Amber Heard on divorcing Johnny Depp: ‘I felt our culture’s wrath for women who speak out’
- Actress was told she’d never work in Hollywood again. She changed her phone number weekly because of death threats, and could barely leave home
- Domestic abuse victims need more protection, she says, and hails the #MeToo movement and the election of more women to the US Congress
Actress Amber Heard, the ex-wife of Johnny Depp who accused the actor of beating her up, posted a column in The Washington Post this week lamenting the consequences she paid for speaking out and urging the United States Congress to reauthorise the Violence Against Women Act.
Two years ago, she wrote, she “became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out”.
She had to change her phone number weekly because of death threats. For months, she rarely left home, and when she did she was pursued by camera drones and photographers on foot, on motorcycles and in cars. Tabloids posted mean pictures of her, she recounted.
She was on trial in the court of public opinion, with little control over how people were judging her, she said.
