Johnny Depp look back on his relationship with the ex-wife Amber heard and say he was a “crash test model for #Me too“In the series of several years of legal battles It followed.
In An interview with the Sunday TimesThe 62 -year -old actor thought about the long judicial affair, in which He continued heard for defamation in 2019 Above an editorial, she wrote in the Washington Post, in which she qualified as “public figure representing domestic violence”.
In June 2022, a jury of seven people governed in favor of Depp And granted the actor $ 10 million in damages. Heard received $ 2 million in a favorable decision on one of his three complaints against the combination.
“Listen, it had gone far enough. I knew I should myself semi-edified myself. Everyone said: “It will disappear! But I can’t trust this, “said Depp. “What is going to disappear?” Fiction taste in the world f -ING? No, this is not the case. If I do not try to represent the truth, it would be as if I had really committed the acts of which I am accused. And my children will have to live with it. Their children. The children I met in hospitals. So the day before the test in Virginia, I don’t feel nervous. If you don’t have to memorize the lines, if you are just talking about the truth?
THE Edward Scissorhands The actor added that he only knew “none of this was going to be easy”, but “I thought”, I will fight until the end of the bitter F -ing. What if I end up pumping gas?
During the legal battle, Depp faced a career reaction when Warner Bros asked him to leave the Fantastic animals franchise And he announced that he would not return to Pirates Caribbean Films after Disney would have separated from the actor.

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He said that it “hurt” to see “these false mother – who lie to you, you celebrate, say all kinds of horror behind your back, but keep the money – this confetti machine – because they want? Dough.”
“As strange as me, some things can be reliable”, Window Addition of the actor. “And my loyalty is the last thing that can be questioned. I was with an agent for 30 years, but she spoke in the court of difficulty. It is death by confetti.
“There are people, and I think of three, who made me dirty. These people were in my children’s holidays. Throw them into the air. And, look, I understand people who could not get up (for me), because the most frightening thing for them was to make the right choice. I was pre-# metoo.
“And I spared it, I took everything. And so I wanted hundreds of people I met in this industry to see who played safely. Better to wake up!
“I have no regrets about anything – because, really, what can we do last week dinner?” No Af-id thing. “
Depp continued by suggesting that his troubled relationship with Heard was due to his childhood and how it affected his relationship with love today.
“Well, that’s the thing.” That I had been in love. “This is where we could start, to look at the roots of” lovers of “. Because in terms of the way I was raised, I would not say that it was a house without love, but it was an intense love and I would not say that myself, nor my brothers and sisters, or my pop and my mom, have experienced great love or great happiness,” he said.
“It was almost as if I used to make conflicts,” he said about his childhood. “It was not abnormal. I did my best to enter and go out. ”
“So what were my initial relationships with what we call” love? “” He said. “Clearly obtuse. And what it means is that if you are a miller as I am, you sometimes look in a person’s eyes and see a sadness, a lonely thing and you feel that you can help this person.”
Depp continued by saying that “no good action remains unpunished” because “there are those who, when you try to love them and help them, will begin to understand you what this discomfort, this disturbance was in their eyes.”
“It manifests itself in other respects. And the interesting thing is that it is only a ribbon of my life that I chose to explore, because it is my mother and my father,” added Depp.
THE Black mass The actor said his mother, Betty Sue Depp, “liked to escape from time to time from reality and learned to live in a miserable state”.
“So, I am not surprised. I allowed myself to live something – in a small psychological sphere – to help understand what it was between my parents,” he said. “I had to understand how my father treated it. So it would be stupid for me to wear bitterness.
“Eternal hatred? Do you want to put curses on someone? No. I know who I am, what it was and, look, it was a learning experience. ”
Depp also spoke of his “return” to Hollywood after legal battles.
“Honestly? I have not gone nowhere,” he said, referring to the films he made recently, including Jeanne du Barry. “If I really had the chance to separate myself, I would never come back.”
Heard asked for DEPP’s divorce, citing irreconcilable differences in 2016 after the pair was married for about 15 months. Depp and heard met during the shooting The Rum Diary in 2011.
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