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Johnny Depp & Amber Heard May Both be Telling the Truth

I don’t know what really happened with Amber Heard and Johnny Depp during their relationship — and neither do you.

Juliet James
5 min readMay 11, 2022

Content warning for discussions of emotional, sexual and physical violence.

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Update: I am editing this to link to an absolutely excellent piece written by @deeni that is, in my opinion, a masterful takedown, of Johnny Depp’s bullshit arguments against Amber Heard. He might believe his own lies, but I sure as fuck don’t.

Johnny Depp has, to say the least, a colorful history, and not one without violent behavior (see the case of the trashed NYC hotel room he stayed in with Kate Moss, which he blamed on an angry armadillo). That said, the idea that he’d be capable of this doesn’t come into play for me because I believe the most seemingly innocent, goodhearted person can be capable of heinous things behind closed doors (especially when under the influence).Regardless, it has been REALLY bothering me how quick people (especially other women) are to call Heard a liar or a bad actress or to use the “her story keeps changing” as a defense against believing her.

It’s not bothering me because it’s IMPOSSIBLE that she’s lying and ‘overacting.” or that she may have a mental illness (as was suggested…

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Juliet James
Juliet James

Written by Juliet James

"The past is only useful if you are taking those lessons forward, not using them to make yourself feel worse.” -Iris Beaglehole

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