
"Behind closed doors, it was a free-for-all. Back then, you didn't have social media so you just thought this was the way normal rich, famous, wealthy people acted in Los Angeles," she said. Growing up with her powerful grandfather could also be volatile and terrifying.

People focus on the physical and sexual abuse, but mental abuse can go a lot farther in terms of the brainwashing and the controlling." "I chose to put myself in that situation for weeks as an adult. 357 Magnum to my temple every hour and make me open my eyes to see if I was possessed by aliens, and if I was, he was going to shoot me," she said. Hammer's aunt also described her dad's drug-fueled bouts of paranoia and how he inflicted them on her. But to me, it was a normal thing that happened in my family," Casey told The Daily Beast. "As a little girl, holding a phone book and being shot at, most people are horrified by that. She described in her memoir how her father allegedly abused her sexually and loved taunting people with guns. In House of Hammer, Casey will tell how she grew up seeing underage girls in the family home used as mistresses, drug abuse and extreme violence, which she alleges was usually at the hands of her father, Julian. "It just didn't start there-it goes way back."

"As shocking as what he's doing right now, there's a generational pattern that's been in play for a very long time and that no one took notice of," Casey said. The three-part docuseries contains interviews with some of Hammer's alleged victims, and the trailer features voice notes allegedly from Hammer himself. She continued, "Once started unfolding, I was like, Here we go, another Hammer man and something that's being said about them." "You don't wake up one day and become a monster-it's learned behavior." "Based on my experiences in my family, I suffered from abuse. "I wasn't shocked when the allegations came forward," Casey told The Daily Beast this week. She said she was not surprised when the allegations about Hammer came to light. She also described her harrowing upbringing in her 2015 autobiography, Surviving My Birthright. Casey is the daughter of his only son, Julian, and sister to Armie Hammer's dad, Michael.Ĭasey has spoken out ahead of the documentary's release, detailing the family's history of alleged violence. Hammer is a descendant of Armand Hammer, his great-grandfather, who was an oil tycoon.

Hammer and his legal team have consistently denied all the allegations in the series. The docuseries will include exclusive revelations from his aunt, Casey Hammer, and multiple survivors of his alleged abuse. His aunt has gone public about the family's history of violence ahead of a new documentary. Armie Hammer at the MDL Beast music festival on December 19, 2019, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
