New Johnny Depp Texts About Kicking Amber Heard Uncovered 1 Year After Trial
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Coinciding with one of the most prominent documentaries about the trial, the reveal of assistant Stephen Deuter’s texts to Amber Heard and Johnny Depp shocked those who kept a close eye.
Director of Depp v. Heard Emma Cooper talked about how she didn’t want to interview both Amber Heard and Johnny Depp for the documentary. “Really, my intention,” she told Variety, “Was always to try and make it about the conversation around the trial. I wanted to get away from any he-said-she-said from within the trial, and I just really wanted to talk about us and the way we communicate, and the way that we look at events that don’t really have anything to do with us. That is actually what the series is about — but I can’t help but look at some of the things that are being said about me, without people having seen the series, and it’s interesting that people are drawing many conclusions, but that very much was not my intention.”
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She talked about how the international fame of this case impacted the outcome. “In an ideal world, women not being treated the same in public would stop very soon. I’m not naive about that. I see it around me,” she says. “But I do think that Johnny Depp is so famous — he’s a megastar. His fans, they think they’re watching the pirate [on the stand], and they absolutely love him. And he’s got like 25 years [in show business] on Amber. So, it’s a very unusual case. Wasn’t it fascinating just to see how people are deeply in love with the man and the character? It’s the power of Hollywood, really, if anything else.”
Amber Heard was married to Johnny Depp from 2015 to 2017. Following their divorce, The Stand actress wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post in 2018 about her experiences with domestic abuse. Although she did not mention a name in the article, the public speculated that she was referring to her ex-husband. Depp sued Heard in 2019 for defamation, claiming that the op-ed article ruined his career and took away his acting opportunities, as well as his long-standing role in Pirates of the Caribbean. Their trial began on April 8, 2022, in Fairfax, VA.
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On June 1, 2023, the LA Times put out an article declaring the winning of Depp’s lawsuit. Depp had sued her for $50 million, and Heard countersued for double. The judge awarded Depp $10 million for compensatory damages plus an additional $5 million for damages in the trial. Yet, they were immediately reduced to $350,000. Heard was given $2 million in compensatory damages based on the accusation that “she and her friends created a hoax that included roughing up her apartment to look worse for police,” which was an accusation from Depp’s prior attorney Adam Waldman after the article about assault came out.
In a final statement, Heard said: “The disappointment I feel today is beyond words. I’m heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband. … It is a setback. It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.”
So what did Stephen Deuter text? Here’s what we know.
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Stephen Deuter’s texts to Amber Heard
In unsealed documents uncovered by The Daily Beast, Johnny Depp’s assistant at the time Stephen Deuters texted Amber Heard about his client kicking her.
“If someone was truly honest with him about how bad it really was, he would be appalled,” Deuter’s reportedly texted Amber Heard. “I’m sad he does not have a better way to really know the severity of his actions yesterday. Unfortunately for me, I remember them in full, in full detail, everything that happened. He was appalled, when I told him he kicked you, he cried.”
“Once again, I find myself in a place of shame and regret. Of course I am sorry…I will never do it again…My illness somehow crept up and grabbed me…I feel so bad for letting you down,” Depp reportedly wrote to Heard according to the court documents.
In some messages that Heard kept, Depp apologized and called himself a “f***ing savage” and a “lunatic.” Depp’s firm Brown Rudnick reportedly could not find the texts in Depp’s iCloud and where they could have been deleted. Ultimately, the law firm determined they were “missing” for reasons unknown. These texts regarding the “kicking” incident were presented in the U.K. trial but not deemed admissible in the Virginia defamation trial.
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