal,” and is concerned about ingesting blood and kink-based relationships.

Many of the purported DMs with Hammer have been disclosed anonymously and there was a lot discuss on social media of a few of them being falsified. A DM circulated on Sunday with the Instagram account @houseofeffie, who had shared alleged DMs from Hammer on-line, the place the Instagram consumer “admitted” the whole lot they shared was “fake.”

A day later, @houseofeffie stated publicly that the posts shared have been actual and “crazy fans went so far as to fake a DM by me.”

Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, who reportedly dated Hammer final yr, backed @houseofeffie and stated publicly she believed the DMs to be “real.”

Henriquez later tweeted: “I’m seeing a lot of posts going around about how I am a man-hater and I would just like to clarify: Yes. I love women, I respect women … I stand by women, and I hate men who don’t.” She has since made her account non-public.