Johnny Depp feels he was a “Crash test dummy for metoo,” his inner circle “made me dirty”

Johnny Depp speaks sincerely about how his career changed after his trial against Amber heardSays he was a “crash test dummy” for the Metoo movement.

In a new interview with The Sunday Timesthe 62-year-old actor spoke of Seizures accusations his ex-wife heard, 39, made against him After their divorce 2017. Depp claimed that some people he did not named in the interview, “made him dirty” by not standing up for him before Heard’s accusations.

“As strange as I am, some things can trust,” he told Britain’s outlet. “And my loyalty is the last thing anyone could question. I was with an agent for 30 years, but she spoke in court about how difficult I was. It is the death of confetti, these false modern —— Who is lying to you, celebrating you, says all kinds of horror behind your back, but still keep the money-the confetti machine goes-for what do they want?

“I’ll tell you what hurts,” Depp continued. “There are people, and I think of three that made me dirty. These people were on my children’s parties. Throw them into the air. And look, I understand people who couldn’t stand up (for me), because the most daunting for them was to make the right choice. I was pre-metoo. I was like a crash test dummy for Metoo. ”

“That was before Harvey Weinstein. And I swung it, took it all,” the actor explained and referred to the movement that began in 2017 when several women accused Weinstein of sex offenses (Weinstein was last found guilty of a count of a criminal sex team and not guilty for another bill) and talked about their experiences of sexual abuse or harassment in entertainment.

“I wanted from the hundreds of people I’ve met in that industry to see who played it safely,” he added. “Better go awake!”

Depp tuned heard in Virginia over a Washington Post She wrote about domestic abuse, even though she did not mention him by name in the article. The verdict came on June 1, 2022: DEPP won their claimsAnd Heard won one of her three counterclaims. The two later reached a settlement, and she paid him $ 1 million.

On one statement right after the verdictHeard, who now lives a quiet life in Spain, said she was “heart-broken that the mountain of evidence was still not enough to resist the disproportionate power, influence and turn of my ex-husband.” She also felt that the result “puts back the idea that violence against women should be taken seriously.”

Depp then said that “The jury gave me my life back.”

He added, “Speaking the truth was something I was guilty of my children and all those who have remained steady in their support for me. I feel in peace knowing that I have finally achieved it.”

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Somewhere else in his extensive conversation with The Sunday times, Depp talked about his so -called “comeback” in Hollywood in recent years.

“Honestly? I didn’t go anywhere,” he said, referring to the movies he made in recent years, including Minamata and Jeanne du BarryThe as well as advertising for Dior and his upcoming film Daydown. “If I actually had the chance to share, I would never come back.”