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Amber Heard & Johnny Depp....Your thoughts?

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Whatdoyouthinkaboutthisone · 08/07/2020 18:53

I have seen this in the news over the past couple of days and wasn't really sure what to think. It sounds to me like a very volatile relationship and it may be that they are both abusers. Or at the least they are completely incompatible with each other.

Today I noticed that Amber Heard was walking into court and she had a scarf around her face. Then she removed the scarf and smiled for everyone and waved and seemed to enjoy the cameras being there. It's just an observation but maybe the accusations of her being a narcissist could be accurate? Or is she maybe trying to put a brave face on it all under what must be a very stressful situation for all concerned?

Johnny Depp kept his mask on but was also waving for the cameras I should add.

Anyway, I'm well aware it's none of my business really, it was just something I had thought about after seeing the news today and wondered what others thought!

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Russellbrandshair · 09/07/2020 10:22

I think they have both shown themselves to be damaging, toxic and utterly horrible people. They deserve each other if only because then they’ll save someone else having to put up with their abusive vile behaviour. They are both revolting.

Windyjuly · 09/07/2020 10:28

Morgan freeman has had allegations of abuse levelled agaisnt him, not sure what came of it.

Who is a contemporary of jd?

SinisterBumFacedCat · 09/07/2020 10:59

@fairydustandpixies

I'm on team JD
Put it a slogan t shirt. I personally would not be rushing to get onto the team of some old misogynistic loser who said he wanted to rape AH burnt corpse to check she was dead.

Those students at Warwick were rightly and eventually chucked out of university for similar WhatsApp messages about fellow pupils. Two middle aged movie stars text it and it’s just lads bantz by two “legends”. How many abusive men have we seen through the years, how many on this site? And have any of them inspired the same reaction, are women texting each other that they should rape and burn their abusive exes? It’s a product of a culture of pervasive misogyny.

anon444877 · 09/07/2020 11:02

that vile text exchange is likely to have made Bettany box office poison too, and rightfully so. Bettany could have ignored it. I hope his DW (I’ve admired her for year) gives him hell over his part.

AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter · 09/07/2020 11:08

I personally would not be rushing to get onto the team of some old misogynistic loser who said he wanted to rape AH burnt corpse to check she was dead

I agree. Both him and Paul Bettany are trash. I looked on Bettany's twitter and see he's doing lots of virtue signalling- what a fcking hypocrite after joking about JD having sex with amber's dead corpse after burning her or drowning her. Both of them are misogynistic pricks.

Dashel · 09/07/2020 11:15

It’s just one big mess.

I think both of them should never be within 10 miles of each other ever again and I pity anyone who gets into a relationship with either of them. They both need professional help instead of point scoring who the winner in this relationship. The money on legal representation would be much better spent on therapy.

Russellbrandshair · 09/07/2020 11:21

pity anyone who gets into a relationship with either of them

Totally agree. There will be no “winner” here. They are both showing their true colours now and both of them are coming out smelling of garbage.

72 hour benders, blackouts, fist fights, destroying property, and joking about rape. Without serious therapy neither of them will ever be able to have a functional relationship with anyone. They will both remain miserable fck ups.

mencken · 09/07/2020 11:40

Sounds like they deserve each other. I know the trial is in the UK because it involves the Sun, but shame we have to put up with these mucky types, we've got enough of our own.

and did they do the quarantine on arrival or does being serial drug users get you out of that too?

dayswithaY · 09/07/2020 12:59

The whole thing is an utter shit show and no one comes out of this looking good. It's just another example of how the pandemic has rendered celebrities pointless, spoilt and silly. There is real stuff going on and this vile pair are squabbling about who shat the bed and who slammed a cupboard door. They should both go home and do some charity work - in private.

coffeetime11 · 09/07/2020 13:52

I'll wait for the outcome. Hopefully the truth will win in the end, much as a large legal bill for The Sun would make me smile.

annabel85 · 09/07/2020 13:53

@SweetPetrichor

He was vulnerable, she was abusive. If you flipped the genders there'd be no question.

It's incredibly sad and highlights how little care there is for male victims of abuse. It was immediately assumed he was in the wrong, his name was dragged through the mud...there's not enough care for male victims at all. All you have to do is look at all the things like 'womens aid' etc...there's very little out there for a man suffering abuse to seek help. It's depressing.

"Nobody will believe you" she said to him.
narrowboatgirl · 09/07/2020 13:59

He wasn’t vulnerable. If he was vulnerable and the victim why did he continue to harass her (via sending goons to her house, and refusing to give her the financial settlement he’d agreed to) after the divorce? He wouldn’t leave her alone, which is typical abuser behaviour.

They’re both as bad as each other.

Iwalkinmyclothing · 09/07/2020 14:04

They both sound pretty vile, tbh. I'm aware I only know what is in the media and that I haven't paid much attention to it, but what I have seen makes me think they're equally horrible people to be in a relationship with.

I have been thoroughly unimpressed with people on both 'sides' throughout.

anon444877 · 09/07/2020 14:52

The whole thing is starting to sound like a sleezy 70s novel without any feel good factor - did you see today’s reporting about Depp’s private dr (‘kipper’) supposedly gave Amber Heard a burgundy negligee? WTF?

Branleuse · 09/07/2020 15:03

noone wants to believed that beloved Johnny depp would do such a thing, but this is the whole problem isnt it.

its always "i believe her" until its a bloke people actually like

Windyjuly · 09/07/2020 15:26

Anon, utterly bizzare, yes!!

Totickleamockingbird · 09/07/2020 15:31

@Windyjuly

Morgan freeman has had allegations of abuse levelled agaisnt him, not sure what came of it.

Who is a contemporary of jd?

Has he? Sad
MrsWhites · 09/07/2020 15:34

@Branleuse I don’t believe she was abused to the degree she claims, I think they had an incredibly volatile relationship but that she is just as guilt of any abuse as he is. But this is nothing to do with the fact that I think he’s a good actor, it’s because I’ve heard the tapes and there is no denying, in them she sounds like the abuser!

narrowboatgirl · 09/07/2020 15:47

Morgan Freeman was accused of sexual harassment by eight different women, and allegedly had an affair with his first ex-wife’s granddaughter, who he and his second ex-wife adopted (the details came out after the girl was sadly murdered, and texts and things from the girl were read out in court).

AnneOfQueenSables · 09/07/2020 15:54

Both of them are misogynistic pricks
Yy and most of us already thought it about JD but Paul Bettany must be kicking himself that he let the mask slip.

narrowboatgirl · 09/07/2020 16:19

The part about holding the dog out the car window is awful.

Reading all the court testimony the allegation that she caused his finger injury seems implausible.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 09/07/2020 18:18

The constant suspicion of her male co stars and banning her from doing nude scenes is text book abusive.

anon444877 · 09/07/2020 18:20

OTOH, his private doctor presented her with a negligee so perhaps Depp wasn’t totally paranoid! Who knows

Windyjuly · 09/07/2020 18:33

A negligee she wore. Maybe she had forgotten to bring one 🤔?

Utterly sordid and bizzare.

I'm wondering how on this earth can one body sustain all that abuse! Multiple addictions to alcohol, Coke, roxxies... This and that??.
How?

The whisky! Hard, hard liquor.... Pints of it.... Endless bottles of wine.... Coke and whisky at midday, bags of mdma... How can one liver sustain all that??

Frownette · 09/07/2020 18:39

Don't know what to make of it. Best leave it to the courts.

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