First things first: four plays into the Jets' season and Aaron Rodgers tears his Achilles tendon and is out for the season and probably the next, if he so chooses to continue. A total freak injury, although both Tom Brady and Peyton Manning themselves missed an entire season due to a catastrophic injury. But this is different due to Rodgers’ age, and it will be a tough decision going forward. I’m not “happy” about this at all, since I thought it would be interesting to compare the way his and Jordan Love’s seasons' progressed.
Now for the real “news.” Amazingly enough, the mainstream media can’t ignore the information about Amber Heard in the new biography of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. In the book, we are told that people close to Musk expressed nothing but contempt for Heard, calling her “toxic,” a dealer in “chaos,” and even “evil.” Do you really think they would be putting this out for the record if they didn't know this was Elon's views as well? The bio does mention that Musk had a tendency toward "outbursts," and he is probably the kind who feels animated when confronted with the endlessly illogical, pointless arguments of someone like Heard--who herself was quoted as saying that if someone plays with “fire,” then they will get “burned." That “fire” was, of course, herself.
Isaacson noted how Heard initiated the brief affair, pretending to be a “geek” despite dropping out of high school (after the suspicious car accident that killed a friend and her driving privileges suspended for four years), and supposedly not knowing how to edit that TMZ video. We are told how for a few months Heard played “nice” to get her hooks on Musk, and once she accomplished her mission it was the same old story: she and her friends mooched off of him, she got him to pay part of that “donation” in her name, but once Musk became less “generous” with his attentions and money, Heard became that psychopath that we all know and hate. Interestingly, there is apparently no interest by the author about Musk’s “relationship” with Heard's baby born from a surrogate mother.
And then there was that documentary on Vimeo, Surviving Amber Heard, which for $12.99 to “own” may seem like a “lot” to some people—especially those not interested in the truth. Well, I forked-up the money; was it worth it? I mean what the hell else is out there if you want the “unvarnished” truth all in one place? First of all, most of the two-part documentary is the audio and testimony heard in court, so it is nothing “new”—with one notable exception, that being the devastating interview with actor and former Heard friend Steven Crowley, describing her drug use and relationship with Tasya van Ree before she even got her claws on Depp.
The documentary, narrated by a woman presumably to make it more credible to doubters, makes a few trenchant observations: while their therapist noted that Heard would speak in a “jackhammer” fashion that Depp had trouble keeping-up with, it was observed that on other occasions—especially when we hear Heard’s evil, demon-possessed “laugh”—she pokes fun at his quieter, more deliberate way of speaking.
The therapist also noted how “Amber used
to keep Johnny in fights. I know she led on more than one occasion and started
it to keep him with her because abandonment and having him leave was her worst nightmare.
The second one is what she reported to me, which is if he was going to leave her
to deescalate from the fight, she would strike him to keep him there.” How many times did that happen in reality?
Why did Heard have this “need” to keep Depp “close” enough to make his life hell with her abusive insecurities? When they met, Heard was just a bit player in B-films, not well-known by the public. Then she was cast in the film The Rum Diary with Depp, and there is no doubt that she played him from the start, enjoying being attached to his fame, money and extravagant lifestyle.
She eventually got him to marry her, and from there things went from bad to way, way worse with the greedy, self-centered Heard whose idea of a “relationship” was constant conflict and gaslighting her victim into feeling he's always the "problem"—and not just with Depp, but with former partner van Ree, whose relationship with Heard suggested that she had “practice” turning her domiciles into war zones before she even met Depp.
Depp was more than generous in allowing Heard’s free-loader friends—such as Raquel Pennington and iO Tillett Wright—paying not a dime for room and board; if he hoped that they would keep Heard "company" and keep her away from him, he was wrong: they just became her co-conspirators.
During depositions when questioned about their job descriptions, Pennington and Wright were clearly being evasive and unwilling to describe exactly what they did to earn their own bread during their time at the Eastern Columbia Building. Heard’s sister Whitney also stayed at the penthouse living the care-free hobo life, her only "function" was to support her sister, which included being the occasional punching bag; Depp apparently felt “sorry” for her because he recognized in her abusive relationship with her sister his own childhood experiences.
When all of this came under “threat”—not just with Depp’s stated desire that Heard’s friends and family find their own places to live, largely brought on by their alienation of his own friends and family (Heard described his friends as “old guys playing guitars”), but when Depp finally told her that he was finished with her too. She wasn’t going to change; she didn’t mind living in chaos as long as she was the puppet-master, in fact she thrived on it. But when she realized he was serious this time, she had to twist the narrative to make him look like the “villain.”
Now, let’s take a look at a transcript (created from the SRT file) of that interview with Steven Crowley, who worked with Heard on the film Never Back Down, which somewhat surprisingly went by largely unnoticed at the time by even Depp's social media supporters:
And she goes, you party? And I'm like, oh yeah, I party. She whips out some Coca-Colas and starts doing it and she's like, would you like some? I go, oh, I didn't know that's what party meant. I thought you meant do like, we'd party. I hang out, let's go out, let's go drink. Um, it, it was either Ketamine or GHB she'd put it in our vodka. (So you never, you never drank from the bottle in the fridge, huh?) Dude, she's a professional. It is wild. And that was my first experience with anything. And for sure, true story, I don't think I'd seen weed in person at this point. I'm 21 years old. I really don't think I had, so like the first thing I'm exposed to is cocaine, ecstasy and GHB, laced vodka or ketamine.
On the film set, the production crew started doing drug tests of
Amber, because they were suspicious of her sobriety on set. She was upset that production asked her representatives that they wanted to start doing testing because they thought something was wrong. We were talking and she's like, she's getting all pissed. And she's like, you know, they don't, they don't test Lindsay, referring to Lohan at the time, who I don't think was like completely off the rails yet. And there was always a weird, she'd bring up Lindsay Lohan a lot, I guess that’s who she lost to supposedly, is what she said. She lost Mean Girls. It, it's hard to know what was true, uh, with her when it came to stories. But what I saw is like, what I saw.
Then there was the “visit” to Heard’s drug dealer’s house:
You know, she's doing bombs all night. I don't know. Four in the morning I head home. It's Sunday now. Around 11:00 AM I get a phone call from her and she goes, Steven, come, come over. We're gonna go play pool. We go to the pool hall and two other actors are with us. So Tilky and Amber and then Evan, they had not slept and Amber for sure. So they had been up all night playing pool, drinking. She's doing, blowing in the bathroom.
This big guy comes and I'm like, dude, who is this guy? Like, he goes, oh, that's Amber's drug dealer. And I'm like, oh, he's been fairly friendly. He goes, alright, we're going, uh, we're going to my place. And he grabs Amber and he walks her to his car. We drive to his house. So I'm like, we're driving. I'm like, Sean, what are we doing? He's like, dude, we can't, we can't leave her with that guy. We got, we have to film by the way, on Monday.
Once at the dealer’s house:
He disappears. He goes to his bedroom. We're all out like hanging out by the pool table. We're playing pool, okay at this point. And it's awkward. Amber's like, shit tanked. Like out of her mind up for two days. She's like swaying. And Sean's like, dude, we can't leave. So more or less that's what's going on. He comes out of his bedroom. He tells us to like move from the pool table. He puts down like this tray gallon Ziploc bag filled with cocaine, Opens it and just like mic drops it all on there. Now I had seen cocaine for the first time because of Amber. 'cause she'd always ask me to do it with her. Come on, just do it. Just do it. And that was the first time I was like, this, this can't be real life.
He would've probably have let us leave, but he wouldn't let her leave. But he was like, you're not leaving. And he goes, and she's not leaving at like midnight at this point. Like she's out of it. Like, she's basically like, kind of like fallen asleep. She'd been up for two days and we have to be on set. Not good. Not good. That was crazy, so when you see her on the stand lying about how she, she only did coke like once when she was 18, when she explicitly told me I would rather be addicted to cocaine than cigarettes. As she's doing a bump, I'm like, baby, baby doll.
Then Crowley describes Heard’s relationship with van Ree, the victim of her assault at Sea-Tac Airport in 2009:
The first time I had been to a strip club was with Amber. She's like, oh, my favorite stripper's working tonight. I was like, what do you mean your favorite stripper? She's like, oh, I come here a lot. And I was like, do you? So we go in, they sit us right down in the middle, um, and then her favorite stripper comes out and she's dancing on her.
Heard did not care who knew about this, except van Ree:
Uh, she said Tasya was sober and against drugs. To the point when Tasya came to visit on set, Amber told me and anybody else who like hung out with her, Hey, Tasya's coming. Do not mention anything about drugs, partying, alcohol, she cannot know. So if she's on set, don't tell a story that we're at the strip club, you know? And I was like, okay. Yeah, not a problem. Tasya found out about something that Amber and the stripper had been hooking up and maybe some other people. I get a text, I get a call, text or call, I don't remember. And Amber's like, Hey, come over. And I'm like, all right.
So I go over and the apartment is trashed, like, looked like a robbery was through there. And I'm like, dude, what happened? She goes, uh, Tasya found out about the stripper. And I was like, okay, but what happened? She goes, we got into a huge fight and described some of the scenes that she's described with Johnny Depp. It’s like, glasses all over the floor, but there's no pictures like that apartment. I was like, oh my God, if I'm the owner, I'm gonna be pissed.
The “picture” we see here is that regardless of the stories we heard about Depp’s drug use, which was severe enough that he needed to “detox” (instead of just "napping") without the “help” of someone like Heard, who apparently enjoyed seeing Depp in agony while she withheld his medicine, we don't really need any more evidence to underline the fact that Heard is a liar and not the kind of person anyone would want as a domestic “partner.”
I’m not feeling sorry for van Ree, by the way. By keeping quiet about Heard’s abusive behavior—in fact denying it—only allowed Heard to abuse others after her. I talked about this dynamic in a post in 2016; the CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey in 2013, which showed a close to equal number of heterosexual men claiming to be victims of domestic violence as women, also for the first time included same-sex couples. It showed that domestic violence was more prevalent in non-heterosexual relationships than of the hetero variety; 44 percent of lesbians (compared to 26 percent of gay men) claimed to be victims of intimate partner violence at some point in their relationships.
Why are these incidents not reported to law enforcement? This from the Wiki page on the subject of same-sex DV: “Fear of reinforcing negative stereotypes has led some community members, activists, and victims to deny the extent of violence among lesbians.” Someone named Beth Leventhal of some LGBQT support website told us that “Abuse is not about violence; it’s about control. You can be just as controlling of someone if you are small — as if you’re large. It’s about using violence or any other means of gaining and maintaining control.” I noted at the time that it was curious that DV activists did not apply this same dynamic to heterosexual relationships, as this was clearly the dynamic at work in Depp and Heard’s relationship.
The second part of the documentary lacks a similar “smoking gun” reveal as the Crowley interview, but does go into detail about what made Heard’s testimony in court not only not credible and completely at odds with her sneering 2016 deposition, but often ridiculous. After the “anecdote” about Depp wearing a mesh T-shirt and her dog stepping on a bee that garnered such ridicule on TikToc:
While telling the convoluted stories, Amber appears to add random details to make her narrative believable. One of them is when she tries to paint Johnny as an animal abuser, again, appearing to ascribe her own actions to Johnny (a video is shown of Heard laughing as she holds her little dog half-way out the passenger window of a moving car). The constant staring at the jury came off as if she was trying to see if the jury was buying the convoluted stories and the absurdity of filler details that she sounds like she's making up as she goes.
Then there is Heard’s free-loader friends joking about Depp’s missing finger-tip, and discussions about Heard’s need for the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel, used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Interestingly, we hear Heard claiming that it doesn’t help to “calm” her—it just slows down her heart rate. We can take that as meaning that in her mind it only helped her to continue her “fights” without causing heart health issues.
Well, that’s enough of that. Will it change any minds that don't wish to be changed? We still hear desperate gender activists grasping at straws on the Internet; for example, as "evidence" one person points to the alleged kicking incident on the plane. The seating arrangement on the plane shows that this would have been extremely difficult to do. Depp testified that he “playfully” aimed his foot in her direction as she was leaving the area after another round of incomprehensible argument.
Heard’s "truth" was that his bodyguard wrote a text saying that Depp was “sorry” for kicking her; but he testified in court that the only reason he wrote that was to placate Heard and her version of “reality,” otherwise she would just continue the “fight” until she felt that she was the “winner."
Meanwhile, the "forgotten" or dismissed include those who threw in their entire stake betting on Heard; they include the long abandoned Eve Barlow, who
is now “begging” not to be “canceled” or be accused of being a “racist,” and for
someone to please give her a job. Of course Heard is not hurting for money despite having no apparent source of income that either she or any of the shill media wants to talk about; that is a question that Isaacson apparently didn't want to ask either.
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