{"id":442058,"date":"2022-05-05T03:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amber-heards-riveting-testimony-took-apart-the-johnny-deep-myth\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T03:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:35:47","slug":"amber-heards-riveting-testimony-took-apart-the-johnny-deep-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amber-heards-riveting-testimony-took-apart-the-johnny-deep-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amber Heard&#8217;s riveting testimony took apart the Johnny Deep myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af3088ab477d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af3088ab477d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amber-heards-riveting-testimony-took-apart-the-johnny-deep-myth\/#%E2%80%9CAmber_Heards_riveting_testimony_took_apart_the_Johnny_Deep_myth%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Amber Heard&#8217;s riveting testimony took apart the Johnny Deep myth&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAmber_Heards_riveting_testimony_took_apart_the_Johnny_Deep_myth%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Amber Heard&#8217;s riveting testimony took apart the Johnny Deep myth&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Maureen Callahan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After days of smirking, joking, and self-indulgent testimony, Johnny Depp is laughing no more.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, excuse me: There was that incredible moment he was caught smirking on camera as ex-wife Amber Heard recounted the moment Depp cornered her in a trailer \u2014 a trailer he\u2019d just smashed up \u2014 ripped off her dress, grabbed her breast, tore off her underwear and, as Heard testified, \u201cproceed[ed] to do a cavity search. He said he was looking for his drugs, his cocaine . . . [he] just shoved his fingers inside me . . . He twisted his fingers around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us recoiled. Johnny Depp smirked.<\/p>\n<p>That tells you everything you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you think Heard engaged in mind <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s and physical violence too \u2014 and I do \u2014 today\u2019s testimony was beyond damning.<\/p>\n<p>Heard was composed and cogent. She gave numerous, detailed examples of Depp\u2019s abuse, scenarios in which she placed eye- or ear-witnesses, making her testimony all the more credible: Why tell stories that could so easily be refuted?<\/p>\n<p>Heard testified that Depp\u2019s then-14-year-old daughter Lily Rose was so scared by her father\u2019s behavior she had a panic attack and fled her father\u2019s private island in a helicopter with Heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no \u2018off\u2019 button with Johnny,\u201d Heard said. Depp, ostensibly sober, had been drinking in front of her and his children, sneaking booze into his coffee cup.<\/p>\n<p>Surely I\u2019m not alone in suspecting Depp\u2019s ever-present silver mug, from which he gulped during Heard\u2019s testimony, contains something stronger than caffeine. His own testimony, in the most riveting celebrity court case since O.J., makes that a given.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-053.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Amber Heard\" class=\"wp-image-22145819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-053.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-053.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-053.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Amber Heard\u2019s emotional testimony, may be Johnny Depp\u2019s worse nightmare. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Reuters\/ Elizabeth Frantz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-052.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Amber Heard\" class=\"wp-image-22145818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-052.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-052.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-052.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Heard shared the abuse she faced in her relationship with Depp.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Reuters\/ Elizabeth Frantz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-048.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Johnny Depp\" class=\"wp-image-22145816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-048.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-048.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-048.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>No smiles or smirk from Johnny Depp in the courtroom. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/ Elizabeth Frantz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Who can forget Depp asking, \u201cIsn\u2019t h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y hour anytime?\u201d after admitting to using drugs with his good friend Marilyn Manson \u2014 you know, Manson, the guy with multiple accusations of sexual assault, who bragged to at least one other celebrity about having a \u201crape room\u201d in his house.<\/p>\n<p>Hey: You are the company you keep.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the Johnny of two weeks ago, the proper Southern gentleman who said his abusive childhood made him the kind of parent who knew how to do just about everything right?<\/p>\n<p>If that guy ever existed, he is long gone.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Heard testified that on July 9, 2013, Depp, angry that he was in debt and forced to sell his yacht to J.K. Rowling \u2014 folks, despite his on-stand demeanor, don\u2019t be duped that Depp\u2019s just one of us \u2014 got inebriated and, taking a messy dive off the boat, scared his children. His then-14-year-old daughter Lily-Rose, Heard said, started to cry.<\/p>\n<p>Back on board, Depp, in Heard\u2019s testimony, told his daughter to leave, then \u201cslams me up against the wall of the cabin . . . slams me up by my neck. Holds me there for a second and tells me he could f\u2014king kill me. [That] I was an embarrassment . . . I made him feel sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heard said she was more upset that Depp was embarrassed by her \u2014 \u201cI was very much in love with this whole family now\u201d \u2014 than by his threat to kill her. That, Heard said, she rationalized as hyperbole.<\/p>\n<p>She sounded very much like an abused woman: Not wanting to leave Depp despite the abuse, but \u201cwanting to want to leave.\u201d She talked about Depp love-bombing her in the beginning, buying her expensive rare books, guitars, a horse, telling her she saved his life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-050.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Amber Heard\" class=\"wp-image-22145817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-050.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-050.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-050.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Heard and Depp both played a part in their abuse and toxic relationship.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Reuters\/ Elizabeth Frantz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Within weeks he made it clear he wanted to marry her. One of the most famous men in the world, as she noted. Super-heady stuff for a young starlet.<\/p>\n<p>Depp would spend days with Heard holed up in her house, she said, drinking wine, smoking cigarettes, listening to music \u2014 and then disappear for weeks, no word, no way for Heard to reach him.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d inevitably come back, claim he was \u201cclean and sober,\u201d in her words, \u201cand he would go back to this wonderful . . . unbelievably nice, sensitive, kind, warm, generous, interesting, funny man that I loved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first time Depp hit her, Heard said, \u201cI will never forget . . . it changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They were sitting on a couch, she said, \u201ca jar of cocaine sitting on the table \u2014 an actual vintage jar\u201d \u2014 that is such a Depp-specific detail, all that Hot Topic faux-goth crap he still thinks is cool \u2014 when she asked him about one of his tattoos, the \u201cWinona Forever\u201d he\u2019d modified to \u201cWino Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-046.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Amber Heard\" class=\"wp-image-22145814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-046.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-046.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/callahan-heard-depp-046.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>She held her composure as she testified, providing a thorough review of the events. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/ Elizabeth Frantz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Heard thought the tattoo was a joke. She had no frame of reference \u2014 she was in her mid-20s then, half Depp\u2019s age. She had no idea about the iconic Gen X romance that was Johnny Depp, 26, and Winona Ryder, 17 and then, by her own account, a virgin.<\/p>\n<p>Think that age gap would ever fly today?<\/p>\n<p>Also: Think Johnny Depp can laugh at himself? Think again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe slapped me across the face,\u201d Heard said.<\/p>\n<p>What she describes next, again, is classic victim thinking: Heard says she knew she should walk out of the room but couldn\u2019t. She didn\u2019t cry.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she said, she laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI laughed because I didn\u2019t know what else to do. I thought, \u2018This must be a joke,\u2019 . . . [I was] thinking that he was going to start laughing too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Depp said, \u201cYou think that\u2019s funny, bitch?\u201dHe slapped her again, Heard testified, so hard she lost her balance.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Of course, he im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely got down on his knees, begged her forgiveness and promised it would never happen again.<\/p>\n<p>Textbook.<\/p>\n<p>Depp threatened to break the wrists of at least two women, Heard said, with witnesses to both incidents. Depp\u2019s bodyguard saw Heard after Depp smacked her in a hotel room, her nose bleeding. She talked about Cocaine Johnny being different from Quaalude Johnny being different from Adderall Johnny.<\/p>\n<p>Heard talked about Depp, high, holding a small dog out of the window of a moving car. Multiple witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>She testified that Depp would get so drunk or high that he\u2019d pass out in his own vomit or lose control of his bowels. She said his security team would clean up after him, or Heard herself.<\/p>\n<p>Heard has moved on with her life, but Depp keeps dragging her into courtrooms, forcing contact, attempting to kill her career, his demented fans (and rumored bots) clogging up online forums and email inboxes, mine included, with ungrammatical missives of misogyny and hate.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all another form of violence. It was notable that Depp, through the bulk of Heard\u2019s testimony, couldn\u2019t look at her \u2014 instead looking down, no more gummy bears and winks to the jury, his forehead lined with worry.<\/p>\n<p>As well it should be. 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