The Depp-Heard saga more-or-less officially “ended” today. It appears that there had been an ongoing “negotiation” between the two sides to give Amber Heard what in her mind would be the fig leaf of a “victory” in exchange for dropping her appeal—which she finally got into her fantasy world head that she wasn’t going to win and would be even more damaging to what was left of her “credibility” as a human being.
Johnny Depp said his case against Heard wasn’t about money, but clearing his name. Heard was going to insist to the very end that Depp’s decision to end this relationship with a narcissistic, sociopathic B-lister was all his “fault” and he was going to “pay” in a way that all of society would condemn him for the rest of his life.
But oh, what a tangled web some people weave if they think they can get away with it, as the MeToo movement promised. Heard—accompanied by a statement on Instagram full of the expected mind-blowing lies and disingenuousness, totally lacking in any sense of responsibility for her own actions—ended her appeal of the Virginia verdict and “settled” with Depp for $1 million dollars. For Depp, the piddling sum was less important than the fact the defamation verdict remains standing (confirmed by his legal team), his reputation vindicated.
For Heard, she can lie all she wants, but everyone knows that this wasn’t about going through a “third trial,” because there wasn’t going to be one. She read the tea leaves: the chances that the Virginia appeals court was going to overturn the verdict were next to nil. Why continue this quixotic exercise in futility when she still has those lawsuits concerning the insurance companies battling over who must pay her legal expenses, or even if they must pay at all.
In the end, all
her attempts to deny all and “rehabilitate” her image were an abject failure as
the Depp rehab project continues unabated—with Jerry Bruckheimer now quoted in
the Hollywood Reporter today that
Depp can be in another POTC if he wants to—and is of course buoyed by the fact
that the verdicts that found that Heard defamed him with “actual malice” remain
on the books for all the world to contemplate. None of the verbal vomit that
spills out of Heard’s mouth will change that. This snap poll by Variety makes this abundantly clear:
Heard is a
pathological liar who tried to destroy a life, and people know this, and the
vast majority of the public with an opinion on the matter won’t forgive her for
that. The fact that the statement she released is full of lie after lie without
betraying a shred of personal responsibility shows that she is simply incapable
of understanding why people hate her. One of her more despicable claims was that her lies went "unprotected," meaning she believed that her testimony should not have been subject to examination for its credibility, the "believe all women" line.
Her best option, seeing that she can’t help but tell lies, is to just shut-up; this appears unlikely, since Heard insists in her statement that there is a no “gag” order on her (meaning her "memoir"?), and she will continue to portray herself as a “victim” of domestic and sexual violence because she has nothing left to “give” to the world, and that world comprising of a fanatical few whose worldview is based on the idea of gender “victimhood.”
Heard cannot undo what we learned in the Virginia trial: her “evidence” in court that was clearly so meager that her attempts to shoehorn them into her stories of abuse only caused disbelief and extreme annoyance—and that was “assuming” that the “evidence” actually had any relation to any alleged incident of abuse (and not, say, “zit” or Botox injection “bruises” that were photographed for later “use”). We also saw those fake “tears,” and how she could turn from eye-rolling “hysterics” to smug, sneering contemptuousness, the latter which was her true self, on a dime.
We heard those cringe-worthy audio clips that Heard’s efforts to “explain away” only caused more anger and disbelief. We heard her lie repeatedly about the most innocuous of facts—not just the “donations,” but her insistence that she didn’t know how the edited kitchen cabinet video gravitated from her own phone to TMZ’s website. People don’t like being treated like idiots—and that included the jurors. And we saw that all of those former “friends” who refused to come to the courtroom to personally defend her—let alone having to be in the same room with her again—and none of them testified to actually seeing Depp abuse Heard.
Heard still doesn’t “get it,” as the comments section from various reports of this story demonstrate, which are almost wholly in disbelief of her egomaniacal delusions. She tells us that “No one can and no one will take that (her “voice”) from me. My voice forever remains the most valuable asset I have.” She thinks so? A “voice” is a person’s most damaging attribute when all that comes out of it are lies—and unfortunately for Heard, most people believe that most everything that comes out of her mouth must be taken with a grain of salt. That is the reality she must deal with, and as long as she refuses to own-up not only to her abuse against Depp but all those people she has alienated throughout her life who also had to suffer her abuse, she is lost.
Heard also tells us that “It is important for me to say I never chose this. I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed.” We must remember that pathological liars and narcissists have no conception of truth as most people know it. She “chose” to defame Depp with actual malice without regard to truth; it certainly came as a surprise to her, as Camille Vasquez pointed out during the trial, that witnesses who had no skin in the game would come forward to refute her “truth.” She in the end destroyed herself.
Heard’s feelings of “abandonment” that were caused by her abusive behavior were in her mind transmuted into convincing herself that she was “abused,” and the fact we often heard her use terms of “violence” to describe her “feelings” in those audio clips made it impossible for any sensible person (including the jurors) to determine where her “reality” began or ended. The fact that Heard was on several medications for mental health issues underlined the point that she herself probably didn’t know either.
We can dismiss Heard’s complaints about being “vilified” on social media because she did that to herself. When people insist on telling falsehoods when the truth is plainly evident, then they have given-up any right to expect not to be vilified—or as on TikTok, brutally satirized. Heard claims about being “re-victimized” ring decidedly hollow—she got exactly what she deserved, and she has no right to expect anyone to forgive her lies past, present and apparently future as she tells us she will continue to do.
Heard also insisted on lying about the UK verdict—which was not “impartial,” far from it; she wasn’t on trial, The Sun was, and she was fortunate the judge (whose son worked for the paper) took her lies at face value, especially in relation to the “donations”—and casually dismissed Depp’s witnesses as being “biased.”
The UK trial has been pointed out to have had different standards of evidence than in the U.S.—where the claims of abuse were subject to actual proof of it and not merely determined by the prejudicial whims of one person. In the Virginia trial, the jurors and the world were able to see and hear what was true or not, and based on that made their decision.
We are told that we should take Heard's "feelings" more seriously than we seem to, but why should we? People see her as an unrepentant liar and abuser, and nothing she can say will change that—in fact her insistence on continuing the lies and denials only intensify and harden the negative reaction toward her. She put Depp through all the “hell” she now claims to have “suffered,” so she knows how it feels now, and we should take pity on her now?
It is even more sickening to know that she cynically hoped to “advance” her film career with telling these lies via the Washington Post op-ed; the Post, of course was only too happy to engage in promoting this MeToo shibboleth if it meant people had to fork out cash to read it. Naturally Heard insists that the negative reaction toward her has nothing to do with base actions such as this, but because she is a “woman.” Eye-roll time. But a woman is also a human being with human frailties—and Heard has more than most human beings, whether male or female.
And yet Heard claims that she has “emancipated” herself on her “own terms.” Good god, this woman is delusional. The reality is that Depp has won not only in the court of public opinion, but now in court as well. The jury verdict in Virginia stands, and Heard remains convicted of defamation with actual malice. Sure, she will still continue to treat people as if they are fools, but we know why she settled—she knew she was going to lose the appeal, and it simply was a complete waste of whatever money she had left to continue the “fight” that nearly everyone thought would be an injustice toward Depp if she didn’t lose.
Heard ran low on fools who will still believe her long ago. She’s coming back to America (we presume) but to what? Her “fame”—as is if such a thing ever existed for her—relied solely on her looks and her relationship to Depp. He is now free and clear of her, and why anyone would want to put her in a movie again with the likelihood that people will not see it simply because she is in it is beyond normal comprehension. I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
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