Johnny Depp calls himself a “Sucker” for having fallen in love with Amber Heard

Johnny Depp looking back on his relationship with ex-wife Amber heardAnd his subsequent Falls of defamation against herOver three years after a judgment was reached.

Talk to The Sunday Times For a rare interview, the actor, 62, recalled how previous relationships in his life formed his views on “love” and how it in turn affected his relationship with the actress, 39. (The couple Met 2011 and then marry 2015, but they Called it ends Just over a year later, before their divorce led to court battles during the years that followed.)

“So, what were my first business with what we call” love? “” Depp posed to the publication. “Clearly shock.”

“And what it means is, if you are a sucker that I am, sometimes you look at a person’s eye and see some sadness, a certain lonely thing and you feel you can help that person,” he continued.

“But no good deed becomes unpunished, because there are those who, when you try to love and help them, will begin to give you an understanding of what it Malaisen, that disorder was in their eyes. It manifests itself in other ways,” added depp. “And the interesting thing is that it’s just a record in my life I’ve chosen to explore.”

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When they were heard and depp shared in 2016, Aquaman The actress cited incompatible differences in a DivorceAnd she submitted a temporary restriction order Against her husband among accusations of home violence.

Depp and Heard reached $ 7 million Divorce settlement August, but in March 2019, Depp sued his ex-wife For defamation over a 2018-up-ed she imprisoned for Washington Post. In it, heard detailed discrimination, she said that she met in the wake of her accusations of domestic abuse against Depp to “ensure that women who come to talk about violence receive more support.”

In November 2020, Depp lost its highly published British damages Against British tabloid The sun to call him a “wife-beater.” The Court maintained the outlet’s claims as “essentially true”, and heard testified to back up statements. In March 2021 Turn the decision breached.

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Judicial procedures for Depp’s trial attempts then started over a year later in April 2022. Both he and heard made bombshell accusations of physical, emotional and mental abuses against each other.

After one Controversial, live-voted sex-week trialOne judgment was reached June 1st What was found heard responsible for all three bills of slander regarding her 2018-ed. She was ordered to pay $ 10.35 million in damages, and Depp would pay $ 2 million, since Heard won one of the three claims in her counter.

Both Depp and Heard made appeals But eventually agreed on a settlement in December, that Heard would pay Depp $ 1 million, which he had donated to several different charities.

Talk about his legal battles with Heard and how they played out in the public eye, Depp said The Sunday Times“Look, it had gone far enough. I knew I would have to semi-evise myself. Everyone said:” It will disappear! “But I can’t trust it.

“If I do not try to represent the truth, it will be like I have actually committed the documents I am accused of. And my children will have to live with it. Their children. Children I have met in hospital,” he continued and refers to daughter Lily-rose26 and son Grab23, as he shares with ex Vanessa Paradise.

“So the night before the trial in Virginia I didn’t feel nervous. If you don’t have to memorize lines, if you just speak the truth? Roll the dice,” added Dept and also told the publication that he knew “None of this would be easy, but I didn’t care. I thought,” I’ll fight until the bitter f —- end. “And if I stop pumping gas?

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The Jeanne du Barry Star also reflected on the fall that came from the trial, especially bound to those within his inner circle. “As strange as I am, some things can be trusted. And my loyalty is the last thing anyone can question,” Depp told The Sunday Times. “I was with an agent for 30 years, but she talked in court about how difficult I was. It’s the death of confetti, these false mother —— Who is lying to you, celebrating you, says all kinds of horror behind your back, but still keep the money-the confetti machine running-what do they want it?”

When he narrowed the store, he felt down to “three” specific individuals he said “made me dirty,” explained, “those people were at my children’s parties. Throw them in the air. And see, I understand people who could not stand up (for me), for the most scary for them was to make the right choice. I was before.#Metoo. I was like a crash testing dummy for #metoo. That was before Harvey Weinstein. “