Speaking to GQ in a new interview, the actor makes it no secret that his lockdown experience with his father, his father’s new wife, his own wife Elizabeth Chambers and their two children took a huge toll on his mental health.
That’s because the family was restricted to staying inside their home, and couldn’t even go out to the pool, the beach, or even a store or a gas station. Things got so bad that Armie and Elizabeth announced their separation in June.
Armie Hammer Describes His Experience With ‘Draconian Lockdown’ In The Cayman Islands
He told the publication, “We got stuck down there during quarantine. My dad lives out there with his new wife….The experience sucked so badly. The island itself handled the situation really efficiently, but they also handled it in a really intense way. It was a very draconian lockdown. They wouldn’t fly anywhere, or at least not to America. Everything was closed. I mean, everything – the gas stations, the grocery stores… Everyone just locked themselves in their house. If you’re out and they see you, you go to jail for a year. I am not kidding. One guy violated curfew by five minutes and they put them in jail for four months. They were not f–king around. I was in an apartment with my dad, his new wife, Elizabeth and our two kids. We’d be looking out at the ocean, but couldn’t go in the ocean; looking at the beach, but couldn’t go on the beach. We couldn’t leave the apartment, couldn’t go in the pool, couldn’t do anything. So it was a really concentrated family time, which is really great with the kids, but it was intense.”
Armie says that he clearly didn’t handle the lockdown very well and that eventually, he sought therapy. He said, “I don’t think I handled it very well. I think, to be quite frank, I came very close to completely losing my mind. I just felt completely powerless. And I was on an island where the lockdown was so severe that mail couldn’t even come in. I’ve been in therapy before, but this was a dire situation. And now I just think everyone needs to be in therapy, period, across the board. Everyone needs to be talking to someone and if you’re not, you’re doing something wrong.”
While things were certainly tough in the Cayman Islands, Armie says that the situation back home in the United States isn’t any better. In fact he says that America has turned into a “raging dumpster fire.” Armie elaborated with, “I don’t know how this happened, but at the same time I know we get what we deserve and we elect the president we deserve. So we got Trump; it wasn’t an accident… People here just aren’t paying attention to what needs to be done. In America, people don’t believe what they’re told and people don’t believe other people should be telling them what to do, because that somehow infringes on their freedom.”
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