Armie Hammer Sells Truck as He Can’t Afford Gas, Starts New Life in LA

Armie Hammer introduced he’s beginning “a brand new life in Los Angeles” in a video posted to Instagram Tuesday, through which he says he should promote his truck as a result of he “can’t afford the fuel anymore.”

“I’ve been again in L.A. for a few weeks now,” Hammer says within the video, taken at a California CarMax location. “That is my truck. I purchased this for myself in 2017 as a Christmas present for myself, as a result of I’ve had pickup vans for a very long time, and I’ve beloved this truck intensely and brought it tenting and throughout nation a number of instances and on lengthy street journeys. … Since being again in L.A., I’ve put about $400 or $500 value of fuel in it, and I can’t afford it.”

Hammer was dwelling (and dealing as a timeshare salesman) within the Cayman Islands after he turned a pariah in Hollywood because of sexual abuse allegations introduced towards him in 2021. On account of the allegations — which included rape, participating in cannibalism fantasies and coercing companions into BDSM situations — the “Social Community” and “Name Me by Your Identify” actor exited a number of initiatives, was dropped by his publicist and agent and have become the topic of an LAPD investigation. Finally, no prison expenses have been introduced towards Hammer, who has denied the allegations and maintained that every one relationships have been consensual.

In current months, Hammer has returned to the media highlight, taking interviews on Invoice Maher’s “Membership Random” podcast, Tom Arnold’s “Painful Classes” present and “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” He has held that every one sexual assault allegations are unfaithful whereas admitting to different “shitty habits” equivalent to dishonest on his spouse and “[using] folks to make me really feel higher.” Hammer mentioned that being “canceled” and exiled from the leisure business was “liberating,” however he has additionally introduced that he wrote a screenplay that mirrors his life and is hoping to return to filmmaking.

“Right here’s to new beginnings,” Hammer mentioned within the video posted Tuesday. “It’s my birthday tomorrow. So, August 28 I will likely be beginning my birthday in a brand new automotive, in a brand new residence, in a brand new life in Los Angeles.”

He mirrored on varied recollections related to the truck, together with driving his new child kids dwelling from the hospital. “Thanks very a lot,” he mentioned, tapping the steering wheel. “You’ve got me a great distance, and I recognize all of it. I hope that you just take pretty much as good of care of the following particular person.”

Hammer mentioned he already received a brand new automotive, a “tiny” hybrid that can in all probability require solely “10 bucks of fuel in it a month.” “I simply hold telling myself that parking goes to be simpler and fuel goes to be cheaper,” he mentioned.