The aunt of Hollywood actor Armie Hammer says she wasn’t shocked when allegations of rape surfaced on the internet.
“To be honest with you I really wasn’t surprised or shocked,” Casey Hammer told Insider. “You don’t just wake up one day and become a monster,” Casey Hammer said. “It’s a learned behavior and again, that’s why I wasn’t shocked by a lot of what was happening.
Last year, a woman, known as Effie, stepped forward to accuse him of violently raping her in 2017 when she was just 20.
“During those four hours, I tried to get away, but he wouldn’t let me,” said Effie. “I thought that he was going to kill me. He then left with no concern for my well-being. I was completely in shock, and he couldn’t believe this, what I loved. He did that to me.”
She added, “I lost interest in living. I just wanted the pain to stop.”
Effie said she will be giving evidence of the rape, including photos of her injuries, to law enforcement.
New docuseries, House of Hammer, premieres today on Discovery+, and details the alleged abuse carried out by the Hammer lineage men.
Armie Hammer denies the allegations against him.
“From day one, Mr Hammer has maintained that all of his interactions with [the accuser] – and every other sexual partner of his for that matter – have been completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory. [Her] attention-seeking and ill-advised legal bid will only make it more difficult for real victims of sexual violence to get the justice they deserve,” Hammer’s attorney said in a statement to The Guardian at the time of the scandal.
