I watched the whole trial. It was very sad, and there were so many cringe worthy moments, I felt icky watching the testimony. Amber had a really incompetent legal team. But what struck me deeply is, in my opinion, they were both abusive, and they both skirted around the truth during the trial (and in interviews). Depp was drinking heavily and doing drugs, habits he himself has said have plagued him throughout his adult life. I know what it's like to live with someone like that. It's not pretty. And he left a decent woman in order to be with someone who, initially, was also into "partying." Turns out, she's also a textbook narcissist. Just like our man Donald, as soon as someone stops kissing the ground she walks on, she turns on them. This came out during testimony by former friends and employees. It also became clear that rather than end an ugly relationship, they both became entangled in games of "gotcha" and payback. Narcissists feed on attention, even really ugly forms of it, so Amber stuck around for a while. When they split, she did what narcissists do, she attempted to publicly disgrace him. This was in the midst of the so-called "Me, too" movement. So what better way to smear the reputation of the man who rejected you than to claim domestic abuse. However, while I enjoy Depp as an actor, and I wish him well as a person, he is not without his own share of blame and ugly behavior in all this. And if you asked him face to face if my take on that relationship mess is accurate, I believe he'd be honest enough to say Yes. I think, unlike Amber Heard, he is at least self aware. But not an innocent victim.
