Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard plus The Sun.
Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard plus The Sun.
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rjg48

Original Poster:

2,671 posts

85 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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Verdict in...

Depp lost the Libel Case.

anonymous-user

78 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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This verdict is certainly not going to help his future career.

He has already been told that he isn't returning to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, and he has just had a new film 'City of Lies" scrapped before it reaches cinemas due to this court case.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 2nd November 13:13

dundarach

6,005 posts

252 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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What a mess.

Doesn't help him and his career.

Doesn't help victims on either side.

Almost better to suck it up..which is terrible .

They both look as mad as a bag of frogs!

anonymous-user

78 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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Well st the bed.

saaby93

32,038 posts

202 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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It's gone quiet for a while but didnt the published testimony portray it the other way round?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54779430


Edited by saaby93 on Monday 2nd November 10:39

dxg

10,161 posts

284 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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Argleton said:
Well st the bed.
wink

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

147 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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Even if he won this case the details which came out in court would have had a negative impact on his career. Seems rather silly bringing it all to court now.

anonymous-user

78 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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dundarach said:
What a mess.

Doesn't help him and his career.

Doesn't help victims on either side.

Almost better to suck it up..which is terrible .

They both look as mad as a bag of frogs!
Pretty much this.

They both come out of it looking like violent nutters.

Some of the text messages Depp sent to his friends are off the scale though, and if anyone hires him in the future, I will be surprised.

Just one example included him texting actor Paul Bettany, plotting to drown and burn her as a witch and “f**k her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead”.


320d is all you need

2,114 posts

67 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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I've been "following" the story as a detraction from this Covid crap.

I have to be honest from the recordings I've heard Amber really does sound like a proper nut job.

The way she acts and carries herself just seems to make everything Johnny says seem all the more true.

Granted, he has also acted badly at times but I don't believe he's abused her at all in any way.

Problem is, now he officially looks like an abuser, and has screwed up his career in the future.

BurtonLazars

579 posts

68 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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As the son of an abusive narcissistic , I have less time for Amber Heard than I do my egg donor...

...but is Johnny’s career really ended by this? At his age and with the covid freeze, he wasn’t going to be swashbuckling his way through anything - if you’ve seen the frail state of him stood on the court steps. I would’ve thought he can do indie films that he likes with people he likes and it’ll not affect him in the slightest.

I do think the inevitable rage that will be induced by her team - now that she has fire in her eyes by being “proved right” by the court - will be horrific for all involved except the lawyers.

anonymous-user

78 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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Lord Marylebone said:
Pretty much this.

They both come out of it looking like violent nutters.

Some of the text messages Depp sent to his friends are off the scale though, and if anyone hires him in the future, I will be surprised.

Just one example included him texting actor Paul Bettany, plotting to drown and burn her as a witch and “f**k her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead”.
Sounds so silly that you couldn't really believe he meant it. It's just words coming from a fella whose made his living being someone else, more often than not that character has been a fantastical or leftfield type.


Hunter S Thompson.
Jack Sparrow.
Edward Scissorhands.
Willy Wonka!

There is a bit of all of them in him.

The Wookie

14,189 posts

252 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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The judge's closing statement does sort of highlight how this was unlikely to going to go any other way

On the presented evidence it's likely he's laid hands on her at some point. She might be an absolute fking not job who was provoking it, but to have the verdict any other way would have been painted as blaming a victim for their own domestic abuse, or seen as empowering men to slap their spouses around if they're too much of a pain in the arse

My opinion is that they're both nutters, who is worse is probably down to each person's individual interpretation of what's been reported

Randy Winkman

20,994 posts

213 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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320d is all you need said:
I've been "following" the story as a detraction from this Covid crap.

I have to be honest from the recordings I've heard Amber really does sound like a proper nut job.

The way she acts and carries herself just seems to make everything Johnny says seem all the more true.

Granted, he has also acted badly at times but I don't believe he's abused her at all in any way.

Problem is, now he officially looks like an abuser, and has screwed up his career in the future.
"He has also acted badly at times"? Yes, he's just lost a court case in the Royal Courts of Justice about being a "wife beater". Did you see that?

anonymous-user

78 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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The Wookie said:
The judge's closing statement ...

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A point of detail: It's not a "closing statement", it's a judgment.

The Wookie

14,189 posts

252 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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anonymous said:
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Bill Murray basically said that he absorbed some of HST's darkness after spending time with him to portray him, it makes you wonder if Jonny Depp might have suffered the same fate.

Again, whether it's a real darkness or just elaborately worded dark humour is a probably a point of view

Gary29

4,929 posts

123 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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anonymous said:
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A good friend of mine and I text each other 'out there' stuff like this all the time, trying to outdo each other at the level of depravity we can sink to, we find it amusing and almost therapeutic. If I ever get wrongly accused of a serious crime and they sift through my phone history, I could see myself being on a bit of a sticky wicket trying to explain my way out of it.

(Un)luckily I'm not a Hollywood star so no one gives a st about me or my warped sense of humour.

It's easy to see how exchanges between close friends can be taken completely out of context.

BurtonLazars

579 posts

68 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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Gary29 said:
A good friend of mine and I text each other 'out there' stuff like this all the time, trying to outdo each other at the level of depravity we can sink to, we find it amusing and almost therapeutic. If I ever get wrongly accused of a serious crime and they sift through my phone history, I could see myself being on a bit of a sticky wicket trying to explain my way out of it.
Same. It boggles my mind that anyone would think such texts were anything other than schoolboy/ gallows humour.

PushedDover

7,153 posts

77 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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Lord Marylebone said:
and he has just had a new film 'City of Angles" scrapped before it reaches cinemas due to this court case.
No doubt an obtuse film anyway wink

saaby93

32,038 posts

202 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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PushedDover said:
Lord Marylebone said:
and he has just had a new film 'City of Angles" scrapped before it reaches cinemas due to this court case.
No doubt an obtuse film anyway wink
issues of new work could become acute



Edited by saaby93 on Monday 2nd November 13:09

Stay in Bed Instead

22,362 posts

181 months

Monday 2nd November 2020
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Sky reporting that his legal team are stating he will appeal.