Just some quick thoughts.
Some domestic violence victims are loath to report the violence. Especially if it's been going on for some time. (If he
really hit you/abused you/threatened you, why didn't you just leave him? What did YOU do to make him hit you?) ( He was so sorry! He cried. He was so stressed out. He'd been drinking. He promised it would never, ever happen again. I love him. I wanted to try and make it work. The kids...)
The victim, usually a female have little/no means to support themselves and the kid(s).
Being Depp's girlfriend/wife if she says he was violent/abusive his marketability will be negatively impacted=can't make spousal or child support. It will be all over the news and the kid(s) will be negatively impacted.
Maybe she is afraid she won't be believed. After all, he's Johnny Depp. We all know him and love him.
(This has been on the airwaves all of 15 minutes and people are already talking smack about her.)
Just stuff like that.
I don't know jack about it so I'll shut up and sit down.
Have a great holiday weekend!
Hey, Lepp!
Beg pardon. You used some words that sound ... judgemental? Inferring? Do you already have her being some horrid, lying, gold-digger?
Peace.
Yeah. Sorta. Kinda. But I know that I don't know the story. That's why I try to use words like IF.
It's never been completely believable that a beautiful lesbian half his age would have a single cultural reference in common with Johnny Depp outside his bedroom and his wallet. If she were at least straight, I might have bought it. I don't mind an age difference, exactly. I'm older than my Tall Guy. But with that extra factor thrown in, their relationship just never made sense to me.
I'm not blaming the victim. I'm saying outright that I'm not convinced that she
is a victim. Not a single one of his exes has ever said that he hit them. Not that I remember, anyway. I know, it only takes once. IF it happened the way she says it happened, without any mitigating factors from her whatsoever, then she truly has my deepest sympathies. But I'm not willing to believe her at her word when she's got so much to gain.
Money? I doubt that these accusations are going to hurt his bank account. I doubt that it would have hurt her financially to make these accusations public earlier. At least
before the divorce. Not after. It's the timing of it that's so wonky to me. In the space of a couple of weeks, he goes from being this wonderful guy to a monster that assaults and terrorizes her... but she only says so publicly
after filing for divorce, and
after refusing to file a police report.
To not hurt the kids? She did reportedly become close to Lily Rose, so that theory would hold water. If Heard didn't turn around within days and go begging court for a restraining order. I could understand some delay, even mere days, if he presented some ongoing threat, but he's out of the country promoting his film. And Heard has plenty of money with which she could vacate the premises during his absence. He bought her a ranch for her horses in Tennessee, Kentucky, wherever. A different state. She could go there and change the locks until the divorce is settled if she were so afraid of him. Heard is not some battered housewife with nowhere to go and no way to get there. She's got the world at her feet and his money to spend on it. She's lingering in their shared marital home by choice.
I don't presume to demand that what she does should make sense to me. I'm just saying that it doesn't.
I don't like her. It's no secret. I've not cared for her since long before she took up with Johnny, so that's not it. I just don't. She comes across to me as entitled, one of those beautiful people that expects the world to be handed to them on a silver platter because they're beautiful... and it usually is. A bit full of herself, like she can just do (or say) anything she wants and get away with it. I don't care for that quality in a person.
I don't automatically disbelieve her either, though. I don't think she's lying just because I don't like her. It just doesn't add up. The fact that she refused to file a police report (or charges) a week before she filed divorce papers, which must have already been in draft when the police got phoned in. She already knew she was leaving him. So there was nothing to lose. The fact that there's no trace of a bruise on her un-made-up face a week later. It just seems to me like this abuse tidbit, true or not, is something she's saving up as ammunition in a divorce war.
My sniffer tells me this isn't about abuse. It's about money.
