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[eerie music playing]

[Casey Hammer]
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.
-[cellphone pinging]

And it was a friend.

She said...

[reading]

[music swelling]

[opening theme music playing]

[Courtney Vucekovich]
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.

[echoing footsteps]

And I can't get the fuck out.

[door closes]

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.

[clears throat]

[reading]

[exhales] "I surrendered
to him 100 percent,

gave him anything good
I had left.

What in the fuck
is wrong with you?

He used me in every way
humanly possible for months
and I fucking let him.

I feel absolutely
numb and small
and disgusting and ugly."

While I was in rehab...

[cellphone pings]

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 fucking 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.

[paparazzi] 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.

-[app clicks]
-[Vucekovich] 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.

[Vucekovich]
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 abuser.

[Vucekovich]
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.

[coworker] 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.

[coworker] 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, "Faggot."

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.

[coworker] It just snowballed.

[car revving]

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.

[coworker] 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.

[coworker] 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.

[coworker] 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 shit.

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.

[Casey] 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.

[Lauren Skae] 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.

[Casey] Dru's father says
that before Armand died,

he said, "I accept Christ."

And all these people's jaws
just fell open.

[Skae] 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."

[reading]

There is a hook,
like a meat hook.

And I...

Almost don't even want to
imagine what somebody
would do with this.

[reading]

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. [chuckles]

Like father, like son.

It's such a facade.

[Vucekovich] I think
we're all seeing the pattern.

It's just generation
to generation.

[indistinct conversation]

We all know
Armie's public persona.

I think his team
and his family kind of
curates this image

around him?

[Edward Epstein]
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,

illegal cash bribes.

He would deliver the money.

[indistinct conversation]

And Julian would record
the entire crime
being committed

so he could later blackmail
the person.

[Armand] Yeah.

[Epstein] Very little
shocks me, I should say,

but the tapes he gave me
shocked me.

[man]

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.

[Neil Lyndon] In the movie
All the President's Men,

which was about
the Watergate Scandal,

Deep Throat says,
"Follow the money."

[chuckles] If they did,
they would have found
that it led to Armand Hammer.

Hammer routinely made
illegal campaign contributions
to politicians.

I saw it firsthand

that the political
establishment is buyable
from top to bottom.

[Epstein] 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.

[Lyndon] Having an outstanding
conviction was bad
for business.

And he saw creating
a relationship
with Prince Charles...

Well, I am indebted
to Dr. Hammer.

[Lyndon] ...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?

[crowd applauding]

-[crowd cheering]
-[band music playing]

I will faithfully execute
the office of President
of the United States.

[Lyndon] George Bush Sr.
did give him a pardon
for the Watergate Scandal.

[reporter] 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.

[Lyndon] 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.

[explosion]

[Lyndon] Piper Alpha
was a platform

owned by Occidental
in the North Sea.

It was the cornerstone
of Occidental's wealth.

[man on radio]
Mayday! Explosion and fire
on the Piper Alpha.

[Lyndon] In July 1988,
there was an accident
on Piper Alpha

that was the worst accident
on an off-shore platform
in the world ever.

[reporter 2] 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."

[crowd murmuring]

[Lyndon] 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.

[Lyndon] 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
killed 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.

[crowd murmuring]

[Lyndon] 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 gun 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.

[Casey] I tried to
move forward and make
a name for myself.

-[Gloria Allred]
Welcome to my home.
-[door closes]

[Casey] 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."

[producer 2] You can scream,
Case. Whatever you want.

[director] Action.

Someone came up
from behind me...

-[Casey screams]
-[man] Get out of the car!

[Casey whimpers]

Something visceral was
happening in my body

and I was so afraid
that he was going to
kill me or hurt me.

[both struggling]

Something took over
inside of me

and I hurt him.

-[both crying out]
-[man exclaims] God dammit.

[Casey] 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 fucked 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 shooting
at the walls.

[gunshots]

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
shoot at me."

So, the phone book was held up
to the right of my head.

[gun clicks]

[gunshot]

I drop the phone book.

I remember taking cover.

[gunshots]

[indistinct laughter]

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.

[producer]

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, [sighs]
it's still so hard.

Because you want to
share your back story.

You want to explain
why you're fucked 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.

[Vucekovich] 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.

[industrial music playing]

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.

[reporter 1]
Armie Hammer's ex-girlfriend,
Courtney Vucekovich...

[reporter 2] Armie
Hammer's public accounts
are going viral.

[reporter 3] Courtney
Vucekovich has come forward

with claims against her ex,
Armie Hammer.

[Vucekovich]
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 shit.
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 rape,
is looking like that is not
going to result in charges.

[Morrison] 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."

[Bacardi] 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 "rape culture."

And rape culture
is a much bigger issue.

And cancel culture wouldn't
exist if rape culture
wasn't such a big issue.

[Ryan Bailey] 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?

[Bacardi] 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.

[Armie] 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."

[Candice Cronkhite]
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 shit.

And we will always
deal with the same shit,

we just wear different clothes
when we do it.

[Morrison] 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 shit
with their lives, like,

you know, I'm not going to let
someone like that get to me.

[Skae] 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.

[Vucekovich] 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.

-[Vucekovich]
Nice to meet you.
-[Casey] Nice to meet you.

-[Vucekovich] Can I
give you a hug?
-Yes. Absolutely.

-[Vucekovich] How are you?
-I'm good. How are you?

[Vucekovich] 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.

-[Casey] 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.

[Allred] 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.

[Vucekovich] 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 abusive 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.