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On the Outside Looking In: Amber Heard and Johnny Depp

Men are not 100% responsible for all the ills in the world.

Tessa Schlesinger
7 min readNov 3, 2022
Depp and Heard in court. Fair use

Amber Heard reminds me very much of a stepmother I once had. My late father married her twice. The second time, he ran for his life, because she tried to kill him. It wasn’t the first time. At one point, she poisoned both my late father and me. He finally realized she was a psychopath. He died within months after leaving the UK for South Africa. She lived happily every after on my late father’s widow’s pension. They weren’t divorced.

Amber Heard is a pathological liar. She uses rich men to get money. She also physically attacks men for whatever reason. Both my mother and my stepmother did that, so when you grow up with that kind of thing, you recognize the patterns of behavior in someone else. I also suspect that Heard uses sex and flattery to cement relationships with men.

So why do so many women insist that Johnny Depp is the abuser in the relationship? I think it’s because some women are in denial. In their hatred of all men, they cannot allow themselves to think that women can be at fault, and that the female of the species can be deadlier than the male.

Some will bring up the UK case. The UK case was based, almost entirely, on hearsay. The judge believed Amber. When the…

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