Sunday 21 May 2023

All Forgiven For Abuser Depp

You would hope that anyone convicted of domestic abuse would be shunned by all and sundry but the reaction to Johnny Depp turning up at the Cannes Film Festival proves that that isn't the case if you are famous enough.
The festival rolled out the red carpet and gave the actor a seven minute standing ovation for the Pirates of the Caribbean actor's first major movie role since millions around the world tuned in to watch his defamation trial against his former wife Amber Heard last year to hear him verbally abuse his then wife and send a text saying: 'Let’s burn Amber. Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.'
Other texts including calling her a: '50 cent stripper. Gold-digging, low-level, dime-a-dozen, mushy, pointless, dangling, overused flappy fish market.
I wouldn’t touch her with a goddam glove. I can only hope that karma kicks in and takes the gift of breath from her' and saying how he would 'smack the ugly cunt around'.
A high-profile battle came after the High Court ruled in 2020 that The Sun had not defamed Depp by referring to him as a 'wife beater' with the Judge finding 12 of Heard’s 14 violent abuse accusations were 'substantially true'.
How Depp found himself still a major actor in demand is disappointing enough but it sets an awful example to women everywhere that Heard wrote the Washington Post column which kick-started the whole thing to: 'Speak up against sexual violence' and she is the one forced to move abroad to stay out of the public eye while the dreadful and loathsome abuser is feted as a superstar.

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