I came across an amusing video laying out Amber Heard’s rise and fall a while back. What fascinates me is the confidence to go to trial when she knew full well she was guilty. The sad part is that she had a settlement and could have walked away with millions of dollars, but she got greedy and launched a baseless defamation campaign against Johnny Depp, to whom she basically owed her success.
I will never understand this kind of behavior. I think such screwed up people should be punished with extra criminal charges to set a precedent for all those sick assholes who try to pull off such things on people they owe their life or career to. This is not just a normal betrayal or a money-grabbing scheme; those are for normal relationships. Imagine you are a thief and you go and rob some stranger. That is a normal criminal case. Now imagine you rob someone who made your success, wealth, and popularity possible and improved your life. And then imagine that you don’t just empty their house; you kidnap their kid and burn the house down. Then, after getting caught, imagine you accuse them of kidnapping and robbery and assault, claiming they were drug addicts and horrible people who deserved it and if you wouldn’t have done so, they would have done the same to you. This is another level of criminality, and animals like this should be treated differently by a functioning society.
It is also a big question for me: do these people just have a fucked-up personality, misplaced self-confidence, and narcissism, or are they suffering from mental conditions such as psychosis? How can someone like Amber, who got her career boost by being married to Johnny, hit him and take a dump on his bed, and then run forward and claim he mistreated her and try to ruin his career? How can this “person”, after the first undeserved settlement deal, still not let go, hope for another better settlement, and proactively start a fight she knows she would lose if it goes to trial?
I can understand the gamble. The hope that maybe the victim is too busy, concerned, or poor to go to trial and would just give in and let it go. The question is: is she living in another reality, or is she just too greedy to understand her chances, her guilt, and the level of commitment from the other side? Why is she overestimating her intelligence and resources, and even then, why is she doing this to a person who had a positive impact on her life? Why did her family raise her like that? Where is her dignity, gratefulness and grace? Johnny, thankfully, stopped at nothing to put her in her place, even if it cost him a lot of money. And how sweet is it when it all comes together and they don’t get away with it? The look on her face was a delight to watch, when she not only lost the case, but also her credibility, wealth, and popularity.
And what a relief it is for Johnny Depp, who took it for so long. He was subjected to character assassination, bullied, insulted and smeared. He had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to see it through, to finally experience the moment of victory and vindication. I am glad he pushed hard and saw it to the end, setting an example for other opportunistic thieves and slanderers.
I wish we saw more of these stories, and fewer cunts getting away with it because of luck or circumstances.
Who knows, maybe I have my own story to tell some day.
