Johnny Depp makes rare comments on Amber Heard trial and their relationship
Johnny Depp has been speaking about his turbulent relationship with Amber Heard in the Sunday papers
Johnny Depp has made some rare comments about his time with Amber Heard and the former couple's subsequent trial that gripped the entire world.
Depp and Heard met in 2009 while filming The Rum Diary, though their relationship is believed to have began late 2011 or early 2012.
They got engaged in January 2014, before tying the knot just over a year later in February 2015.
Their marriage didn't last long, however, as Depp and Heard separated in 2016 - though that certainly wasn't the end of the matter.
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A long-winded court case came about after Heard claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse in an op-ed piece for the Washington Post in 2018.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star wasn't explicitly named in the piece. However, Depp brought a defamation case against Heard in 2019, alleging that his ex-wife had claimed that he'd 'perpetrated domestic violence against her', calling it 'categorically and demonstrably false' (via The Independent).
Heard then counter-sued against Depp to $100 million, adding even further media coverage to the trial.
Ultimately, in 2022, a jury found in favour of both Depp's original suit, awarding Depp $10.35 million in damages, while Heard received $2 million after winning one of her three counter-claims against her ex.
Some three years later, Depp has been speaking to The Sunday Times about his relationship with Heard.
"If you’re a sucker like I am, sometimes you look in a person’s eye and see some sadness, some lonely thing and you feel you can help that person," the actor said.
"But no good deed goes unpunished, because there are those who, when you try to love and help them, will start to give you an understanding of what that malaise, that perturbance was in their eyes. It manifests itself in other ways.
"And the interesting thing is that it is merely a sliver of my life I have chosen to explore."
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor even spoke about the trial during his discussion with The Sunday Times.
The 62-year-old said: "Look, it had gone far enough. I knew I’d have to semi-eviscerate myself. Everyone was saying, ‘It’ll go away!’ But I can’t trust that. What will go away? The fiction pawned around the f****** globe? No, it won’t.
"If I don’t try to represent the truth, it will be like I’ve actually committed the acts I am accused of. And my kids will have to live with it. Their kids. Kids that I’ve met in hospitals.
"So the night before the trial in Virginia, I didn’t feel nervous. If you don’t have to memorize lines, if you’re just speaking the truth? Roll the dice.
Depp said that while he knew none of it ‘was going to be easy’, he didn’t care.
“I’ll fight until the bitter f**king end.’ And if I end up pumping gas? That’s all right. I’ve done that before,” he added.
Depp went on to say that he was a ‘crash test dummy’ for the MeToo movement.
“And I sponged it, took it all in. And so I wanted from the hundreds of people I’ve met in that industry to see who was playing it safe,” he said.
Topics: Amber Heard, Celebrity, Johnny Depp, Court, News, Film and TV
Callum Jones