Johnny Depp got used, manipulated, set up and made to look like an a–hole. And he told me that day ahead of time that she’d pull some kind of s- like this. Johnny Depp is my friend.Īlso Read: Johnny Depp's Wife Amber Heard Files for Divorceīut any one of my friends will tell you I always call them out on bulls. I didn’t jump into the fray because I was weak it was because I didn’t want to look like a name-dropper. I - and the “we” that were there - aren’t suck-ups or apologists. And now as the sun is coming up, I realized not saying s- to defend him is a far worse crime of ego to leave a friend hanging so you don’t look like a suck-up. And I haven’t been able to sleep again because I didn’t say s- to defend him.īecause I felt like in defending him I would just come across as a sycophant trying to attach myself to a sensationalized story in order to further my career. I watched it all happen ahead of time and I watched it come to fruition today. People are swarming with torches on social media.Īlso Read: Johnny Depp Would Like to Stress How Short His Marriage to Amber Heard Was It blew up in the news, raced through the Internet like a plague and blew up on Twitter like it was the McMartin child abuse scandal. Finding no criminal act had occurred and no signs of physical abuse, the police left.Įverything Johnny had told us that she’d been threatening had actually come to be. From what we now read in the news, later that night the police were called to his house for a domestic dispute. You’d call him a paranoid if you didn’t know better.Īs he finally felt like he could sleep, we left him. He still pronounced his love for Amber but was presciently aware that she was going to pull off some kind of ruse to f- him over. He seemed dumbstruck that nobody had ever come clean about this and he thanked everyone for being honest.Īlso Read: Johnny Depp's Wife Amber Heard Granted Domestic Violence Restraining Order Other people came in and out during the afternoon, all verifying that we’d been cowardly, saying things only behind his back for so long. I told him the truth and I half-expected to be asked to leave. But I wasn’t seeing Johnny Depp. Blackmail is what I would imagine other people might put it, including the manner in which he is now being vilified.Īlso Read: Johnny Depp's Lawyer Says Amber Heard Is Claiming Abuse to Score 'Premature' Paydayīingo and I together, and then separately, told him how much we were aware of this manipulative a–hole, how his closest circle had all agreed on this since the day we met and that we all feared that telling him outright might alienate us all. But he opened up in the most vulnerable of ways that it was not only his mother, but that Amber was now going to leave him, threatening to lie about him publicly in any and every possible duplicitous way if he didn’t agree to her terms. We assumed initially that his dour mood was because of his mother’s death the day before. It isn’t my place to name people who agreed with us but I couldn’t name one person closely associated with him that didn’t feel the same.īingo and I were at Johnny’s house for most of that Saturday until just before the alleged assault. We have watched Amber Heard f- with him at his weakest - or watched him at his weakest from being f-ed with - for the entire time we’ve known him.Īnd we didn’t want to be thrown out of the circle for saying that The Emperor was being Stripped of His Clothes.Īlso Read: Johnny Depp's Daughter Lily-Rose Mounts Instagram Defense of Dad My girlfriend, Bingo, and I have known Johnny Depp for a few years now. The fact that Hollywood and the entertainment industry at large - f-, society as a whole - turns a blind eye to domestic violence is abhorrent.Īlso Read: Johnny Depp's Ex Vanessa Paradis Defends Actor From 'Outrageous' Domestic Abuse Allegations (Report)īut the tides have turned in such a way that the mere allegation that such a crime has occurred leaves the person accused as guilty without due process. Choosing to be blinded, or removing the people who have clearer eyes that can guide you. Most of us have been on one or both sides of this coin. When your friend is in an awful, abusive relationship - man or woman - and you risk weighing in that their counterpart is a demon, you know the odds are they will jump right back into the fire and then dump you from their life for being honest. We’d watched her manipulate and f- with him for years. We didn’t say a word. We’d watched it build like this since before they were married. I watched it happen and I didn’t say a f-ing word.Īlso Read: Kirk Douglas, 'Spartacus' Star and Legend of Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 103 Coupled with a picture of his wife with a bruise, he was murdered on social media. Not even dozing off. Today, a friend of mine was pilloried in the press for domestic violence. (Update: Amber Heard’s attorney says the claim that Heard is blackmailing Johnny Depp is “unequivocally false.”)