Why Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are suing 3 years after their divorce, and who was actually a victim of domestic violence in a Hollywood family

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In July 2020, a London court hearing began in the case of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Their marriage ended in 2017, but the proceedings of the former spouses have been going on for three years now. In court, shocking details of the actors' family life were revealed, and now it is completely unclear who actually turned out to be the victim of domestic violence in a star marriage.

And happiness was so possible

Their story began back in 2010, when 24-year-old actress Amber Heard met Hollywood star Johnny Depp on the set of The Rum Diary. He was already 46, he was known for a long time, in his life there were many novels and hobbies, one official marriage with the artist Laurie Ann Allison, a failed wedding with Winona Ryder and a civil marriage with Vanessa Paradis, in which two children were growing up.

However, Amber Heard also boasted a very stormy personal life. By the time she met Johnny Depp, the beauty had managed to get a divorce and have a whirlwind romance with a photographer girl Tasei Wan Ri. Later, the actress will make a statement about her bisexuality and even admit that she and Tasya are married. True, it could not be called official, since at that time in California, same-sex marriage had not yet been legalized.

Vanessa Paradis was a wonderful wife, she not only provided warmth and comfort in their common home, but also gently, but very confidently led her husband to the idea that bad habits should be tied up. She supported Depp in pursuit of a healthy lifestyle, tirelessly emphasized how well her husband copes with the role of head of the family and caring father, and, perhaps, could eventually put on a wedding ring on his finger. But Johnny Depp himself, as it turned out, lacked drive in his life. And he got it in full in marriage with Amber Heard. Unfortunately, this marriage was not at all happy for him.

But at that moment, neither he nor she had yet thought about a romantic relationship. Depp only noted: Amber is very similar to Lauren Bacall, one of the most famous actresses of the golden age of Hollywood. But after filming, during the tour, where the actors presented The Rum Diary, Amber Heard did everything to charm Johnny Depp.

She admired his talent, shared her experiences with him, talked about the sad experience that she had to endure after her divorce from her husband. And she got her way: one of the most famous actors in Hollywood completely lost his head from her.

Love manipulation

In the summer of 2012, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard break up with their girlfriends and start living together. But the young beauty understood too well that the absence of the official status of the wife of a star made her position too precarious.

Just a month after the actors began to live together, the girl suddenly decided to "take a break" in their relationship. Johnny Depp did everything to return his beloved. But only six months passed, and she again disappeared from his life, having entered into a relationship with model Marie de Villepin. This time, the return of her beloved was preceded by financial investments from Depp: expensive restaurants, chic gifts and romantic gestures. But Amber knew all too well what she wanted from Johnny. She wanted to get an official marriage proposal, which Depp made in January 2014.

And in February 2015, the actors got married. True, it lasted only 15 months. The divorce filing date was especially cynical. Amber Heard, not caring too much about her husband's condition, went to court just three days after Johnny Depp lost his mother. And in the statement of claim, she indicated the amount of alimony that she would like to receive from her ex-husband: 50 thousand dollars a month.

Hunter or prey

In her statement to the court, Amber Heard indicated that throughout her marriage she was abused by her star husband, and she had many reasons to fear for her own life. As a result, Johnny Depp was forbidden to approach Amber Heard closer than a few meters.

But the actress's attempts to portray herself as a victim looked more and more pitiful, and soon she decided to refuse alimony, content with compensation in the form of several million. And she announced her intention to spend this money on charity. Depp immediately transferred the entire amount to the account of the mentioned Heard charitable foundation and even sent a receipt to his former lover.

Johnny Depp managed to cope with the consequences of Amber Heard's treachery, looked with a smile at the actress's attempts to demand money from him again, brought himself into proper shape and in the spring of 2019 filed a complaint with the court, hoping to restore his own reputation in the eyes of the public. And at the same time receive compensation of $ 50 million from the beauty Amber.

In addition, the actor said: he has evidence that he was the victim of domestic violence and manipulation by his wife. Johnny Depp's defenders declared their readiness to provide evidence to the court that Amber Heard repeatedly provoked Johnny Depp, humiliated him, calling him a fat old man and a disgusting father, pounced on him with fists, cheated, including with Elon Musk and Cara Delevingne, arranged a toilet from their marriage bed, and once cut off a piece of his finger with a shard of a whiskey bottle.

As evidence of his innocence, Depp provided the court with recordings from a session with a psychotherapist, to whom the spouses contacted. From it it becomes clear: Amber Heard is not at all an innocent lamb. She accused her husband of the fact that as soon as she “hit him in the face”, he immediately ran away. When Hurd provided the court with an audio recording of Johnny Depp's rampages, the actor noted that only furniture was damaged that day. He took out his evil on tables and chairs, but at the same time he did not touch his wife with a finger.

The more details of the actors' family life were revealed, the more the positions of Hurd and Depp changed. Several lawyers suddenly left the actress, and the activists of the MeToo movement, who had previously supported Amber, turned their backs. At the same time, his former lovers Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis stood up to protect Johnny Depp. Both women said that the actor is not capable of violence and, even in the most difficult situations, never raised his hand against a woman.

In addition, Johnny Depp, as if waking up from a spell, began to remember all the details of their romance and realized that Amber Heard skillfully manipulated his feelings. It was not love that guided the actress in her quest to marry him. She simply made him a springboard for her own career, used his name and, having achieved her goal, set out to also get rich at his expense. Legal proceedings between the ex-spouses continue, and Depp seems to have every chance not only to restore his reputation, but also to receive a very decent amount of compensation for the moral and material damage caused to him by his ex-wife.

Johnny Depp is one of the highest paid actors in the world. The fees for his films are fabulous, reaching $ 50 million for shooting. Each role is unique, eccentric and engraved in the memory of the viewer for a long time. For decades, Depp has remained a popular and popular starring actor.