[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah. You also get the impression that people just want to believe Johnny is completely innocent because he's a well loved good looking actor, it feels to me that people in general (not always just men either) are more comfortable with the woman being the bad one and the liar. Initially, people believed Amber because of some recordings but when some others came out to show her acting abusive it was like people were so relieved they could now act like Johnny was the poor manipulated good guy when that really does not seem to be the case at all, it looks very much like both of them acted abusive and aggressive.

I've no love for Johnny Depp, in fact I fully believed everything Amber Heard said about him. I always believe the victims but those tapes... Victims don't gloat about how the world won't believe their supposed abusers, that is abuser talk. That, coupled with the other stories that came out (and most horrifically, her appropriating her assistant's rape story), just screams emotional and mental abuse. It's something I know a lot about, how abusers like that will bend the narrative to make them the victim, how they keep people under their control.

I just can't see Amber Heard as the victim, here.