Casey Hammer—sister of Armie’s dad, Michael Armand Hammer, and creator of the 2015 memoir Surviving My Birthright—mentioned on episode two, “Sins of the Father,” that she “wasn’t shocked” when the allegations towards her nephew surfaced. “This conduct, it is deep-rooted.”
Casey mentioned that she witnessed her father, Julian Armand Hammer, bodily abusing and in any other case terrorizing her mom, Glenna Sue. (Julian died in 1996 and Glenna Sue handed in 2010.) When her mother would try to go away, Casey mentioned, household patriarch Armand Hammer (Julian’s father and Armie’s great-grandfather, who died in 1990) would intimidate her into staying. Armand had “horrifying, scary vitality,” his granddaughter mentioned.
The oil tycoon stored information on all of the relations, Casey mentioned, describing their lives as being “like a chessboard and my grandfather preferred to regulate all of the strikes.”
As soon as her mother and father cut up up, Casey mentioned, Glenna Sue bought $200 in help from Julian. Casey mentioned her dad at all times had medication and younger ladies round him at his home, that girls “have been disposable within the Hammer household.”
Casey alleged in her e-book that her father additionally bodily and sexually abused her and reiterated the accusation within the present, crediting remedy within the Nineties with serving to her get better repressed reminiscences. She hoped her mom would inform her she was loopy, Casey recalled, “however it seems she did learn about it and what I used to be remembering was really taking place.”
Regretting that she by no means confronted her dad in his lifetime, Casey mentioned, “The technology I grew up in, it was closed-door. However it’s a distinct time.” She mentioned she hoped Courtney “finds peace.”
