For what it’s worth, despite accusations of cheating or even “dropping” his ex Vanessa Paradis for a younger woman, all parties maintain that Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis split by 2012 (including Paradis), with Johnny not starting up a relationship with his former costar Heard until June that year. As rocky as their relationship was, Heard finally secured a marriage from him in 2015, and nearly a month after was the finger-severing incident in Australia after Johnny’s lawyers requested she sign a postnup. This is all attested to not only by multiple witness statements, but also by medical documentation.
Rather than being a “he said, she said“ scenario, fraught with misinformation and contradicting accounts, a cursory look at the actual evidence as opposed to the faulty evidence that was originally put forth makes it easy to see exactly which side the abuse fell on, and which side is lying. There were two very inflammatory incidents, with a lesser third one that we will pay attention to also. The first being the Australia incident one month into their marriage when Johnny approached Amber about securing a post-nuptial agreement. The second, somewhat minor incident, was in December of that year before the final blow-up in May 2016.
Aside from the fact that Johnny lost a finger early on, the most significant episode was May 2016, as it included false statements to law-enforcement officials, as well as the courts. The result was Amber Heard’s accusations being dismissed with prejudice. She can no longer file domestic abuse charges against Johnny Depp in the state of California. That is the level to which the officials investigating did not find cause to even charge Depp with violence.
January 2014
Heard officially starts wearing engagement ring number three, as reports have come in that they are now engaged. It’s extremely significant that she dismissed the first two, only to go for the biggest, gaudiest third one that finally made her happy. Already she felt comfortable making demands.
February 2015
They are officially wed in LA, with an intimate ceremony in the Bahamas. Here Depp’s friend witnessed Heard’s bestie and cohort Io Tillet Wright strike their mutual friend Raquel (Rocky) Pennington. Io gave himself the nickname iSlapRocky, and the bridal party seemed to think the incident was no big deal. Significant here because of the toxic attitude about violence. *Warning bells*
March 2015
It was during this time that Depp and Heard engaged in an altercation wherein Depp’s finger was severed, and Amber Heard claims that she was beaten over the course of three days. She claims that he stripped off her nightgown, put his hands around her throat, threw her up against a ping-pong table, groped her breast, dragged her bodily through glass, cutting up her arms, torso and legs. She made conflicting claims that there was a drug-induced binge over the course of three days and that “cocaine was lying everywhere.“ She says it once in the audio, only to return with empty bags that she claims were previously full of cocaine that he had been “hiding from her.” Inconsistent with her earlier statement that it was everywhere, and further proof that she cannot even keep her own story straight.
It is on this initial incident that we will probably spend most of our time, as everything that she has claimed has been refuted by her own audio recordings, as well as other witness testimony, and there is a wealth of info to go through. More significantly, paparazzi photos also coming to play here, as they actually refute her claims. In fact, they support Jerry Judge’s statement in the audio that any injury she had were superficial and likely self-inflicted. All Depp’s evidence, as submitted to court, does indicate that that he did not sever his own finger, but instead lied to cover for his abuser and keep her out of trouble. You hear Heard in the audio saying that she threw bottles, and asking him stupidly “does it hurt?”
The problem with Amber‘s statements: first and foremost, it is not that Johnny Depp didn’t have the capability to do what she claimed he did. By Judge's admission Depp was drinking at the time of the attack, and aside from the shock of his injuries, sounds drunk on audio. He stated in his own deposition that he poured himself a vodka and while at the bar, Amber threw a bottle and launched it at his head. It flew past his head and hit the wall behind. He also stated that the second bottle she threw smashed his hand between the bar and the glass and separated the tip of his right middle finger.
It isn’t however consistent to believe that he did it himself, as it is an injury to his dominant hand and he would have had to grab something with his non-dominant hand – – an action that is not instinctual when someone is out of it on drugs or alcohol.
As stated above, Amber Heard admitted that she threw bottles at him as well in the audio she surreptitiously recorded of everyone in the aftermath of the attack. What is also significant about that audio is that no one – – not security, not even the doctor and nurse present – – mentions anything about her being injured by cut glass, or bruises that would be consistent with abuse over the course of three days. The doctor and nurse especially, as first responders, would have addressed this, and yet they did not. In fact the doctor prescribed 50 mg of Seroquel, a potent antipsychotic. He joked that he would be alright with 100 mg, but that she needed more than her usual 25 mg. In the course of the sporadic conversations on audio commentary Judge mentions that there were a few cuts to Amber’s arm, but that they looked “self-inflicted“ because of what he had seen previously.
This is in fact true and consistent with paparazzi photographs of her in days after the alleged incident. What she is sporting in the photos are consistent with what cutters will do to themselves. The cuts are shallow, parallel, and all roughly the same length as if done by her hand. They are also on her non-dominant arm, her left arm, which is consistent with her doing it herself being right handed. Later in April, at the Tribeca festival in NYC, she is seen sporting newer, fresher marks that look as though they are scratches. None of the above are consistent with the varying depths that would come with being drug through broken glass. And none of them appear all over her body from being drug naked. Deeper cuts would take longer to heal than a mere month. The few small scratches are certainly not
covering her body, but instead are localized in one area.
These superficial and likely contrived wounds also speaks to and supports the multiple reports of her creating and mocking up her own injuries in order to claim abuse. See the later incident in May 2016.
The following photos are from April as well, after the fight, according to the Daily Mail. Johnny’s finger is still bandaged and Amber once again, barearmed and fresh faced, walking around with no swelling or bruising, and certainly no cuts or fingermark bruises from strangling.
Johnny Depp on the other hand actually has wounds consistent with his statements of abuse. Not only the bandaged severed finger, but a mark on his cheek from her putting out a cigarette on his face. He has said this, his security detail has said this, and he’s even pictured in the hospital with it (see below), as well as sporting the same mark weeks later in the same pictures (above, courtesy of JustJared) with her where she is completely unblemished. it is a perfect testament to how long it takes worse injuries to heal. Had she been abused over the course of three days, she would be in the same or worse shape than he.
The above photo not only depicts his severed finger, taken in the Australian hospital, but the cigarette burn as well, which has not noticeably healed at all by the time the above paparazzi pictures were taken later in April. The fact that Amber Heard had NO wounds whatsoever other than scratches in April at the Tribeca Film Festival further attest to the fact that she lies about having ever been injured. The photos below are from April 18 at the festival, with no injuries whatsoever that would indicate she had been beaten for three days only weeks prior--choked, stripped and drug through glass, beaten about the face and body. Nothing, except a few scratches she could have done herself.
May 2015
Amber Heard contacts her PA Kate James to try falsifying documents to get her Yorkies Pistol and Boo smuggled through immigration and into Australia. This illustrates not only Heard’s lack of regard for authority or rules, the safety of others, but also a willingness to lie to government agencies even on a global scale. The evidence here is not only Kate James’s testimony, but the phone records of Amber texting and emailing her to do such a thing in the first place.
TBC...
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