Last week, Armie Hammer made an attempt at returning to the spotlight, sitting down for his first interview in two years, following multiple allegations of alleged psychological and physical abuse, including sexual assault, from women in 2020. The piece, in which Hammer tries to deflect and absolve himself of blame, was received by the public like a bunch of led balloons. And in the days following, his ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, showed him how it’s done.
Likely given a head’s up of Hammer’s return to the spotlight, Chambers organised her own tell-all, in which she opens up about finding out about his infidelity and the allegations against him, the beginning of their marriage breakdown, which happened prior, as well as how she’s moving forward with her life today.
Speaking with Elle, Chambers, who released a statement at the time of the allegations in 2020 supporting victims, said she had no clue about anything Hammer has been accused of before the wider world did. “I was learning things as the public was,” she said. “I was like, ‘There are no words. What the fuck?’”
Later in the interview, Chambers, who married Hammer in 2010, added, “The last thing I ever want to do is let someone else’s actions, which have nothing to do with me, make me angry,” she commented at another point in the interview. “It’s not going to help me, and it’s not going to help anyone around me.”
Chambers revealed the pair had broken up before the allegations came to light and that she had filed for divorce mid-2020 due to Hammer leaving her and her children in the Cayman Islands to go back to the US to help a friend work on a motel. “My heart was broken in nine million pieces, and I still drove him to the airport,” she said, adding Hammer was “the worst” during lockdown with their family. She also casually revealed the couple saw marriage counsellor Ester Perel, host of the popular podcast Where Should We Begin?, for “most of” their marriage.
“You can give, you can love, you can be there for someone, but you also need to hold people accountable for their actions,” she said, before adding, “the dissolution of my family was literally my biggest fear of my whole life.”
“You’re building something, right? You’re weaving a beautiful tapestry, and the last thing you want is for a knife to come and rip the tapestry in half.”
Chambers added she still sees Hammer in a co-parenting and non-romantic way for the benefit of their children, Harper and Ford. She’s also happily in love and plans to leave the Cayman Islands to focus on her bakery and upcoming cookbook in L.A.
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