Armie Hammer becomes trending topic after graphic Instagram DMs he's accused of sending are leaked

A woman who has accused Armie Hammer of sending vile Instagram messages based on cannibalism and rape claims a photo of his tattooed hand proves he is responsible.  

Hammer, 34, began trending on Twitter across Sunday night after a series of screenshots showing graphic messages he’d allegedly penned to a woman were leaked by the anonymous, now-private Instagram account, House of Effie.

The messages, said to be sent between 2016 and February 2020, include conversations about BDSM, in addition to numerous sexual references to cannibalistic acts and blood-sucking. 

In one message, the actor allegedly writes to the woman: ‘I am 100% a cannibal. I want to eat you.’ 

‘F**k. That’s scary to admit,’ the message continues. ‘I’ve never admitted that before.’ 

The messages have not yet been verified and Hammer is still yet to speak publicly on the matter, despite multiple requests for comment. 

However, in an attempt to prove their authenticity, the anonymous woman behind the leak has shared a photo she claims to have received during her purported exchange with Hammer, which shows a tattoo on his ring finger.

The image shared shows a male’s hand splayed out across a script on a wooden table, and purports to have been sent from Hammer’s Instagram account in an undated message.

Hammer has a similar looking tattoo on his finger, having previously had the initials of his ex-wife Rebecca Chambers inked on his ring finger shortly after they married in October 2010, according to Vogue.

The pair were still married at the time the alleged messages from Hammer were apparently sent to the woman. They announced their divorce after 10 years in the summer of 2020.

Fans of the Call Me By Your Name star, 34, have voiced skepticism over the authenticity of the messages, insisting they appear to be fake, according to a report from Just Jared.   

DailyMail.com has reached out to Hammer’s reps for comment but has not yet received a response.

The messages were leaked over the weekend, when the anonymous woman said she shared a video that referenced her alleged interactions with Hammer, prompting other women to come forward with similar stories.

In another exchange, the account purported to belong to Hammer writes to the woman: ‘If you were next to me I’d give you the tiniest cut, and fall back asleep sucking on it.’  

A separate correspondence alleged to be from February 2020 reads: ‘I’d chase you down and pounce on you so fast if you tried to walk away. 

‘Fuuuuu**. You’ll need something strong to hold me back from you.’ 

An audio clip has also surfaced on Twitter, which purports to document Hammer speaking in reference to ‘risque’ messages he’d sent to someone in the midst of a ‘kink-based’ relationship.

In the clip, the male voice is heard saying: ‘They were very risqué dms with someone I was involved with in very much a sort of kink-based relationship, if you will.

‘So a lot of s**t was said that also most people don’t relate to. It’s kink, its niche, it’s fetish – so that’s bad.

‘So if that wasn’t bad enough, imagine this: You’re having sex with someone and you say something in the heat of the moment … if someone comes up to you and says “Oh my god, I heard you said this…” out of context, out of the heat of the moment, out of that safe place where it sounds perfect to say – it’s a little cringey.’ 

Hammer previously made headlines of a similar nature in 2017, after he liked a series of tweets about BDSM sex acts. 

Hammer, best known for his acclaimed role in 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, has appeared in recent years in films including On the Basis of Sex, Sorry to Bother You and the upcoming Death on the Nile.

In an interview with Playboy magazine in 2013, he lifted the lid on his ‘wild’ sexual habits with women in previous relationships, telling the outlet: ‘Well, if you’re married to a feminist as I am, then it’s…. I don’t know how much we can put here without my parents being embarrassed, but I used to like to be a dominant lover.

‘I liked the grabbing of the neck and the hair and all that. But then you get married and your sexual appetites change. And I mean that for the better – it’s not like I’m suffering in any way. But you can’t really pull your wife’s hair. It gets to a point where you say, “I respect you too much to do these things that I kind of want to do.”’

Hammer later blamed what he called ‘over-sharing’ about his past sexual exploits on alcohol.

‘Let’s just say hindsight is 20/20. Don’t drink during an interview,’ he told E! News.

However, in an interview with Elle later the same year, he claimed a former girlfriend once tried to stab him in bed.

‘One chick tried to stab me when we were having sex,’ Hammer said. ‘I should so not be telling this story. She was like, “True love leaves scars. You don’t have any.” And then she tried to stab me with a butcher knife,’ he added. ‘Of course I promptly broke up with her…seven months later.’  

The star and estranged wife Elizabeth Chambers, 38, split this past July after 10 years of marriage; they are parents to two children, daughter Harper, six, and son Ford, three.

Late last month, he traveled to the Cayman Islands to reunite with his family, quarantining for the requisite 14-day period prior to reuniting with his children. 

The actor has been posting updates from his Cayman Islands trips in recent weeks, including a shirtless video of himself enjoying a drink on Christmas Eve.

He also shared a snap on the beach with friends and family as he rang in the New Year in the idyllic spot, adding that ‘as a New Years resolution I will not be posting pictures of my children for their safety and for their well-being.’

Armie quit Twitter in 2017 after a ‘bitter AF’ Buzzfeed article was written about him. 

But the actor rejoined the social networking site in January 2018, joking alcohol may have had something to do with his decision.

‘They should put a blood alcohol measuring device on cell phones to keep you from drunkenly reactivating your Twitter…’ wrote The Social Network star.  

Within a day of reactivating, Hammer was already getting into online squabbles.

One user tagged the father-of-two in a tweet that claimed that Hammer’s ‘Oscar campaign crashed and burned’.

The California native retorted: ‘Your tweet got one like… doesn’t seem like you can do much of anything.’  

Armie previously discussed quitting Twitter while speaking to Vulture in November 2017, after being embarrassed by a clip of him dancing in Call Me by Your Name went viral. 

‘Anytime I would open up my Twitter, it was just a ton of that,’ he said, ‘and I was like, ‘Nope, I can’t have my nose rubbed in this anymore. I’m out!”

In October Armie opened up about the restless early days of the coronavirus pandemic, and how he sought help.

The 34-year-old actor, chatting with British GQ’s Heroes series, said he was not in a good place earlier in the year amid international shutdowns in response to the spread of COVID-19. 

‘I think like everyone else on the planet, I felt like the rug was ripped from under my feet,’ said the Santa Monica, California native. ‘And I felt like I could feel it happening in slow-motion, like the rug was just being ripped from my feet and I was falling face-first and I was gonna smash my face on the ground. 

‘I felt like I was in a state of like, free fall almost, like it was just, it was really difficult.’

The actor, who had spent the earlier part of the lockdown in the Cayman Islands, acknowledged his privileged lifestyle in saying his wealthy background did not diminish the mental anguish he was experiencing. 

‘I know there are people that had it way harder than I did,’ he said, ‘but it’s all subjective, you can only deal with your own reality and mine was felt like it was falling apart.’

He added: That’s a really kind of scary place but at the same time it’s a place of change in change is the only universal constant. Change is scary, but at the same time, change always precipitates growth and it was the time to grow.’

The On the Basis of Sex actor said
he felt the lockdown, which caused many to hunker down in their homes, presented either ‘a time to grow or a time to implode,’ and that ‘without paying attention,’ he ‘started down the path down completely imploding.’

Hammer said he’d let his ‘mental health lapse’ in ‘allowing [himself] to end up in positions or situations that [he] knew were detrimental.’

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. actor said change came in the form of a wake up call he had, and that he finally reached out for help.

‘I had a very intense wake up call one day and I realize that I needed more help than I realized,’ he said. ‘So I called a friend of mine, Brendan, who works in mental health and I was like, “Dude, it’s not good. It’s not good for me,” and he goes, “I know, it’s not good for anyone,” and I go, “Yeah, but really not good for me, like I’m having a really hard time. I don’t know what the answer to this is.”‘ 

Hammer said his friend ‘ended up getting [him] on the phone with a therapist who [he] started working with multiple times a week just to get me through sort of like the crisis aspect of what was going on.’