Armie Hammer apologizes after his Instagram post creates chaos for Miss Cayman

Armie Hammer might want to steer clear of social media for the foreseeable future. While the Call Me By Your Name star is sticking to his story that recently released DMs in which he’s alleged to have written some graphic messages about sex, BDSM, and cannibalism are fakes, he is owning up to a post on his private Instagram account that landed Miss Cayman Islands in hot water.

After the Daily Mail unearthed Hammer’s private el_destructo_86 Instagram account, a screencap from a video of a lingerie-wearing woman on all fours on a hotel bed began to circulate (the post was even geotagged to the Grand Cayman Ritz Carlton). The woman’s face isn’t visible but Hammer calls her “Ms. Cayman” in the caption. Which was what led to his most recent round of trouble.

When the official Miss Cayman Islands committee and the current reigning Miss Cayman saw the photo, Hammer was reported to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. “The Committee is very disturbed by the video and would like to confirm that the woman is not the reigning Miss Cayman Islands and has no affiliation to the Miss Cayman Islands Universe pageant,” read the organization’s own Instagram missive. “The depiction of the woman in the video goes against all that our organization stands for and the committee is consequently requesting that Mr. Hammer immediately remove all reference to Miss Cayman from his social media channels.”

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The industry is notoriously uptight about its competitors’ conduct both in and outside the pageant world, stripping titles from winners found to have posed nude or engaged in activities that judges and organizers deem inappropriate (usually having to do with expressions of sexuality).

Hammer has since apologized for any trouble he may have caused the real Miss Cayman. “I would like to clarify that the person in my video, which was stolen from my private Instagram, is not Miss Cayman,” he told the Cayman Compass. “I am genuinely sorry for any confusion my foolish attempt at humour may have caused. My deep sympathies to Miss Cayman, who I don’t know, and to the entire organization as I had no intentions of implying she was actually Miss Cayman,” he added.

More serious than the Cayman Islands incident are the allegations that Hammer has a track record of abusing the women he’s dated since his recent split from wife Elizabeth Chambers. Setting aside the sensationalist headlines about cannibalism and severed toes, it’s alleged by ex Courtney Vucekovich that Hammer “quickly grooms you in the relationship. He kind of captivates you and while being charming, he’s grooming you for these things that are darker and heavier and consuming,” Vucekovish told Page Six. “When I say consuming, I mean mentally, physically, emotionally, financially, just everything.”

"He did some things with me that I wasn’t comfortable with,” she added. “For God knows what reason, he convinced me that these things were OK and he put me in some dangerous situations where I was not OK, where he was heavily drinking, and I wasn’t drinking that way. You end up doing things that are very out-of-character for you, including sex acts.” When the relationship ended, Vucekovich enrolled herself in a 30-day trauma recovery program.

Another ex, writer Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, addressed the original anonymous leaked DMs saying, “If you are still questioning whether or not those Armie Hammer DMs are real (and they are) maybe you should start questioning why we live in a culture willing to give abusers the benefit of the doubt instead of victims.” 

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