LOVE BITES!
Ex: H’wood star fantasized about eating me
“The Social Network” star Armie Hammer “said to me he want[ed] to break my rib and barbecue and eat it,” said entrepreneur Courtney Vucekovich (above), who dated the actor last summer. Other women have accused Hammer of having a cannibalism fetish.
HOLLYWOOD star Armie Hammer’s ex-girlfriend says their romance was like dating a Hannibal Lecter wannabe — as the actor’s idea of pillow talk was fantasizing about which of her body parts he’d like to roast and devour.
“He said to me he wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it,” app founder Courtney Vucekovich exclusively told Page Six.
“‘F- -k, that was weird,’ but you never think about it again,” she said of overlooking the odd behavior at the time. “He says, I want to take a bite out of you. If I had a little cut on my hand he’d like suck it or lick it. That’s about as weird as we got.”
The claims by Vucekovich, known for creating the “on-demand glam” app Flashd, come days after Hammer, 34, became the center of outrage when direct messages he allegedly sent describing rape fantasies and cannibalism went viral.
In one, shared by anonymous Instagram account House of Effie, Hammer allegedly asked a partner if he could “cut off one of your toes and keep it with me in my pocket so I always had a piece of you in my possession.”
In another, he allegedly described himself as “100 per cent a cannibal.”
While Vucekovich, who dated Hammer from June to August, couldn’t confirm whether those screenshots were legitimate, she said they were no surprise.
“He likes the idea of skin in his teeth,” she said.
VUCEKOVICH tells Page Six that her relationship with the “Call Me by Your Name” actor was not only weird and gross but also emotionally abusive.
She met the striking 6-foot-5 actor at Monkey Bar in Dallas, after which he followed her on Instagram. Six months later, he reached out for a date.
“He enters your life in such a big way. He’s such a captivating person. He has such a presence, and he’s aware of that, and he uses it in such a way that most women would think, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is amazing,’ but especially young women. That’s kind of the scary part — how good he is at active manipulation and making you feel like he’s never felt this way about anybody,” Vucekovich, 30, said.
With the “Rebecca” actor’s overpowering presence, charm and charisma, Vucekovich found herself submitting to Hammer physically and emotionally, only to realize she was being manipulated and gaslit.
“He quickly grooms you in the relationship,”
she said. “He kind of captivates you, and while being charming, he’s grooming you for these things that are darker and heavier and consuming. When I say consuming, I mean mentally, physically, emotionally, financially, just everything.”
Vucekovich claims Hammer is a “chameleon” who transforms into “exactly who you need him to be.”
“He sucks out all the goodness you have left,” she said. “That’s what he did to me. I gave and gave and gave until it hurt.”
Eventually, Hammer’s behavior turned “obsessive,” Vucekovich claims. At one point, she and Hammer spent three weeks together, 24/7, and when they weren’t together, she says he would text her 100 times per day.
“I wasn’t safe,” she realized. “He kind of makes it like, ‘I’m going to teach you things.’ I’m smarter than that, but where was I during that? I knew the whole time. I had this gut feeling the whole time that this was not right. He’s not well.”
Vucekovich claims “The Social Network” actor would drink and do drugs “all the time,” which left her feeling compromised and scared.
“He did some things with me that I wasn’t comfortable with,” she said. “For God knows what reason he convinced me that these things were OK, and he put me in some dangerous situations where I was not OK, where he was heavily drinking, and I wasn’t drinking that way and it scared me. I didn’t feel comfortable.”
She added, “You end up doing things that are very out of character for you, including sex acts.”
Vucekovich declined to name the sexual acts because she didn’t want them to overshadow the toll Hammer’s emotional abuse took on her.
She describes Hammer as one of the “most broken” people she’s ever met.
“He makes you feel bad for him, and that’s really scary and keeps you [close to him],” she explained.
AT one point, Vucekovich found herself paying for everything, including gas for his truck, because he’s allegedly broke. Hammer’s wife, Elizabeth Chambers, filed for divorce in July, and the actor has been living in a friend’s guest house. “He needs you,” she said. “He actually needs you. “It’s a full-time job when you’re with him the way that I was,” she explained.
“I was trying to catch my breath the entire time I was with him. You’re drowning in this dark hole trying to stay afloat. There will be random moments of good that convince you to stay.”
Vucekovich said the relationship ended following an explosive fight and Hammer left.
“He blows up [women’s] lives like that and walks away,” she said.
Following their breakup, Vucekovich found herself having panic attacks thinking about what she endured in their volatile relationship. Her chest hurt and she struggled to breathe, so she checked herself into a 30-day partial hospitalization program for PTSD and trauma.
“I didn’t want to carry that into my future,” she told Page Six.
“As a strong mentalhealth advocate, I knew that this relationship was something I needed to process with help from people who specialize in trauma and PTSD. That is my experience.”
Vucekovich says therapy was the key to her recovery.
“Therapy is really helpful after healing from any kind of abuse,” she said. “You don’t want to take that trauma with you.”
A rep for Hammer didn’t respond to numerous requests for comment, although the actor called the viral DM allegations “bulls--t” in response to news that he was stepping away from his romcom with Jennifer Lopez, “Shotgun Wedding.”
“I’m not responding to these bulls- -t 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 said in a statement to Page Six, adding, “Lionsgate is supporting me in this, and I’m grateful to them for that.”
Hammer is holed up in the Cayman Islands, where his two kids — Harper, 6, and Ford, 3 — have been living with Chambers since the start of the pandemic. He’s been fighting for joint custody of the children in their divorce proceedings.
In light of the troubling alleged messages, Hammer’s past quotes about his sex life have resurfaced.
“I liked the grabbing of the neck and the hair and all that. But then you get married and your sexual appetites change,” he told Playboy in 2013. “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.’ ”
He later claimed in a separate interview that he was drunk at the time of the interview.
He said to me he wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it. — Courtney Vucekovich, on her ex-boyfriend Armie Hammer (with her above)
TWO days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Earlier last year, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted out a call to his followers to destroy Israel. Both tweets passed the censorship rules of Twitter’s 20something judges in San Francisco.
In contrast, Trump has been banned for life from Twitter and barred indefinitely from Facebook. Twitter said in a statement that it excluded Trump “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
The president had called for thousands of his followers to assemble at a massive Washington, DC, rally protesting the results of the election. Splinter groups broke off from the massed protesters. Some stormed into the halls of Congress. Social-media platforms canceled Trump after he urged his followers — albeit “peacefully and patriotically” — to go protest at the US Capitol, where the mayhem followed.
After the assault — and after Democrats won the presidency, kept the House, took the Senate and threatened to pack the Supreme Court — furor broke out against Trump. The outrage included the banning of Trump and some of his supporters from social media.
Thousands of scared social-media users then retreated to the more conservative site Parler. But in near-unison, Google, Apple and Amazon removed Parler from their platforms.
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri had his upcoming book — a call to clamp down on Big Tech monopolies — abruptly canceled by publisher Simon & Schuster. Hawley’s crime was apparently his quixotic persistence in questioning the authenticity of the 2020 election.
What are the new standards that now get a book or a social-media account canceled?
After all, the Vicky Osterweil book “In Defense of Looting,” a justification for theft and property destruction, came out last summer amid the Antifa and Black Lives Matter unrest. The author was even featured on NPR in a largely sympathetic interview.
Is Madonna banned from social media? Shortly after the 2017 inauguration, she voiced a desire to blow up the White House with the Trump family in it.
Is AK-47-toting rapper Raz Simone banned from social media? He took over a swath of downtown Seattle last June and declared it an autonomous zone. For weeks, his armed guards reigned supreme without worry of police. There were at least four shootings and two deaths in or around Simone’s kingdom. He was neither prosecuted nor de platformed from social media. The lyrics of his song “Shoot at Everyone” are full
of racial slurs, stereotypes and allusions to violence. The song is posted on YouTube, and Simone still enjoys a large social-media presence.
So why did Big Tech, the media, the publishing industry, a host of corporations and a growing number of campuses double down on censoring some free speech? Why blacklist, censor and cancel thousands of people now?
True, Trump gave them an opening when some rogue supporters vandalized the Capitol. But the real reason is that the left has long been eager to curtail the speech of those it opposes. Last week simply offered members of the left the sort of perfect crisis that they determined should never go to waste.
With a defeated Trump on the way out, and with control over the levers of government, leftists abruptly settled all their old scores. Their aim was not just to humiliate opponents but to curtail opponents’ ability to organize against them.
Democrats applauded the censorship. And why not? In a few weeks, they will likely seek to end the Senate filibuster. In revolutionary fashion, they may try to admit new states, pack the Supreme Court and end the Electoral College — moves designed to emasculate their conservative opposition.
Over a century ago, the oil, railroad, telegraph and power industries created huge monopolies. They set up vertically integrated cartels. And they used their enormous profits to lavish gifts on politicians, control information and destroy competition.
Some people likened these huge trusts to octopuses whose tentacles strangled freedom. In reaction, angry workers and farmers, muckraking journalists and novelists and crusading populist and progressive politicians passed antitrust laws.
And so they broke up the monopolies.
Today, however, progressive politicians, Wall Street, the media, academia, Hollywood and professional sports are all on the side of the megarich tech cartels. Partnering with Big Tech is both politically useful and financially lucrative.
So the values of the 19thcentury rail and oil monopolies are back. But now they are married to the 20th-century leftist totalitarianism of George Orwell’s “1984.” And they are further powered by the 21st-century instant reach of the Internet. This time around there will be no progressive trustbusters or muckrakers. They are in league with, or bought off by, the new electronic octopus. And its tentacles are strangling the thoughts and speech of an increasingly unfree America.