Elizabeth Chambers says her estranged husband Armie Hammer is “targeted on his therapeutic” amid sexual assault allegations, a damning three-part documentary, and their divorce.
“Armie has been targeted on his therapeutic,” Chambers, 40, instructed E! Information in her most candid interview but. “There’s the oxygen masks concept: You possibly can’t actually care for somebody till you’re taken care of. There is a cause on the airplane they are saying, ‘Safe your personal masks earlier than serving to others.’ He has been very busy securing his personal masks. My masks has been secured, [the kids’] masks are on, so proper now it is actually been lots about specializing in them, defending them.”
Chambers and Hammer, 36, began relationship in 2008 and wed in 2010. They share two youngsters – Harper, seven, and Ford, 5 – and introduced their cut up in 2020. In 2021, Hammer was accused of sexual assault, and allegedly sending a number of girls graphic textual content messages about his sexual fantasies, which included mutilation, cannibalism and rape. Hammer’s attorneys have denied all allegations repeatedly.
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Months later, he reportedly checked right into a rehabilitation facility for sexual and substance points, and by December 2021, he had checked out.
Chambers stated that all through Hammer engaged on himself, she’s “right here to assist that course of” so he is usually a good mum or dad.
”It may make him the very best father, the very best particular person he might be. On the finish of the day, that is the aim,” Chambers stated. “We’re in fixed communication and all that issues is that he’s the very best dad for our kids. Clearly he processes all the pieces else that he is coping with personally – and that is his personal journey now.”
Chambers stated the previous couple’s divorce shouldn’t be finalised, nevertheless, they’re “in a very excellent place.”
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”We speak on a regular basis,” she stated. “We’re dedicated totally and wholly to our kids, and to being collectively as a lot as attainable in a non-romantic means for our youngsters. Youngsters want their mum; youngsters want their dad. So there’s nothing we cannot do.”
On the identical time, Chambers is conscious of the media and public scrutiny surrounding Hammer, particularly within the wake of Discovery+’s Home of Hammer documentary sequence, which premiered in early September.
Within the documentary, a number of girls got here ahead with allegations surrounding Hammer. Courtney Vucekovich claimed she was in a relationship with Hammer from late 2019 to September 2020, and alleged Hammer instructed her he and Chambers had been separated for nearly two years. She additionally claimed he pressured her into collaborating in his BDSM fantasies.
Julia Morrison, in the meantime, alleged that Hammer contacted her on social media as he was serious about a photograph sequence she had performed, which confirmed her being choked. Paige Lorenze’s 2021 YouTube video was additionally revisited within the documentary, which included allegations of cannibalism.
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Chambers stated that though she didn’t plan on watching Home of Hammer, she ended up watching it “with my assist system round me” whereas her youngsters have been in school.
”It was clearly heartbreaking on so many ranges and really painful,” she stated. “However on the identical time, it exists. The previous is the previous and all we are able to do is take this as a second to be taught and hear, and hopefully course of and heal in each capability.”
”I take into account myself a feminist and stand in solidarity with anybody who has been a sufferer of any type and hope they discover therapeutic,” Chambers stated. “I am not being right here, like, ‘My life is wonderful,’ as a result of it has been hell for a very long time.”
Chambers, nevertheless, is transferring on from the damage, talking briefly about her relationship with wellness therapist Ricardas Kazinec.
“You go from feeling your coronary heart is shattered in 9 million items, and it is wrapped in each sort of solid and gauze, and nothing can contact it, to being like, ‘OK, I feel I can love and be beloved once more,'” she stated. “So, I’m very comfortable.”
Should you or somebody you already know is impacted by sexual assault, name 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or go to their web site. In an emergency, name 000.
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