Armie Hammer Says He’s “Broke” But “Happier Than Ever” After Sexual Assault Allegations: “It Was A Brutal Experience”

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Armie Hammer was accused of sexual abuse in early 2021 and his Hollywood career came to a screeching halt.

More than two years after he was “canceled,” an investigation into the Call Me by Your Name actor brought no charges against him by the LA District Attorney due to “insufficient evidence.”

Hammer is reflecting on the allegations and made an appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random where he revealed he’s “broke” but “happier than ever.”

“The good place only comes from walking through hell,” he said. “It was a brutal experience.”

He continued, “Someone might look at me and go, ‘Yeah, but financially you are in a very different position that you’ve ever been in your entire life.’ And I look at that and I go, ‘Yeah, and you know what, it’s taught me is that I don’t need that because I’ve never been happier than I’ve ever been in my entire life.’”

Hammer also noted that he is now sober after he entered rehab to battle his addictions to drugs, alcohol and sex.

“Therapy for me has been a life changer,” he said. “I needed an adjustment. There was some s*** going on. Here’s what I think would have happened had none of this gone on and like the cataclysmic tectonic shift in my life wouldn’t have happened. My life would have kept going exactly as it was, and I know that would ultimately only lead in one place and that’s death.”

He added, “I experienced an ego death, a career death, a financial death – all of these things, right? And [Carl] Jung talks about this. Joseph Campbell talks about this. You’ve got to die, and once you die you can then be reborn. A phoenix isn’t going to rise if there’s no ashes.”

The Social Network actor said that when he was drinking, he “was doing a lot of drugs. I was partying hard. I was being real fast and loose about what I put in text messages and I was also engaging in risky behavior that, if you really think about it, was stupid!”

Watch Hammer’s full interview in the video below.