Armie Hammer’s ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers is set to host her own series on ‘toxic and traumatic’ relationships, following her explosive split from the embarrassed actor.
The 40-year-old television personality filed for divorce from Hammer, 36, in July 2020 after ten years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences, months before Hammer was accused by multiple women of sexual assault and of having violent fantasies involving cannibalism.
Chambers has now signed a development deal with Investigation Discovery, with its first true crime show ‘exploring the complexities of toxic and traumatic relationships’.
Chambers will host and co-executive produce the series that features “interviews and first-hand accounts from survivors that shed light on long-held secrets, generational trauma, and deep-seated psychological issues,” the network reports.
The series also ‘aims to empower victims with control of their own narratives.
Happier times: Armie Hammer’s ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers is set to host her own series on ‘toxic and traumatic’ relationships, following her own explosive split from the embarrassed actor (pictured in 2020)
Jason Sarlanis, President of Turner Networks, ID & HLN, Linear and Streaming, said, “We’re huge fans of Elizabeth and know this new series will resonate with our passionate true crime audience.”
‘Elizabeth brings a unique empathy to help elevate the voices of victims, which aligns perfectly with ID’s mission to use its platform to share powerful stories of hope, resilience and survival.
The Discovery+ documentary House of Hammer, which documented allegations of abuse against Hammer and his reported cannibalism fetish, aired last year, of which Chambers was not a part.
This Coming Chambers spoke of the moment she found out her marriage to Hammer was over, revealing that he left her heart “broken into nine million pieces.”
Discussing the breakdown of his marriage in a candid conversation with ELLE magazine, Elizabeth revealed that the cracks had been showing for months, and the actor’s behavior during lockdown turned out to be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The couple were on vacation with their children Harper, seven, and Ford, five, when Covid cases began to rise in the United States, so they decided not to return to Los Angeles, but to quarantine in the Cayman Islands. with Armie’s father and stepmother.
However, their already strained marriage began to unravel even faster, with Elizabeth describing Armie as “the worst” during quarantine.
For his part, Armie has described the moment as a “very complicated and intense situation, with big personalities locked up in a small place”, comparing himself to a wolf “caught in a trap” who wants to “bite his own foot”. off.’
New venture: Chambers has now signed a development deal with Investigation Discovery, with his first true crime show ‘exploring the complexities of toxic and traumatic relationships (pictured 2020)
Despite her struggles, Elizabeth was shocked when her husband decided to leave the family and return to California, where he helped a friend restore an old motel on the outskirts of Joshua Tree National Park.
“My heart was broken into nine million pieces, and I still took it to the airport,” he confessed.
She added: ‘Marriage is always going to be difficult and like any relationship, you go through a process. Especially if you add success and fame to the mix; It just gets bigger…
‘[Over time] your partner is learning things about themselves,” she says. ‘They are growing, you are growing; you hope you are growing together.’
Ultimately, they had grown too far apart for their relationship to work.
As she tried to rebuild herself, Elizabeth sought solace from the marriage counselor she had seen with Armie, the famous psychotherapist and relationship specialist Esther Perel.
‘[Esther] I always said that heartbreak is literally worse than heroin addiction, and I think about it a lot,’ he confessed.
Elizabeth is now dating 26-year-old wellness specialist Ricardas Kazinec.
While the couple are ‘so in love’, Elizabeth revealed that they have to act ‘completely platonic if the kids ever see us together, because I don’t think they’d be interested in seeing their mum dating someone while they’re still going through a divorce.’
While it’s been three years since she filed for divorce, the couple is still not legally divorced, and Elizabeth admits she felt like she was “ripping apart” her family.
She explained: ‘The dissolution of my family was literally my biggest fear of my entire life. You are building something, right? You are weaving a beautiful tapestry and the last thing you want is for a knife to come along and rip the tapestry in half.
Elizabeth’s grief was only magnified when a series of depraved revelations about Armie’s sex life were made public, including that he had cannibalistic fetishes.
“I was learning things like the public,” Elizabeth revealed. ‘I was like, ‘There are no words. What the hell?
Armie has since broken his silence to insist that while he was a “jerk” and a “million percent” of emotionally abused young women, he is not a criminal.
He also claimed that he was molested by a pastor at the age of 13 and attempted suicide in the Cayman Islands after being accused of rape.
The embarrassed star of The Social Network has not been heard from and rarely seen since a woman named Effie, 26, accused him in 2021 of ‘violently raping’ her. This led to a series of accusations from the women related to her interest in perverted sex and even cannibalism.
He denied the allegations through his lawyer, saying that all of their sexual encounters were “fully consensual, discussed and agreed to beforehand and mutually participatory.”
The Los Angeles Police Department has investigated and Armie has never been charged, but the allegations turned out to be catastrophic for his career and he was subsequently dropped by the talent agency WME, as well as his personal publicist.
Shocking: Elizabeth’s grief was magnified when a series of depraved revelations about Armie’s sex life were made public, including that he had cannibalistic fetishes (pictured in 2018)
He was replaced in Jennifer Lopez’s new romantic comedy Shotgun Wedding by Josh Duhamel, and Miles Teller took over his role in the television series The Offer, which dramatizes the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic The Godfather.
Although he was removed from those productions, Armie had already finished filming the mystery Death On The Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh, which features a cast that includes Branagh, Gal Gadot, Annette Benning, Russell Brand and Rose Leslie, among others.
A trailer for the film was mocked by viewers after he seemed to do his best to minimize the actor’s involvement, though his brief appearances proved too much for many viewers.
Armie was also sued by American Express over a $67,000 unpaid credit card bill, but the case was dismissed earlier this month.