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Jhonny depp and amber heard are two well known actors in the Hollywood. They started
dating in 2012 and finally tied the knot in 2015, however this happy relationship of theirs
came to an end just 15 months later in May 2016, when Heard pleaded “irreconcilable
differences” and everything was history. Until December 2018 when The Washington Post
published an OP-ED from Heard, titled “I Spoke Up Against Sexual Violence - And Faced Our
Culture’s Wrath. That Has to Change”, She never mentioned Depp by name but many
believed that she was speaking of her former husband when she mentioned death threats
and the hit her career took in the wake of the divorce and allegations.
Not only the readers of the Washington post felt that way, Depp’s legal team filed a
defamation suit against his ex-wife that the accusations filed were categorically false and
defamed the highly esteemed actor supposedly costing him his role (which he later got
back) in the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise. Earlier Heard had succeeded in getting a
restraining order against Depp before getting divorced, on account of multiple visible
bruises on Heard’s faced allegedly caused by Jhonny Depp which already had painted a
picture that Depp was the main aggressor and Heard was a victim of Domestic Violence. The
defamation suit later on targeted this accusation saying she had gone to the court with
“painted-on -bruises”.
All of the voices supporting Heard’s story The Daily Beast, The Mary Sue, HuffPost went
silent when an alleged voice recording of the couple’s therapy session went viral online.
These recordings suggested that Depp was not the only aggressor, both of them mutually
agreed and apologised for the violent act towards each other. This sent a shockwave to
many supporters of Heard and all questioned as to how she could become an ambassador
against domestic violence and #MeToo movement when she was in as much wrong as was
Depp, maybe more.
This no way exonerated Depp but only showed that it is not wise to always label the man as
the aggressor, women could be the aggressor as much as a man could be.