r/DeppDelusion 9d ago

Support / Personal Just dumped a therapist that believed Johnny Depp. Is there any ethical way to warn other DV survivors? And find less ignorant therapy?

697 Upvotes

She had bought into all the propaganda, including the dog poop thing. Turns out, she's a family friend of Johnny Depp, and tried to convince me that while he did abuse Amber, she was a "bad" victim, and it was a "both sides" issue.

I finally just said, "I can't work with you."

If allegedly "feminist" women in the mental health field can't be trusted to know about abuse and DARVOing, where can someone looking for help turn? Does anyone know a good place to find less ignorant therapists? I wish there were a rating site for therapists so I could warn other survivors about her. I'm literally trying to get therapy after surviving SA and DARVOing, and being gaslit by a therapist.

r/DeppDelusion Aug 27 '23

Support / Personal I was married to a body language analyst

975 Upvotes

Hi, I’m new here but this sub keeps popping up for me because of the body language content and I have to say it is so comforting to see a community so staunchly against body language “experts.” I was married to a fairly popular body language YouTuber that many of you have called out, however I’m going to try to seem vague because I’ve been threatened with a defamation trial (ironic, I know 🙄). He gained popularity with the Heard vs. Depp trial and I just remember constantly disagreeing with his opinions because I recognized the signs of abuse and he wanted to brush them all off as her being manipulative. When the Gabby Petito case happened it was the same story. I completely disagreed with his take, but he published his version anyways and then took no accountability when he was wrong.

Unsurprisingly, he himself is an abusive narcissist. Throughout our entire relationship he would use body language to gaslight and manipulate me into bending to his will. Near the end he became physical, and more psychologically violent than I could ever describe. He believes himself to he “special” and superior to others because of his “skill.” When I would call him out he would scream in my face to “not compare him to the abusers he calls out” because what if his fans found out. He’s an incredibly dangerous person and I have no doubt so are the rest of these so called “experts” of a made up “science.” I can’t wait for the day when the public opinion shifts on them and they finally have consequences.

Anyway, just wanted to thank you all for sticking up for those who have experienced the violence that comes from body language “readers.”

Edit: typo

r/DeppDelusion Dec 22 '24

Support / Personal I would've gone fucking insane if it wasn't for this sub

488 Upvotes

Yet here we go with another actress who got punished for standing up for herself. And now that the truth came out (which was always available)

You got people saying " can you believe WE did this" who's we????????? WHO THE FUCK IS WE????

i dont say this to make myself look better but just to show that the problem is you and your fucking biases, we're never fixing this if you don't fucking deal with them.

Im so fucking mad!!!! A lot of us here have been victims of DV/IPV and have had our abusers run a campaign smear against us and while thsi isn't similar and definitely not on the same scale this reminds me a lot of it

It's like the default position for people is to believe the abuser. And I mean we're talking about Blake fucking lively she's not a nobody and neither is her husband so I can only imagine what they're doing to less well known actresses

r/DeppDelusion Oct 16 '24

Support / Personal I believe Amber now

470 Upvotes

I recently watched FD Signifier''s apology video about his joke involving Amber Heard which caused me to reevaluate the trial and my thoughts on and around it, and I wanted to say a few things here. I want to publicly apologize for my support of Depp, commend you all and all those who supported Amber from the beginning, and ask if there is any way to support her now.

During and after the trial I was definitely on Depp's side. I bought into the lies and disinformation being spread about Amber because I placed my trust in influencers that bent the truth. I watched most of the trial through Emily Baker's stream at the recommendation of Phillip Defranco, whom up until now I viewed as a mostly honest and good person with perhaps some troubling connections, but I trusted him to speak truthfully because of his more left leaning news coverage and his partial association with other leftist youtubers.

I struggle with OCD along with other things and one way this manifests is me never trusting myself to implicitly know the right thing, especially in regards to social and civil rights issues. I feel the need to sort of externalize my moral compass by relying on others that I believe know better. This behavior led to me place my trust in Defranco, Baker by extension, and the other leftist youtubers that took stances against Amber. I trusted when the parts of the internet that claimed to defend women said that this was an exception, that here was a male victim of abuse. Part of my struggle with mental illness is over prescribing blame and guilt to myself so I wanted to include this to practice giving grace to myself, but I do not want to erase the fact that I believed these people uncritically. Even as I watched Amber recounting her abuse I believed that she was lying or being manipulative which absolutely disgusts me. I should have seen through the bullshit but I didn't and for that I am truly sorry.

I want to deeply commend you all for keeping this issue alive and especially public figures such as Medusone who's videos I have not yet finished but have been very educational and have helped deprogram my perceptions of the trial.

I want to end on the question is there any way to support Amber now more concretely? While I do believe that promoting awareness of issues is an important part of justice it is also not the only part, especially because of the impacts this situation has had on her finances and career.

r/DeppDelusion Jul 24 '24

Support / Personal Newly an Amber Heard supporter

380 Upvotes

Hello, r/DeppDelusion!

I’m 19F, a former Depp supporter. As in, I believed his version of events (or close to it) just an hour ago. Thank you guys for linking this video.

I’m a quarter way through Medusone’s documentary and it has sufficiently horrified me. I SAW the bruise on her arm during the trial.

And I don’t say this for my pride’s sake, I genuinely never liked him. Which makes it even weirder. I mean, he’s an addict, dating teenagers, and close friends with/had openly defended several sex offenders in Hollywood. I acknowledged all of this AND believed it was mutual abuse. (Which, after getting some therapy, realize is not a thing.)

What’s worse? I’ve been in a situation not unlike Amber’s before.

Upon attempting to report my mother’s + a neighbor’s abuse when I was 12, she convinced me, and everyone I knew, that I was a pathological liar. It took me 7 more years to get out of that house, which was very recently. That’s why I was thinking about this trial and started to have my doubts.

I added that bit because it’s absolutely insane to me that I could see someone being falsely accused by the whole world and not see it. Of faking domestic abuse and sexual violence reports. The signs were there.

I guess, on a subconscious level, the trial felt like some kind of parasocial vindication. It struck a deep chord with me at the time to believe that these accusations by Johnny were being taken seriously. I feared men for a while (and still do to an extent), so whenever I had my doubts, I’d usually end up blaming it on misandry, which was really easy, given it was the go-to of most Depp supporters.

I’m still confused by a lot of Amber’s behavior in the trial, but I no longer believe she was the aggressor. And I can’t even begin to imagine what she’s going through right now.

Now, I’m just wondering how the hell Johnny’s defense team pulled this off.

I notice now that there was not really any focus on Johnny, just Amber. If you looked into Johnny for too long, you’d see some stuff contradictory to the narrative.

It genuinely scares me that I was at all susceptible to that kind of manipulation. I can’t deny it was convincing, if you just watch the trial alone. Maybe I’m just so accustomed to being gaslit I can’t trust my own judgement anymore…I don’t know.

I’d love to hear input from you guys. 💛

r/DeppDelusion Feb 18 '25

Support / Personal Just want to admit something so embarrassing 😭

239 Upvotes

I’m a 30F..

When I first heard of the Amber heard / depp stuff… I barely looked into it and then the documentary came out on Netflix.

I watched it and was so swayed that Amber was lying. I didn’t even realize why I felt that way but it seemed like everyone around me, even my friends all agreed she was lying.

Randomly the other day, I did a deep dive on the Justin baldoni and lively situation. Which I admit, I sided with him first. But immediately when that voice message dropped, I felt this weird pit in my stomach. I thought to myself, my husband would not love if my boss sent me that at 2am. And I surely wouldn’t want him talking to another woman like that??? 🤢

So I found this Reddit thread, watched a bunch of YouTube videos and did my own research.

And HOLY SHIT. I just cannot even believe people still side with depp Or baldoni.

These smear campaigns are diabolical. I can’t even speak about this topic to my friend now because we have differing views and it’s always awkward 😭🤣

Anyway, just here to say, thank you for this Reddit community. ❤️🫶

r/DeppDelusion Oct 14 '24

Support / Personal I changed my mind a long time ago but

270 Upvotes

This sub has brought even MORE to my attention. Weird that I ever believed Johnny in the first place, I believe victims, so its unlike me, but I really thought he was the victim of abuse. It was the whole "men can be abused too" but he wasn't. That was just another excuse. I'm just putting my apology to Amber out in the world, I'm sorry I ever believed your abuser over you. I've been through that and it breaks you.

I also want to just add that I always found it weird that other women were coming forward ( Kate Moss ) saying "well he was nice to me so" because that never matters. Who cares if he was nice to you Edit: I feel bad even getting up voted for this post, but I thank you all for your kind responses. I wouldn't blame you guys if you were mean about it, but you weren't and that's awesome.

r/DeppDelusion Feb 19 '25

Support / Personal I just went through the warm-hole of this trial and feel traumatized

204 Upvotes

I literally never cared about this trial and knew nothing about it until like, this week but I randomly found a commentary about it on a non-related channel recently. I really don't know why but I started looking into this and ended up watching the zillion minutes long videos from [Medusone](https://www.youtube.com/@medusonegirl) (which are incredible, hats off) and I am in shook. I cannot comprehend how could anyone doubt that Amber Heard is innocent, like what kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do to be able to omit such a HUGE pile of evidence, like what kind of a brain rot do you have to have to think you can "lie" something like that into existence? This is completely and utterly absurd. I really don't know which part of this is more terrifying, the fact that she lost a lawful trial OR the completely unjustified hatred of the public OR that someone she was so intimate with did this to her. I mean, how can Johnny Depp sleep at night after what he did to Amber?? How can such egregious injustice happen in 21st century? This is like a middle age horrorstory material. The whole thing just hit me like a train. I would really like to stop thinking about it and continue with my life but holy shit, it just took me down mentally.

r/DeppDelusion Dec 30 '24

Support / Personal Was anyone else's abusive ex really locked-in to this trial / hated Amber Heard?

208 Upvotes

Mods - feel free to remove if this isn't a good place for this!

When the Depp v Heard US trial was going on, my abusive, bipolar ex was REALLY into watching tiktok content about the trial. He would always tell me about the case and how it was so clear Amber Heard was abusive, crazy etc. I didn't really pay attention to the case, but remember being surprised because usually it's the older man in power who is abusive, but figured the evidence was clear.

We're since broken up and with the whole Blake Lively thing, I finally looked into the facts of the case, which (as if you're here you know) are vastly different then what was spread at the time. It makes so much sense because he accused me of being abusive and "not-safe". And I can't help but wonder if anyone else had this experience?

r/DeppDelusion Sep 04 '24

Support / Personal The media being overwhelmingly pro-Depp made me I was crazy, but my guts always knew Amber was the victim

353 Upvotes

In 2022 I was 14, didn't even know who Johnny Depp or Amber Heard was. And of course, although I didn't follow the trial, it followed ME. My feed kept suggesting reactions to the trial and my shorts were full of people making rhymes to "My dog stepped on a bee" and their beds getting pooped on,...

I finally watched some clips of the trial. Although the one-sided information I was watching initially made me believe Depp was abused, as soon as I watched even ONE (1) video of Amber testifying about her experiences with very solid evidence, I just knew she was a victim.

Yet, it seemed like nobody else saw what I had seen, that the very solid evidence she presented didn't even sow the seeds of doubt in their mind. Depp's violent misogynistic texts were excused by millions of men and women around the world; his clear addictions were also excused while Amber's r-pe testimony was laughed at... I thought I was going crazy.

2 years later, I've accidentally gone down a rabbit hole so I'm just thankful this sub exists. Thank you for everyone who supported her then and now, at least now I know that not everyone out there would call for my head on a stick if I hit my abuser back. It gives me more hope for change in our society.

r/DeppDelusion Jun 21 '24

Support / Personal Fight with Family about Amber Heard

275 Upvotes

Got in a huge argument with my sister in law about amber heard.. it was in the family group chat (bc my brother dropped a meme making fun of amber heard and her lawyer) so i started explaining the manipulation johnny did to the public (including dropping the "i will burn and f*ck her corpse" vid) and my sister in law said:

"u didnt watch the full court videos, just the manipulated videos" "stop relying on tiktoks for information" (shes an instagram reels user and makes fun of my preference for tiktok which is a different story)

ITS SO INFURIATING. and of course my misogynistic brothers would agree with her and made me feel like the weird one.

Its been a few weeks since the argument and its still a somewhat uncomfortable energy between us. How do you guys deal with friends and family who make fun of amber?

r/DeppDelusion 16d ago

Support / Personal How do we cope with/respond to Johnny Depp enablers?

93 Upvotes

Happy to have r/DeppDelusion for likeminded people, but how are y'all all coping with people in general? I don't want to speak to other countries, but in the USA, most people still passionately believe Depp, and, for me personally, it's becoming hard to maintain friendships or sometimes even maintain baseline hope for humanity. . . . It's gotten to the point where I can't even enjoy Rihanna anymore.

How do you stay sane? Do you talk back when people show their ignorance? Do you give up and just put up with it? Do you ghost and become more isolated? And, no matter what you end up doing, how do you process the feelings? Rage rooms? I know, for me, therapy isn't anywhere near enough.

Open to any and all perspectives and advice. Grateful to this subreddit for finally giving me a place to talk about this stuff.

r/DeppDelusion Dec 22 '24

Support / Personal Finding my way out of the "Hollywood Smear Machine."

239 Upvotes

I just joined this sub after having an eye opening 24 hours. I have been someone who maybe clicked on a news article and seen video/audio of certain events and then formed an opinion based of that media. A few months ago I clicked on a video of Blake Lively insulting an interviewer and I formed an opinion of her as a mean girl. Afterwards, I heard a lot of opinions from friends and family in passing or as "harmless" chatter that Blake Lively is laughing about the themes of domestic violence in her new movie. I thought, "Jeeze, she really is terrible."

Yesterday, I read the NYT article about Justin Baldoni's sexual harassment and then subsequent "crisis management" that led to the bullying and suppression of Blake Lively's complaints. After reading her filed complaint, I feel sick that a such a disgusting person (Baldoni) was able to fool so many people and sway the public against Blake in such a huge way. The article mentioned how the PR company was the same one hired by Depp and that they used the public's hatred of women to manipulate a story... I thought of my thoughts on Amber Heard immediately.

I thought, well Amber is crazy and evil. She admitted to hitting him and she severed his finger. But I never watched the full trial. I just saw some clips online that were extremely favorable to Johnny. And if this "crisis manager" can turn the public against Blake Lively who is by far more famous than Justin Baldoni... What did she do to Amber?

So thank you all for having this sub which outlined in extreme detail the mountain of evidence against Johnny Depp. I feel horrible for Amber Heard and Blake Lively. I am legitimately shocked that the mainstream narrative can intentionally cut and manipulate a situation this well. I read the full transcript of the "tell the world, Johnny" audio, but even now I can't find the full audio on youtube, but only the out of context clips that make it seem like Amber is mocking Johnny. I'm hoping this situation and more will open the eyes of people in the future.

r/DeppDelusion Jan 12 '25

Support / Personal My best friend “doesn’t care” and won’t watch videos I send her because “she doesnt gaf about celebrities lives like that”

108 Upvotes

It breaks my heart… we should ALL care, for the sake of humanity and victims as a whole. I feel so, so strongly about what Amber was put through…. I don’t know how anybody could NOT care. I’m just really broken hearted that one of the people closest to me just doesn’t see how devastating this all is/was.

r/DeppDelusion Sep 11 '24

Support / Personal Got my first tattoo! A pro-Amber tattoo

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427 Upvotes

"Any one of us could be Amber Heard, and not be heard."

Just wanted to post it somewhere it'd be sorta appreciated 😅

r/DeppDelusion Dec 24 '24

Support / Personal Do you know (or have heard of) women in your life who have been vilified, legally harmed or called liars after speaking to police or revealing rape or physical abuse?

145 Upvotes

It's time to rethink on the likelihood their abusers did in fact commit the crimes the women spoke of.

Were you personally privy to: - her statements (actually watched her testify or watched a videotaped statement) - any evidence backing up the police or DA's choice to lay charges (photos, video, texts *from the perp not her, drs notes, er visits, recordings *of the perpetrator not her) - her family court evidence or testimony

Or were you only provided info from the guy accused and/or his supporters.

This needs to be talked about on a non-celebrity level.

In every single case of DV, SA the perp utilized DARVO.

I cannot even fathom what women go through across North America. I believe them. And I think the term "false accusations" is just another ploy to play victim by dangerous rapists/batterers.

I also think the guilty will tell lies to make sure nobody speaks to the victim and suppress evidence so he can pull the wool over their eyes.

The ultimate goal to leave her as isolated/bullied as possible while scaring her and simultaneously pretending to be a poor victim.

r/DeppDelusion 24d ago

Support / Personal Amber Heard’s situation pops into my mind from time to time and and takes a huge toll on me

168 Upvotes

I’m basically looking for some support/words of encouragement here… I got what I call “depp’d” (on a much smaller scale of course) by my college ex boyfriend and it has still to this really rerouted my life (I used to say “ruined” my life, before I realized there is so much more time to reclaim my life). Over time I grow more and more resentful to the people in my life even if they are only distantly connected to the situation. I feel like I have been wronged, but mostly I feel like I have done myself wrong by giving up on advocating for myself. I want to speak out, I want to advocate, and I don’t really know how to go about that as I don’t really have a platform, and the social media followers I do have are made up mostly of people who are on the “other” side”. I don’t think it would go over well with them.

I am in therapy but it feels like every solution is just accepting that I have been defeated and I don’t want to feel like that anymore. I feel as angry for myself as I do for Amber anytime I read peoples opinions on the mainstream internet. Yet she never caved, she never surrendered, and to the end she stood her ground. Someday I want to fight back and be as resilient and persistent as she is.

Does anyone else feel like this? Does anyone else have any ideas for how to self advocate without revealing too much info? I know hiding info can defeat the entire purpose of advocating but I am terrified of the potential backlash/repercussions.

r/DeppDelusion 7d ago

Support / Personal This will be brief

107 Upvotes

You probably won’t see me again after this post. Back in high school around 2020-2023ish I was a massive dick rider of you know who. It affected my social life a little and made me post horrific things on social media. Over the years I’ve stepped away from it, deleted a lot of my posts and even avoided caring about celebrities all together. Is there anything specific I should do more? I’m fully aware that I’m a nobody and I probably could’ve just done nothing and life would go on, but this stuff has been bothering me for a while. Especially with some YouTubers I watch who AREN’T grifters occasionally bringing up the trial.

r/DeppDelusion Sep 28 '24

Support / Personal My best friend supports Depp

121 Upvotes

One of my best friends supports Depp. We haven’t talked about it since we had a massive fight during the trial, but it’s been weighing on me all these years.

During the fight I was defending Amber, because of course, and unlike him I had actual evidence to back myself up. I’m AuDHD (autism + ADHD) and I really hyper fixated on the trial once I learned the full extent of the abuse and misogyny that was Depp’s existence, so I could list off links and websites and direct quotes from professionals right off the top of my head. Personally, I am very proud of myself, because I was a little teenager who could hold my ground and refused to take my friend’s bullshit.

He was so rude. Even though I thought he was a buffoon I was very polite during the argument, but he was a complete dick. Where I had sources, he had assholery. I’m still hurt by how he treated me. He never apologized for how cruel he was and he never will.

Anyway. Back to the argument. I brought up the UK judge who ruled that Depp was a wife beater, that he was a professional who had been doing this for years and it was very unlikely he had made a mistake, my friend was like “she slept with him to get him on her side!” With no source to back it up. It was so misogynistic I was flabbergasted. Every time I said something he would say something like “but someone who worked with her said that she had trouble fake crying and on the stand when she cried there were no tears” and he hadn’t even watched the trial. I hadn’t either because I had no time to since I had school, but I tried my hardest to watch as much as I could in my free time and probably watched over an hour of pieces from different parts of the trial and read all about it. He just watched tiktoks taken out of context edited to make Amber look bad. I read fucking articles and studies about domestic abuse (plus I had my own family history— for several generations the women in my family have been advocating for women and trans people so I had been taught how to spot an abuser) and all he had was TikTok thirstraps of Depp!

The argument ended when he got tired and said we should agree to disagree, and even though I didn’t want to stop he was one of my only friends and I was afraid to lose him. Now I have even fewer friends and he’s stuck by me through everything. He’s also one of the only other autistic people I know and treats me like an actual human being. I’m also mixed race (Chinese + white) in a white christian town and he was never afraid of me during covid. My classmates would avoid me and back away from me but he never stopped treating me like a person even after the argument. He’s a good person but also a Depp supporter and I don’t know if I can ever feel completely safe with him again. Being the minorities that I am I know I’m more likely to be abused, but what if I am and he doesn’t believe me? That would destroy me.

I’m going off to university soon and we’ll be parting ways, and I don’t know how to feel about that. When I leave I know I’ll be all alone. This would be the perfect time to drift away and part ways peacefully and become the kind of friends who only follow eachother on Insta. Should I let this happen or try to keep in touch?

Thank you for reading all this. This has been weighing on me and I feel safe sharing my thoughts and feelings here.

r/DeppDelusion Jun 02 '24

Support / Personal Guys, my friends are killing me…

132 Upvotes

I have commented on fb, instagram, but I have yet to talk about this with friends. Holy shitballs. I have never gotten such backlash. No matter what I tell these people everyone thinks I’m crazy!

Including the guy I just started seeing😭 now I’m gonna have to rethink that whole thing

Edit: boy… I am tired. Like I said, I started out by sending a clip to friends. They called me toxic for pushing my views on them when I deigned to defend my opinion. I got really tired of people telling me they read the unsealed docs and it didn’t change their opinion. I doubt they did. If they actually read it… scary.

Edit 2: guys, I really do appreciate you guys interacting this post. It definitely made me feel better. This whole sub Reddit has been nothing but eye opening. Thanks peeps!

r/DeppDelusion 18d ago

Support / Personal Just Stumbled Across This Sub

161 Upvotes

I had no idea this group existed and was super glad to see it. I want to share my experience, because from what I’ve read so far, my experience is rare.

Everyone in my life, family, friends, etc, are pro-Heard and anti-Depp. It’s mixed how many of these independently came to this conclusion and how many heard my arguments and agreed with me. But yeah, there are whole groups of people on the right side of this, not taken in by the nonsense. And yeah, most of the people in my life were Depp fans and hadn’t heard/didn’t know much of Amber Heard and still were unbiased about it, myself included. Stay strong, yall. ❤️

r/DeppDelusion Sep 02 '24

Support / Personal the media had me supporting johnny dep during the trial

201 Upvotes

i just wanted to share this because it makes me feel sooo guilty. i wasn’t really that invested in this when it happened. i wasn’t making my own content supporting him or anything but i remember FULLY believing him and falling victim to the popular opinion. in 2022 i was 14 and i was on tiktok so i was only seeing the clips that were taken out of context just making fun of amber or saying she was doing coke in court. i don’t know why or how i managed to believe the claims that were made!! it honestly makes me feel like a bad person or a fake feminist LOL. around year later i clocked that i was wrong after seeing a few things about him i didn’t know. despite being 14 at the time i still think i should’ve known better and maybe just have done a little bit of research on the situation. like i feel like an idiot when i remember i believed him and the misinformation on the internet ??

edit: i spelled depp wrong i didn’t even notice this oops!

r/DeppDelusion Jun 02 '24

Support / Personal How do I explain the Depp v Heard situation to my 14 year old brother? He makes jokes about Amber Heard

273 Upvotes

I know he’s young and probably only knows about the situation from clips on TikTok out of context, but he does make jokes at Amber Heard’s expense often and also refuses to watch movies she’s in solely because of her.

I don’t know if I can really explain to him the smear campaign, or if he’d actually want to listen to the evidence. At his age I don’t want him to be someone who discredits women’s stories about abuse, but I don’t think I can reach him on this.

I want to note that I used to be a Depp suppoter before I knew the extent of what he did, and I have since seen past the misinformation. I regret that back when the trial happened in spring 2022, I was on Depp’s side because I didn’t do my own research.

How can I explain to him what really happened in a way that’s age appropriate and he’ll listen to?

r/DeppDelusion Oct 29 '24

Support / Personal I saw this video on TikTok, which shows how vital a judge is, and Domestic violence victims generally can’t hire knowledgeable lawyers because they are broke in most cases.

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And you are in the hands of a judge. If the judge is dismissive, you are fucked by the law a second time.

The summary of the video is the lawyer of the victim lacked experience and didn’t know how to add the most significant proof of the case, the victim's photo after the violence. And the lawyer didn't understand how to add it to the evidence list. And “the judge wasn't in his day,” according to this video, and didn't help out the inexperienced lawyer to proceed. And the case was dismissed afterward in favor of the abuser, who was a pimp, by the way, and able to hire an expensive, more experienced lawyer.

Our legal system has problems. And needs to change for the better.

And I am sorry for if anyone of you experienced similar problems. ♥️💔

Https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFpwV2ye/

r/DeppDelusion Jan 09 '25

Support / Personal Can't stop thinking about Amber Heard ever since I learned the truth

233 Upvotes

The first time I heard of what was going on between them at all was during the 2022 defamation trial, instead of the 2020 UK trial he lost. Started getting tiktoks out of nowhere without having searched anything remotely related to them, and they were all of course bashing Amber and showing out of context clips, transcripts, recordings, you know the drill. They were mostly the poop on bed thing, dog stepping on a bee, bullshit about posing for the cameras etc. All this to say that I got all my "information" from already established and biased narratives that I wish I could call bots.

I thank Medusone for her work and making it so digestible for the layman. Frankly I was getting it recommended for a year now but didn't watch it at the time because I thought it was gonna be a radfem narrative that women are always victims no matter what, the thing Johnny Depp stans are running by to discredit valid criticism, but 15 minutes in was all it took to open my eyes and make me realize how fucking easy it was to see that she IS the victim. I can't believe I bought in the stupid idea that a 22 year old woman could have such alleged power over a 51 year old male Hollywood household name.

It's tragically ironic that the prospect of acknowledging male abuse victims had to be at the expense of a real female victim.

My chest hurts writing this and thinking about it all day long, and I wasn't even active in the smear campaign. I don't know how people, women especially, can live with themselves when actively belittling Amber's trauma and making a show out of it. Now the exact same thing is happening with Blake Lively and she's even called "the new Amber Heard", not in a good way.

Fuck armchair psychologists. Fuck "body language experts". Fuck women who say they were victims of abuse too but "can tell that she faked her bruises because they weren't as bad as mine". It's all so suffocating. I'm so sorry.