At this point if you’re still falling for Depp’s smear campaign I have no interest in wasting my time swaying you to the truth but do me a favor and shut up with these moronic talking points:
Amber Heard was found guilty of abuse!
It was a civil trial. No one is found guilty in civil trials, that’s not how they work. She was found liable for defamation, not abuse. And Depp was found liable for defamation in her countersuit. So if you want to claim the trial found Heard guilty, then by your own logic, it found Depp guilty as well.
She has a history of abuse!
Depp supporters allege that Heard was arrested for assaulting her former partner, Tasya van Ree. In van Ree’s own words:
“In 2009, Amber was wrongfully accused for an incident that was misinterpreted and over-sensationalized by two individuals in a power position. I recount hints of misogynistic attitudes toward us which later appeared to be homophobic when they found out we were domestic partners and not just ‘friends.’ Charges were quickly dropped and she was released moments later. It’s disheartening that Amber’s integrity and story are being questioned yet again. Amber is a brilliant, honest and beautiful woman and I have the utmost respect for her. We shared 5 wonderful years together and remain close to this day.”
No, he was found liable of defamation. Specifically, he was found to have defamed Heard through his lawyer’s statements that Heard and her friends orchestrated an abuse hoax. As in, it was defamation to say she wasn’t abused. That is the exact opposite of being found innocent of abusing her.
Amber Heard ruined Depp’s career!
He ruined his own career. Look at all his failed films that premiered well before his abuse of Amber Heard came to light: Transcendence, The Lone Ranger, Dark Shadows, Mortdecai, Alice Through the Looking Glass. Here’s a Forbes article from 2014 about his string of bombed films.
Depp got dropped from Pirates of the Caribbean for being an unprofessional sack of shit who was constantly hours late to set, had to be fed lines through an earpiece, and cost Disney millions after he injured himself on a bender.
Here’s a Disney executive testifying that Amber Heard’s op-ed in the Washington Post had nothing to do with Depp’s removal from the Pirates franchise.
Depp didn’t lose his role in Fantastic Beasts until he lost the libel suit that he brought against The Sun. Turns out when you bring a case to court claiming you’re not a wife beater, and the judge says you are, film studios will ask you to go away. Even then, Depp was paid in full for the third Fantastic Beasts film due to his contract.
Here’s Depp drunk or high off his ass while presenting an award. His former agent testified that after seeing this, studio executives were calling her asking what the hell was wrong with her client.
Here he is falling down drunk outside a nightclub. This is the shit that ruined his career. Heard wanted him to get sober.
She cut off Depp’s finger!
He cut off his own finger while drugged out of his mind.
Here are two texts he sent to his doctor confirming this.
Here he is on audio saying “the day that I chopped my finger off.”
Unsealed court documents show that Depp “does not allege a specific cause of action for intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress; does not assert that Ms. Heard’s actions caused him a specific psychiatric injury; and does not claim that Ms. Heard’s actions caused him to experience unusually severe emotional distress.” The documents further state that there was no “specific physical or mental injury” suffered by Depp from Heard.
In other words, his own court filings say he wasn’t abused by her.
She’s on tape admitting to abusing him!
The recording of Heard telling Depp no one would believe him if he said she abused him? “You can please tell people that it was a fair fight, and see what the jury and judge thinks”? The context of that clip is Heard telling Depp she feared for her life during one of his abusive episodes, and him whining that once she threw a can at him. He was trying to make her out to be equally guilty and she was pointing out how ridiculous the comparison was.
Heard saying “I hit you, I didn’t punch you”? He forced open a door on her feet, and she shoved it off herself, hitting him. That’s the context. In the same recording, he even asks how her toes are.
Here’s a transcript of the full recording from one call. Everything in red is what was cut out when Depp’s lawyer leaked it online.
Depp is on tape saying “I headbutted you in the fucking forehead. That doesn’t break a nose.” He is on tape screaming abuse at her, telling her she doesn’t exist and not to pretend to be authoritative with him.
He is on tape saying, “Shut up, fatass,” in response to Heard telling him to put his cigarettes out on someone else. He is on tape asking Heard to “write him a letter every morning” reminding him not to hurt her.
He is on video destroying property while intoxicated and injuring himself in the process.
He is also silent on tape on three separate recordings when Heard references his abuse toward her. He doesn’t deny it.
Everyone believed Heard’s lies for years! It ruined Depp’s life!
No one ever believed Amber Heard. Here are people calling her friend io Tillet Wright a liar when io spoke up about calling 911 while Depp was assaulting Heard.
Here are people calling Heard a liar for not being injured enough in photos.
This is a Depp fan blog calling Amber a liar in 2016.
People were booing Heard as she walked into the UK court.
Even more screenshots of people calling her a liar.
She claimed Depp raped her with a broken bottle but she never sought medical attention!
Heard never said the bottle was broken. She said she hoped it wasn’t broken.
Only 21 percent of female sexual assault victims seek medical attention.
She denied him medication!
Heard did not withhold medication. When Depp was detoxing, she gave him meds at the time they were prescribed and not earlier than that. Depp said giving him medication at the prescribed time was “one of the cruelest things she has ever done” to him. Which is further proof from the horse’s mouth that he wasn’t abused.
The Virginia trial overturned the UK trial!
That’s not how anything works. The UK court found that it was true to call Depp a wife beater. Nothing that happens in the US can change that.
The UK trial only had to prove that The Sun believed what Amber said!
Wrong. In the UK, the defendants in libel cases have to prove that what they wrote was substantially true, not that they thought it was right or trustworthy. Justice Nicol found that twelve of fourteen assaults Heard testified to really happened and put her in fear for her life.
The UK is known for libel tourism because it’s so easy for plaintiffs to win libel cases there. The Sun has been sued for libel dozens of times and have only won twice. Depp’s case was one of them. He was that obviously an abuser.
The judge was biased in The Sun’s favor! His son works for them!
If his son worked for them, Justice Nicol would not have been able to try the case. That’s called a conflict of interest. This is common sense.
Here’s an article from The Sun calling Justice Nicol a dictator for ruling against them in another matter.
Also, two appellate court judges upheld Nicol’s findings.
The entire UK case was decided based on Heard’s word alone!
Justice Nicol wrote a 129 page ruling that reviewed each incident of abuse and all of the evidence (photographs, medical notes, contemporaneous text messages, diary entries, emails, etc.) for each incident.
And again, two appellate court judges upheld this ruling.
She didn’t. Depp decided to use a dog’s accident to smear her and forever associate her name with something gross, like the chess player accused of cheating via vibrating anal beads or Richard Gere and gerbils.
Here are the judge’s findings:
For what it is worth, I consider that it is unlikely that Ms Heard or one of her friends was responsible. Mr Depp had left that night for his property in Sweetzer. As long as he was away, it was Ms Heard who was likely to suffer from the faeces on the bed, not him. It was, therefore, a singularly ineffective means for Ms Heard or one of her friends to ‘get back’ at Mr Depp. Other evidence in the case showed that Boo (one of the two dogs) had an incomplete mastery of her bowels after she had accidentally consumed some marijuana. Ms Heard gave evidence that Boo had in the past defecated on the bed and that she herself had cleaned it up rather than leave that task to Ms Vargas. On 29th October 2014, Ms Heard wrote in a text message to Kevin Murphy that (see file 7/3(b)/H27.2), ‘Last night she [Boo] shit on Johnny. While he was sleeping. Like all over him. Not exaggerating.’
What’s more, Depp was the one obsessed with shit:
Here he is asking an assistant to defecate on the floor so Heard, thinking the dog had done it, would have to clean it up. He claimed in court that he made this text due to his lavatorial, childish sense of humor.
Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, and Marilyn Manson attempted to defecate and urinate on Depp’s own Hollywood Walk of Fame star. They were unable to do so.
Mutual abuse is not real. And real domestic violence experts recognize that Heard was Depp’s victim.
Either grow a brain or just stop talking.