ONTD Original: A Look at Armie Hammer's Gross Family History, As Told By His Aunt
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Late this January, TikTok user thezenblonde started what turned into a 12-part series about the book, Surviving My Birthright, a 2015 memoir written by Armie Hammer's paternal aunt, Casey. In the book, Casey writes about growing up in the Hammer family, including awful abuse at the hands of her father and brother.
With Armie's sadistic grossness coming out these last few months, it's understandably started to get renewed attention.
Before we get deeper into all that, let's start with the basics:
Okay, so back to Casey.
Here's are some of details from the book, as retold by thezenblonde:
Casey Hammer is fairly active on IG and also started a TikTok after support came flooding in. She recently went on Heather Macdonald's podcast Juicy Scoop to talk about Armie and the family. She stated that she "wasn't surprised" that Armie is in this position and that they all grew up to be "perfect on the outside and twisted on the inside." She works at Home Depot now as a kitchen designer, seems to be have a normal life otherwise, and is working on a second book about her life titled Hammertime.
source: Wikipedia, Casey's IG, TikTok
Late this January, TikTok user thezenblonde started what turned into a 12-part series about the book, Surviving My Birthright, a 2015 memoir written by Armie Hammer's paternal aunt, Casey. In the book, Casey writes about growing up in the Hammer family, including awful abuse at the hands of her father and brother.
With Armie's sadistic grossness coming out these last few months, it's understandably started to get renewed attention.
Before we get deeper into all that, let's start with the basics:
- Armie's great-grandfather was Armand Hammer, an multi-hyphenate industrialist who was chairman/CEO of Occidental Petroleum from 1957 until his death in 1990 whose parents had immigrated from Russia to the US in 1875.
- Armand had tight relationships with leaders of the socialist/community party (like his homie up above) and later confirmed he was named after the Arm and Hammer symbol.
- Fun fact: Former VP Al Gore's lawyer father, Al Gore Sr., used to represent Occidental. Armand encouraged and sponsored Gore Jr. to get into politics and wanted to make him President. (Weird coincidence, but Armie's ex wife Elizabeth got her career start working at Al Gore's channel, Current TV)
- Did not invent Arm & Hammer baking soda, but ended up buying controlling shares of its parent company and eventually tried to buy the whole brand because the misperception kept going
- Armand had one child, Julian (Armie's grandfather). Julian would go on to father Michael (Armie's dad) and Casey (Armie's aunt and the author of the book)
- AFAICT, Casey had a good relationship with Armand at least.
Okay, so back to Casey.
Here's are some of details from the book, as retold by thezenblonde:
- Armie's grandfather (Casey's dad) Julian was a meth addict would beat his wife and give out guns like party favors
- Made Casey put a phonebook on her head and shot at her for target practice
- Casey remembers finding pictures of her dad watching a housekeeper performing sexual acts on a man [OP note: in the book, as a kid she tries to reason that if her dad was watching, then it couldn't be bad right? Heartbreaking.)
- This triggered memories of her father and brother Michael (Armie's dad) assaulting her multiple times; her dad even threatened to assault her half-sister if she told anyone
- Casey was once chased around the house by a methed out lady dressed as a ghost with a butcher knife
- Armand had worked with a lawyer and Casey to leave a portion family fortune to Casey before he died, but mysteriously that will went missing and Armie's dad ended up becoming the executor, leaving Casey with nothing
- Armie's dad might have been in cahoots with Armand's mistress to "fix" the will (who was the anesthesiologist of Armand's previous wife who had died soon after falling down a flight of stairs, wtf)
- Soon after Armand died, Armie's grandpa Julian started acting erratically and would point guns at people and yell about alien conspiracy theories, but could supposedly act lucid enough to get away with shit whenever the cops were called
- Casey ended up moving back home to take care of her dad, who eventually got arrested for meth and checked himself into a mental institution for a brief period to avoid charges
- When he left the institution, Julian was still acting erratic, accusing people of being alien spies, and even threatened to kill Casey's cats (don't worry they didn't get hurt!)
- When Julian died he left everything to his girlfriend, despite the fact that Casey had been caring for him this whole time; the gf refused to give Casey anything, not even her own baby photos
- Armie's dad may have also convinced Casey's ex-husband to take half of what little (comparatively) money she had in their divorce
Casey Hammer is fairly active on IG and also started a TikTok after support came flooding in. She recently went on Heather Macdonald's podcast Juicy Scoop to talk about Armie and the family. She stated that she "wasn't surprised" that Armie is in this position and that they all grew up to be "perfect on the outside and twisted on the inside." She works at Home Depot now as a kitchen designer, seems to be have a normal life otherwise, and is working on a second book about her life titled Hammertime.
source: Wikipedia, Casey's IG, TikTok