Armie Hammer's ex Courtney Vucekovich says he wanted to ‘barbecue and eat’ her amid viral cannibal outrage
Armie Hammer's latest ex has claimed that being with him was like dating a wannabe Hannibal Lecter who often fantasized about roasting and devouring her body parts. Speaking to Page Six, app founder Courtney Vucekovich recalled how Hammer had once told her he wanted to "break my rib and barbecue and eat it."
“‘F–k that was weird,’ but you never think about it again,” she said of glossing over the obvious red flags 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 latest claims come just days after Hammer became the center of a viral cannibal outrage when direct messages allegedly sent by the actor described his fantasies of rape and cannibalism. In one screengrab shared by anonymous Instagram account House of Effie, Hammer allegedly asked someone if she would let him “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.” Meanwhile, another message shows him describing himself as “100 percent a cannibal.”
Vucekovich, who founded the “on-demand glam” app Flashd and dated Hammer from June to August, did not confirm whether those exchanges were legitimate - albeit she admitted they weren't surprising. “He likes the idea of skin in his teeth,” she told Page Six.
Vucekovich further explained how her relationship with Hammer was not only "weird and gross but also emotionally abusive." “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, told Page Six.
Intimidated by Hammer's presence, charm, and charisma, Vucekovich soon realized she was submitting to the 'Rebecca' star physically and emotionally despite being manipulated and gaslit. “He quickly grooms you in the relationship,” she explained. “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.”
Furthermore, Vucekovich described Hammer as 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.”
Some of Hammer's past controversial quotes about his sex life have now resurfaced in light of the troubling alleged messages. “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 magazine 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 added. However, Hammer later claimed he was drunk at the time of the interview.