01x03 - Follow the Money

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The Hammer

men, you just don't know

what's hiding behind their

personality or behind their demeanor.

And it's really

apparent with Armie.

What's coming out publicly

about the love bombing and

the texting and the controlling.

I'm not surprised

by any of that.

And it weirds and

scares a lot of people,

but for me it's really familiar.

If you believe about

making deals with the devil,

the Hammers are

top of the totem pole.

After the documentary was

announced before we started filming,

I received a text.

And it was a friend.

She said

I have this reoccurring dream.

It starts with this motel sign.

But in my dream, the

motel just keeps going.

Something worse is

happening in each room.

And I can't get the f*ck out.

There's no way out.

You have to go through

the whole thing again.

The scenario with the ropes in Sedona

was six days before I met his mom.

After that, it was horrible.

I completely disassociated.

It was like I wanted to

get as far away from him,

as far away from

what had happened.

I always keep a journal.

This piece is something

I wrote on my way

to my first treatment

center on October 5th.

This is on the plane.

"I surrendered

to him 100 percent,

gave him anything

good I had left.

What in the f*ck

is wrong with you?

He used me in every way humanly

possible for months and I f*cking let him.

I feel absolutely numb and

small and disgusting and ugly."

While I was in rehab

Some idiot texted me,

"Armie has a new girlfriend."

And I looked her up.

The first thing I saw,

she was really young.

She's gorgeous.

But she posted a picture, it

was like, kind of a lingerie picture.

She had bruises

all over her arms,

her chest, her legs.

I could see the bruises and I

knew exactly what that picture was.

You know, he says, "Wear

it like a badge of honor."

My heart f*cking sank

because I was like,

"He's gonna do this

to somebody who's 22 years old.

What he just did

to me." I was 30.

She's 22.

I know how it is

in the beginning.

And I just like, I knew

what she felt at the time.

She looked so happy, like

I was there.

He was on to the

next one who's

Younger? Maybe more naive?

Maybe more

impressed with his fame?

It was He was

off to do it to her.

I had just got out of a two

year really long relationship

when I moved to LA. I had

never been to LA before.

That was um, my second

time ever going. So

My first impressions of him

were extremely charming.

Just captivated the room.

He was just full of life.

Loving, charismatic.

Kind of the person that

we see in the interviews

and the person that

we see on the screen.

Armie, turn your head for me.

And he really was

so all consuming

and he made me feel

like it was a safe space.

Made me feel this was

normal. He made me feel like

this was gonna be fun and sexy.

He carried safety pins,

Shibari rope, knives

Uh, like a paddle.

Just a lot of the BDSM tools.

He would always travel

with it wherever we went

and whenever he came

over to my home in LA.

He said he wanted to find a doctor in

Los Angeles to remove both my ribs.

He wanted to eat my ribs.

He wanted to smoke them.

He was obsessed with meat.

I brushed it off, but I do

believe that he was serious.

He would set up things

called high protocol nights.

He'd set up a night

with very strict rules

and it's all built around

like, inflicting pain

on the submissive one in

the relationship, which was me.

I didn't know what BDSM was,

so I thought that that was normal.

To me, it's obvious that

Armie Hammer chose people

who didn't have any

experience in BDSM

because it gives

him an advantage

to prey upon these people.

Because they're

more easily coerced

because they don't

know what BDSM really is.

I had no idea what

I was getting into.

And looking back, it's

like, very dangerous.

The traditional motto of BDSM

is safe, sane and consensual.

Most commonly in the

dom-sub relationship,

the scenes are all centered

around the sub's fantasies.

Safety and trust

are right there.

It's the foundation of

the BDSM relationship.

On

One of these high protocol nights,

I was tied up, and he basically

looked over my body and said to me,

"Where should I put

my initials on you?"

And then he just started

to carve his initial into me.

And I just didn't say anything.

It was bleeding

and he was licking it,

drinking kind of like, blood.

Yeah, that's heavy.

The part that stands out to me is,

you know, him coming to her and said,

"Where should I put

my initials on you?"

And then, he just

proceeded to cut her.

So there was no negotiations

before the scene about it.

She is in a very

vulnerable position

because she is

feeling submissive,

she's in a state of

wanting to please him

and she doesn't want

to say no in the moment.

I was in a weak position

and he was in a

position of power.

He knew how uncomfortable it

made me, but I just never said no.

And I think that kind of

being coerced into things

and we just don't

want to say no.

We don't want to be undesirable.

It's traumatizing.

I was vulnerable.

I was groomed by him.

Someone who's getting

off on somebody else's fear,

when that person feels

uncomfortable about it,

is not a kinkster doing BDSM.

That person is an ab*ser.

And that's

very sad to think about.

When you look back and you realize

it was just abuse and manipulation.

It wasn't somebody

that cared for you

and you just like, fell into

their trap so gracefully.

When the

abuse allegations came out,

it was a mixture of

shocked and not shocked.

I had an opportunity to

work with Armie Hammer.

What I had experienced was nothing

compared to what they had experienced.

But the same kind of

qualities were there.

Basically every story I have to

tell about him can be rooted in,

"I control you 'cause

you're my employee."

Armie puts on this

beautiful face to everybody.

I was just trying to make a damn movie.

Everybody just needs to calm down.

You'd work

with him the entire movie

and never see

through that facade.

Behind closed

doors, it's different.

There was one instance

where he told me

that this old friend of

his was coming into town

and he wanted me to go to

the airport and hold up a sign

in the airport that

said, "f*gg*t."

I have chills actually

thinking about it right now.

If I said no to him

about something,

he'd try and find

ways to shame me.

And this time he took

a poll from everybody.

"Should I fire him because he

won't do what I told him to do?"

I was a big kind

of joke or whatever.

And he kept really pushing

and pushing and pushing

because he

thought it'd be funny.

We ended up at

a strip club once.

10 a.m. on a Tuesday, me and Armie

and other actors and other crew members

and lording his position and

my position over my head,

forced me into

getting a lap dance.

I was very against

it. I didn't want to do it.

I felt incredibly

uncomfortable with it.

But he basically ended up

again saying, "I'm your superior.

You need to do this."

And so, he made me believe

that I had no choice.

I could have walked away,

but you just get scared

of the stature of it all.

The job title and the person.

- You do dangerous things?

- Yeah, I mean I like to, yeah.

It just snowballed.

We would get into his car and

then we would do 140 miles-an-hour

like, through residential

streets while he was inebriated.

And it would

scare me like crazy.

My wife, uh, for the

longest time was convinced

that I had what she

called a frontal lobe issue

which I guess she says that's where

you assess risk and danger and all that,

and she says that mine is

just severely underdeveloped.

It was just kind of

daredevil machismo and exerting power.

I just want to be helpful

to the people that need it.

There are a lot of women

that have had their lives

irreparably damaged

by all of this.

It's like Dante's Inferno.

It's gonna get worse

the deeper down you go.

At the bottom it's just Armie.

I knew Armie came from wealth.

There are stories about like, his

connection to Armand Hammer.

I would say had I chosen to

sort of follow the family's path

and gone into business, it would

have been much more advantageous.

He told me about

growing up in the Caymans.

And how his father

bought a mansion there

'cause he had seen The Firm.

That's rich people sh*t.

I feel like with a lot

of wealthy families,

there's always a

dark story there.

No one can ever be totally normal

when you have that much wealth.

And Armie's father is the

picture perfect example of that.

Michael and

Dru basically walked away

with everything after

my grandfather died.

They took control of

the Hammer Foundation,

his estate and

millions of dollars.

There were

famous rabbis at his funeral.

And he literally was supposed to

have a bar mitzvah the day after he died.

Dru's father in the middle

of Armand Hammer's funeral

declared that Armand

had changed his religion

and accepted Jesus

on his deathbed.

Dru's father says

that before Armand died,

he said, "I accept Christ."

And all these people's

jaws just fell open.

Michael Hammer

had $40 million in that trust

and he is now

taking Armand's funds

and putting them into all of

these Evangelical causes.

Christian organizations

and Christian universities.

It feels like he rewrote

the script for his grandfather

and it just doesn't seem

like things are being handled

in the way that Armand

would have wanted.

Michael technically worked for

Occidental for like another year.

And then he left Oxy.

Michael didn't want to carry on

the name from my grandfather at all.

You have Michael who is the most

Christian man out there to the public.

But at the same time

behind the scenes,

it's clear to me that there

was some really bad behavior.

Hang onto your hats, guys. The

Armie Hammer article dropped

and the tea is piping hot.

Michael Hammer, Armie's father,

it seems he may have passed

down some of his proclivity to his son.

The sex throne, I heard

about a confirmed photo.

So the sex throne's

like, seven feet tall.

And there's also the Hammer insignia,

their family crest, on the throne.

"For years, three

people claimed,

Michael boasted

about a sex throne

or naughty chair,

as he has called it,

and kept in Armand Hammer

Foundation headquarters."

There is a hook,

like a meat hook.

And I

Almost don't even want to imagine

what somebody would do with this.

Michael's lawyer came out

and said that this was a gag gift.

It seems like an awfully large gag gift and

a very customized gag gift to give someone.

Sex thrones most certainly do not

align with a Christian image.

Like father, like son.

It's such a facade.

I think

we're all seeing the pattern.

It's just generation

to generation.

We all know Armie's

public persona.

I think his team and his

family kind of curates this image

around him?

The Hammers are

very keen on presenting themselves

for public consumption

in a certain way.

And so, Armie Hammer

used the same practices

as his father, Michael,

and his great-grandfather,

Armand Hammer.

You don't see what's

going on behind the curtain.

Armand Hammer had many secrets.

When Armand Hammer died,

to my surprise, Julian Hammer

gave me a great deal of material.

He gave me all

his private papers

as well as recordings

of his father.

I think that it was because,

very simply spoken,

he hated what his father had done

to him in cutting him out of his will.

He decided that he was

gonna expose his father

as a criminal.

Occidental would have

been a very small oil company

which we wouldn't even

know the name today

except Hammer was

a master at bribery.

Armand Hammer would

go to a powerful person.

He would offer them money,

ill*gal cash bribes.

He would deliver the money.

And Julian would record the

entire crime being committed

so he could later

blackmail the person.

Yeah.

Very little

shocks me, I should say,

but the tapes he

gave me shocked me.

That's the President

of Venezuela he's bribing.

Hammer had no shame.

He ignored all laws.

Armand Hammer built

his own business empire

on a great number

of great crimes.

The extraordinary thing

about the Hammer family

is the consistency

of vice over virtue.

I shall resign the presidency

effective at noon tomorrow.

In the movie

All the President's Men,

which was about the

Watergate Scandal,

Deep Throat says,

"Follow the money."

If they did, they would have

found that it led to Armand Hammer.

Hammer routinely made ill*gal

campaign contributions to politicians.

I saw it firsthand

that the political establishment

is buyable from top to bottom.

This money was used

to pay off the Watergate burglars.

Hammer orchestrated a cover

up where other people lied.

And when that collapsed,

Hammer had to plead

guilty to a misdemeanor.

Today, Hammer pleaded

guilty of hiding contributions

to the Nixon

reelection campaign.

Having an outstanding

conviction was bad for business.

And he saw creating a

relationship with Prince Charles

Well, I am indebted

to Dr. Hammer.

as a way of making

himself respectable again.

He knew that

everybody has a price.

With Prince Charles, he just had

to discover what that price would be.

When Prince Charles and

Diana visited the United States,

their only unofficial,

non-state occasion

was the gala that

Hammer threw for them.

On the front pages of every

newspaper, every magazine,

their visit was the top story.

And in the end, Hammer

provided £40 million

to Prince Charles' causes,

which would add up to like,

a quarter of a billion today.

And Charles did see

Hammer as a source

of the funds for

everything he cared about.

How on earth do they expect us to

get anything done without money?

I will faithfully execute the office

of President of the United States.

George Bush Sr. did give

him a pardon for the Watergate Scandal.

Why did George Bush pardon him?

Hammer was a major

contributor to both political parties.

Hammer told me

his private golden rule

was the person with

the gold makes the rules.

I had reservations

about the way he presented himself.

But it was only really from '88

that my eyes were fully opened

to the lying on which

his life was based.

Now the situation

in the North Sea

where an Occidental

petroleum oil rig blew up.

Piper Alpha was a platform

owned by Occidental

in the North Sea.

It was the cornerstone

of Occidental's wealth.

Mayday! expl*si*n

and fire on the Piper Alpha.

In July 1988, there

was an accident on Piper Alpha

that was the worst accident on an

off-shore platform in the world ever.

The ensuing fire was

so severe, half the platform collapsed.

167 people died.

Within minutes, the first London

newspapers were on the phone calling me,

asking if I knew anything.

And I started to think about

how I could serve Armand

Hammer in these circumstances.

I said to Hammer, "Be the

spokesman for the corporation.

Don't duck away.

The worst thing

you can do is hide."

There were

hundreds of journalists.

And Hammer took the stage

and just gave the

performance of his life.

- Well, how do you feel personally about it?

- I feel very sad.

He was sad, he was brave,

he fronted up. He said,

"The buck stops with me,"

which was a complete falsehood.

And the press

completely swallowed it.

There was not one

skeptical question.

Nobody said to him, "This platform

has a deplorable safety record.

There's already been one

man k*lled in the recent year.

There was a mass evacuation."

And he got off exactly in

the way that he intended

and in the way

that I had devised.

We went to the airport.

Prince Charles and Princess

Diana came to the airport to meet him.

They came striding towards him

with their faces a kind of

picture of sorrow and grief.

Prince Charles puts his hand out

to shake Armand Hammer's hand.

He said, "You mustn't

blame yourself."

He got on the plane and Hammer

called to the guys on the plane.

He said, "Let's have

champagne and caviar.

We've had a great day."

So, to enlist Prince Charles

as his supporter paid off.

There were no direct

consequences whatsoever

uh, in terms of punishments

for Armand Hammer

or the board of Occidental.

Nothing at all.

Hammer took no

interest whatsoever

in the survivors

or their families.

The families of the dead.

I go back every 10 years

for the 10th anniversary

memorial services and

ceremonies around Piper Alpha.

And you see there,

um

children who didn't

know their fathers.

Grandchildren who didn't

know their grandparents.

There was no moral

defense for what I'd done.

After Piper Alpha,

I decided to get out

of my degrading

position with Hammer

as fast as I could.

I think he was the most Satanic man

of the second half of the 20th century

In terms of corrupting

the political process,

in terms of controlling people

and making them dance his tune,

there is no comparison.

Armand Hammer was

the embodiment of sin

because he was the

embodiment of ruthless ego.

After my grandfather

died, I gave up my career,

quit my job, came

back to Los Angeles,

and moved in with my father.

My father was out of control.

He slowly started deteriorating.

He would come downstairs

and he was foaming at the mouth,

which later I found out was meth

and coke and all kinds of, just, drugs.

He would be carrying

a loaded .357 magnum.

He would wake me up with

a g*n barrel on my temple

and make me open my eyes

and say, "I need to look in your

eyes to see if you're possessed.

Because if you're possessed,

I'm pulling the trigger."

My father would

have sane moments

and then just totally

volatile moments

where he was going crazy

and he wasn't getting help.

And this went on for months.

I just knew that I

needed to get out of there.

And so, I moved out.

It was just a way

to protect myself.

Hi, Casey. Come on in.

Watch your step.

I tried to move forward

and make a name for myself.

Welcome to my home.

A friend of mine was a

producer for a local news station

and she was doing a

piece called Victim No More.

I wanted to be an

actress, so I was like,

"Sure, you can film me."

You can scream,

Case. Whatever you want.

Action.

Someone came

up from behind me

Get out of the car!

Something visceral was

happening in my body

and I was so afraid that he

was going to k*ll me or hurt me.

Something took over inside of me

and I hurt him.

God dammit.

I realized I needed help.

So I went to a

psychologist in Beverly Hills

and I remember

walking in to his office

and I said, "Hi, my

name is Casey Hammer.

My grandfather was

Armand Hammer.

And I'm really f*cked up."

And we started

And then the memories started

happening when I was in therapy.

The floodgates opened.

I remembered one in

particular incident where

there was a lot of noise

and partying going on.

My brother was there as well.

My father started

sh**ting at the walls.

And then my father was

like, "Wait, I've got an idea."

And said to me, "Casey,

hold this phone book."

And I did it thinking,

"They're not going

to sh**t at me."

So, the phone book was

held up to the right of my head.

I drop the phone book.

I remember taking cover.

I started remembering

all the abuse.

Being choked and suffocated.

Then I thought, "Oh, this

can't be. Something's weird."

I remember talking to my mom

and started saying to her

what I was remembering

and hoping she would tell

me, "Oh, you're just crazy."

But it turns out, she

did know about it.

And what I was remembering

was actually happening.

Things happened to me that

shouldn't ever have

happened to a child.

Yes. And

That's all I've ever said.

Because

Maybe he's the only

person I want to see when,

I don't even think

he's in heaven,

or on the other side or

whatever you believe, but,

and that's how I know

that it's so deep and so

Like, I don't know if I'll

ever be normal because

the fact that I still

think that he'll save me

or be there for me.

I found out what

my father was doing

and I never confronted him.

Because I didn't want to

hear him say the words.

There's that hope that the

person's going to change

and that they didn't

mean to hurt you.

My father ended up dying in '96,

five years after my

grandfather died.

But, it's still so hard.

Because you want to

share your back story.

You want to explain

why you're f*cked up.

Why you're broken.

The generation I grew

up in, it was closed door.

But, you know,

it's a different time.

That was my

sentiment with Courtney.

It's incredibly brave

nowadays because

not only are you traumatized

from what he's done,

but you're probably traumatized

over and over and over.

But he needs to be

held accountable.

And I hope she finds peace

and whatever that means for her.

I went to a residential rehab.

It was based on, kind of,

what you were struggling with.

Which, they placed

me in a trauma lodge.

I had a specialty therapist.

She was like, "What's the last

time you felt really uncomfortable,

really embarrassed,

really afraid?"

Then I went into that night.

I remember the music that

was playing really vividly.

I remembered the feeling

of the ropes on my wrists.

It was just very surreal.

I felt like I was, like,

back in that room.

Back in that moment.

I got diagnosed with

trauma and PTSD.

My therapist said

I had to repeat,

"I was used, abused

and abandoned."

So, you're, like, trying to

make sense of what happened.

And that's what she had

me repeat over and over.

Like, "It's not your

fault you feel this way."

It really stuck with me.

And it really made sense.

That's truly what happened.

I was used, abused, abandoned.

Just discarded after, just,

having my life

turned inside out.

Armie Hammer's

ex-girlfriend, Courtney Vucekovich

Armie Hammer's

public accounts are going viral.

Courtney

Vucekovich has come forward

with claims against

her ex, Armie Hammer.

When all this blew up,

Paige messaged me on Instagram.

I just sent her my phone

number and she called me.

The first thing she said

was, "Why didn't you tell me?"

And then she told me her story.

It's like, holy sh*t.

It is a copy-paste.

It was the same road

trip. The same motel.

We wore the same

cowboy hat in our pictures.

We both watched that

movie, the Secretary.

I sent her the

album that he played

when he tied me

up, traumatizing me.

She goes, he played the

same exact album to her.

She was like, "Does

he call you 'little thing'?"

And I said, "Yeah,

'perfect little thing'?"

She was like, "Yeah,

'perfect little thing.'"

He says the same, he

called us the same nicknames.

She meet his mom.

She went home with him.

I mean, who just introduces

everyone to their mom?

They had known

each other a month.

I had meet her weeks prior.

We had the same relationship.

And we'd almost guarantee there

was another one that same day

that he was going

to do it again to.

And he was going

to continue this cycle,

this destructive cycle,

until he couldn't anymore.

To Armie Hammer, and

some good news for him,

involving one of, uh, the

allegations against him,

an allegation of r*pe, is looking like

that is not going to result in charges.

It's a huge slap in

the face to see something like this.

I am in shock, but

I'm not surprised.

I can assure you that

when TMZ made that report,

the case had not yet been

sent to the district attorney,

let alone dropped.

TMZ never even checked with

me before they ran that story.

It's a common PR

tactic, quite frankly.

It's like, "Okay, I'm going to

own up to having a problem,

so I'm going to

try to rectify it."

It seems Armie Hammer has quietly

hired a new PR person. Hear me out.

So, this was front page on the

Daily Mail this morning on Snapchat.

That his new girl, Lisa Perejma,

has turned Armie

Hammer's life around.

The article says, "Armie's

happier and healthier

than I've ever seen

him in a long time."

I think rehab

was his stepping stone,

trying to rebrand his image.

Of course, in the same week that

Death on the Nile is coming out,

an article saying that

Armie's really done

so much work in rehab came

out right before the movie.

"Cancel culture" is

on people's tongues

way more than "r*pe culture."

And r*pe culture is

a much bigger issue.

And cancel culture wouldn't exist if

r*pe culture wasn't such a big issue.

I think at the end of

the day, PR will win in this situation.

Obviously, Hollywood

is built on money.

And, obviously, Armie comes from

a family that was built on money.

So, if Armie can find a way

to make somebody money,

then why couldn't

he possibly work?

I think that we all expect

that he's not going to get in trouble.

We all know there's no justice when it

comes to people with this much power.

I'm sure there are

people, probably a lot of people,

especially in this town,

who look at who I am

or, you know, sort of,

my family and all that

and say, "Well that's

why he got the part."

Generation to generation,

they have had a history of just doing

whatever they want and getting away with it

because of the power and

the money that they have.

And that's pretty intimidating.

Every generation,

every period of humanity

has always dealt

with the same sh*t.

And we will always

deal with the same sh*t,

we just wear different

clothes when we do it.

I'm really grateful

Armie and I didn't meet up.

By the time that

we got to January

and I had seen that he had

been doing this for years,

that's when I realized how

close to danger I really was.

A lot of the press was just all

about all of the roles he had lost

and that was very

frustrating to me.

My intention was to bring

back to the conversation

the abuses that this

person has inflicted.

I felt like art was the way

for me to speak to this issue.

So I decided to make art pieces

from my conversations with Armie.

Going back into these messages

was really something

I had avoided.

Um, but when I did, I did

it from a place of power.

The first two pieces that I

made painted a good picture

about the intersection between

wealth, predation and the abuse of power.

Here I posted this meme

which is about the

greatest wealth transfer

that we've seen in the

history of humankind.

It says, "Trying to enjoy the weekend

without fear of impending doom."

This was in August of 2020,

so this is still during the

height of the pandemic.

I said, "Eat the rich

for real nom nom nom."

And then Armie

reacted to my story.

Slid right in, "100 percent."

Which is ironic

because he comes from

one of the wealthiest

families on the plant.

He said, "Dibs on the glute

muscles and ribs for smoking."

In light of everything

that's come out since,

I don't find that funny.

And him mirroring

my frustrations,

is a way from him to

say that he's just like me.

It's a way to gain my trust.

And it's a way for me

to let my guard down.

I'm quite vocal on my Instagram

about my background of

having grown up in foster care.

I wouldn't be surprised if he

read those things and thought,

"Oh, okay, she's vulnerable."

We spoke about my

past history of abuse

and he, um, very openly

confided about, you know,

almost getting into a fistfight

with his father in the Islands.

And his father, like,

drinking and taking, like,

Vicodin at the same time.

He painted a pretty

chaotic picture.

But it wasn't coming from

a place of good intention.

It was coming from

a place to manipulate

and figure out what tools

that then he could use

to keep you under control

or use them against

you in the future.

When I came forward about

my experiences with him,

there was a lot of

online harassment.

If you're just, like, some

troll, like, in a dark room,

just, like, spewing hate

towards other people who are

actually doing sh*t

with their lives, like,

you know, I'm not going to

let someone like that get to me.

I went into this not

understanding the fandom

that was Call Me By Your Name.

But, the charmies are essentially

superfans of Armie Hammer.

The woman that

have come forward,

uh, they target

in a very big way.

Shame on them.

If any of them would

like to show their faces,

I would love to

know who you are.

One of the hardest times

of my life was that news coming out.

I started getting harassed

by his, like, die-hard fans.

I mean, they really

hit you where it hurts.

I mean, they have endless chat

rooms about, like, what to do to me.

They would text my

personal cell phone number.

They would send me

pictures of my high-rise

apartment building

that I lived in.

They would send

me death threats.

I moved out of my apartment.

I bought a house and

I put cameras all over.

The charmies made my life hell.

They want me to break so bad.

Fear is the weapon

that keeps victims

emotionally paralyzed.

It's very hard.

Because once the victim

enters that dangerous world

of the court of public opinion,

there is generally going

to be some backlash.

But, they didn't expect how

ugly it could be out there.

- Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- Can I give you a hug?

- Yes. Absolutely.

- How are you?

- I'm good. How are you?

I'm okay.

How are you handling everything?

Um, it comes in waves, you know.

I think I can say now that

I'm out of it, looking back.

- Mmm-hmm.

- I'm a lot stronger than I was.

And I've learned a lot

from what I experienced.

And I've learned a lot about

how to avoid people like that.

It's one of those things

where it just continues

until someone breaks the cycle.

And it's so important

for someone like you

who's very intelligent,

very successful,

to let people know it

can happen to anybody.

It's so common.

The way we grew up, it was

very secretive in a sense, right?

And now, for me,

with social media, like,

I can't even imagine when

I see someone like you,

up against this dynasty

that have gotten away

with this for so long.

Before the internet, it

was difficult for women

who were used and

abused to speak out.

They felt silenced. And,

in fact, they were silenced.

Now, with the

internet, many women

refuse to suffer in

silence and speak out

against those who have used,

abused and manipulated them.

I hope that speaking out

about the abuse I endured

at the hands of Armie Hammer

is that he will be

held accountable.

They want

their voices to be heard.

For many of them, they

want to warn other women.

They have the feeling

that they can't undo

the wrong that was done to them,

but maybe they can protect

someone else's daughter.

That's why they speak out.

While I say that

these charmies were being horrible,

I had thousands of

people message me.

Like, women that were like,

"I've had this exact

same thing happen."

I mean, everybody was relating.

It gives me chills because I

got the saddest, most real,

vulnerable messages

of everyone being like,

"I realize it's toxic.

I'm getting out."

I was willing to open

up about it to help people

avoid a situation like this.

There was a thousand

messages that were, like,

"Okay, well, something

good came out of this."

You want people to be able to

recognize these a*usive patterns.

I feel like, then it changes.

Like, you feel good doing it

because you're doing

it for the right reasons

and not because you're

bitter or you're sad.

Absolutely.

So much of what Courtney echoes

is what I still continue

to struggle with.

And mine was a long time ago.

I was sent a letter

recently by my brother.

And it says, "Dear Casey,

although we haven't

spoken in many years,

I heard the untrue

and hurtful things

you've recently

said about our family.

I can no longer remain quiet

and allow you

to feed your thirst

for notoriety at the

expense of our family

and the Armand

Hammer Foundation.

If you chose to

continue pretending

that the stories you have

invented are the truth,

I will have no choice

other than to pursue

every legal remedy to

set the record straight.

Despite all the pain your

fabrications have caused,

you share the blood

running through my veins.

You are still my family

and I wish you

nothing but the best.

Very truly yours, Michael."

My brother thinks

he can silence me.

The way my brother is

intimidating me right now

through that letter

and those words,

it's exactly what my

grandfather would do.

I've let the Hammers control me

so much my whole life.

It's time to stop.

I refuse to be silenced.