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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 fuck 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 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...

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.

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 abuser.

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, "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.

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 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.

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,

illegal 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 illegal 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! Explosion 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 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.

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.

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 kill 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 "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.

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 shit.

And we will always deal with the same shit,

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 shit 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 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.