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Sunday 5 June 2016

Johnny and Dougie!

Dear Readers:

Image result for amber heard bruiseAs I have said countless times in the past, yes there is a great deal of sexual harassment, assault, innuendo, exploitation, intimidation and impropriety going on all around us ......., BUT there is also a lot of lying and false charges of sexual harassment, assault, innuendo, exploitation, intimidation and impropriety by women who will do anything to get back at some guy who they think "done them wrong!" (I guess what I'm saying is that this sort of thing is a convenient weapon in the modern "war of the sexes!")

Segue to the latest gossip about Johnny Depp, and his wife Amber Heard, whose on-again, off-again marriage looks like it's headed to the junk heap of Hollywood relationships and there's more than enough stuff to keep Tinseltown gossip columnists busy into the foreseeable future. (Amber's got a big bruise on her cheek folks, and we don't think it was caused by walking into a door ..., but ya never really know about these things now, do ya!!)

Anyway, one of John's friends is my all-time favourite comedian (If ya don't count Jim Jeffries) Doug Stanhope, who came charging to Mr. Depp's defence with an impassioned article, which immediately caused Amber to sue HIM as well!

Actor’s friend, comic Doug Stanhope, says that Heard was “threatening to lie about him publicly in any and every possible duplicitous way if he didn’t agree to her terms” (Update: Amber Heard’s attorney says the claim that Heard is blackmailing Johnny Depp is “unequivocally false.”)

It’s almost 4 a.m. and I can’t sleep. Not even dozing off.

Today, a friend of mine was pilloried in the press for domestic violence. Coupled with a picture of his wife with a bruise, he was murdered on social media.

I watched it happen and I didn’t say a fucking word.

Even though I knew it was all bullshit.
We’d watched it build like this since before they were married. We’d watched her manipulate and fuck with him for years. We didn’t say a word. To each other, yes, but never to him.

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.

Most of us have been on one or both sides of this coin. Choosing to be blinded, or removing the people who have clearer eyes that can guide you.

The fact that Hollywood, and the entertainment industry at large,  turns a blind eye to domestic violence.

But 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.

My girlfriend, Bingo, and I have known Johnny Depp for a few years now. We have watched Amber Heard fuck with him at his weakest — or watched him at his weakest from being fucked with — for the entire time we’ve known him.
And we didn’t say shit.

Because he’s Johnny Depp.

And we didn’t want to be thrown out of the circle for saying that The Emperor was being Stripped of His Clothes.

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.

But nobody said shit to his face.

Bingo and I were at Johnny’s house for most of that Saturday until just before the alleged assault. We assumed initially that his dour mood was because of his mother’s death the day before. 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. Blackmail is what I would imagine other people might put it, including the manner in which he is now being vilified.

Bingo and I together, and then separately, told him how much we were aware of this manipulative asshole, 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.

I told him the truth and I half-expected to be asked to leave. But I wasn’t seeing Johnny Depp. I saw a naked Emperor. And we told him to get dressed.

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.

He seemed dumbstruck that nobody had ever come clean about this and he thanked everyone for being honest.

He still pronounced his love for Amber but was presciently aware that she was going to pull off some kind of ruse to fuck him over.

You’d call him a paranoid if you didn’t know better.

But he knew better and he was right.

As he finally felt like he could sleep, we left him. From what we now read in the news, later that night the police were called to his house for a domestic dispute.

Finding no criminal act had occurred and no signs of physical abuse, the police left.

Everything Johnny had told us that she’d been threatening had actually come to be. 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. People are swarming with torches on social media.

I watched it all happen ahead of time and I watched it come to fruition today.

And I haven’t been able to sleep again because I didn’t say shit to defend him.

Why?

Because 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. A latter day Kato Kaelin. And now as the sun is coming up, I realized not saying anything to defend him is a far worse crime of ego; to leave a friend hanging so you don’t look like a suck-up.

I — and the “we” that were there — aren’t suck-ups or apologists. We were witnesses.

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’ll name-drop now. Johnny Depp is my friend.

But any one of my friends will tell you I always call them out on bullshit.

Abusing women is bullshit. Johnny doesn’t abuse anyone. And he told me that day ahead of time that she’d pull some kind of shit like this.

Johnny Depp got used, manipulated, set up and made to look like an asshole.

And he saw it coming, and didn’t, or couldn’t do anything to stop it.

He may never talk to me again for saying it but I’d never forgive myself for not coming to his defense out of fear or ego.

I stand up for my friends and I tell the fucking truth.
http://www.thewrap.com/johnny-depp-is-being-blackmailed-by-amber-heard-heres-how-i-know-guest-column/

(Jesus Christ I hope she doesn't come after me for re-printing this article!)

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Heard's lawsuit also gives more details about her alleged abuse, saying in one instance Depp "nearly suffocated her to the point where she feared for her life."
"His drug and alcohol abuse has increased dramatically in recent years, as has his violent behaviour," the documents said.

The suit claims Heard's lawyer asked The Wrap to remove the article from its website and print a retraction, which was refused. Read the column cited in the lawsuit here.

Johnny Depp Divorce(Amber Heard, seen here leaving Los Angeles Superior Court court on May 27, made further allegations against her husband in the defamation suit, saying his drug and alcohol abuse has increased. Richard Vogel/Associated Press)

"Defendants are engaged in a classic case of 'attacking the victim', in an effort to discredit Heard, destroy her good name and reputation and severely harm her hard-earned entertainment career, on top of the campaign of violence that Depp has inflicted upon her for years," the complaint reads.

Heard is suing for "maximum possible damages", although an amount is not specified, and according to the document, will donate the proceeds to a "battered women's shelter in Arizona."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/amber-heard-sues-comedian-1.3616668?cmp=rss

By the way, if you haven't heard of Doug Stanhope, this is some of his stuff! 



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