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Yeah, the thing with the donation money is that she didn't donate the full amount she was supposed to, then lied multiple times [even under oath] about having already done it (not "in the process" of doing it, but having already done it). Then she argued on the stand about what the definition of "donate" is, claiming that "pledging to donate" is the same thing as having already done so.

Also, of the money she actually had already donated, a good chunk of it wasn't actually hers. She had other people cover her and then sat on the rest.

emblem boy posted...

I'll have to find some other articles to read, but I guess these things weren't as clear cut as this story is making it out to be?

To try and parse each point...

Photos: A lot of her photos were taken to be staged, and the metadata on the photos had been tampered with (either by Amber herself or her team) so their authenticity couldn't be verified. She also claimed there wasn't editing/photoshop done on pictures that were clearly edited. She said she had a "ton" more evidence, but didn't provide any of it, which seemed suspicious, since you'd think she'd want to bring out the big guns if she actually had anything 100% incriminating. They provided photos of damage around one of their houses that Johnny had allegedly caused, but it didn't line up with bodycam footage taken from the officers that had gone there, and made it look like Amber and her friends staged it all after the fact.

Meanwhile, the only concrete pictorial evidence she provided of Johnny was stuff like him sleeping after allegedly blacking out drunk -- no evidence of abuse or anything, just him sleeping.

Communications: Yeah, a lot of Depp's texts are kinda graphic, and he has a drug/alcohol addiction, but that's the worst I can say about it. He once vented to a friend about wanting to burn and rape Amber after what she put him through, and I don't defend that kinda talk, but it's not something he ever seemed to act on, and for the most part a lot of his testimonies claim he actually mellows out while on drugs, not gets aggressive. A lot of this is just he-says-she-says or hearsay.

It does paint Depp in a bad light, though, but it also doesn't sound any different from what I'd imagine any 60yo rockstar-type celebrity with a dirty mouth to say to his friends via text. At this point, it felt more like Heard's team was just trying to discredit Johnny's character since they had no real evidence on him.

Witnesses: Some of Heard's witnesses say they saw some bruising, but I don't think any of them said they actually saw Johnny hit her - as did all of Johnny's witnesses. This made it look like Amber staged the bruises with makeup and whatnot. Esp when they brought up footage of her on a talkshow the night after she claimed Johnny attacked her and left her face a mess, and she looked perfectly fine on the show. Amber's sister mentions Johnny trying to push her down the stairs once, but her story didn't match up with other testimonies of the same event from other people who were there, and they actually brought in one of Johnny's exes who had allegedly been pushed down the stairs by him while dating to confirm that that never happened and that Johnny always treated her respectfully, which kinda burst a hole in the narrative Amber was trying to write.

From Johnny's side, we have bodyguards of his saying they saw Amber throw stuff at Johnny, and a man who owns a vacation spot they went to as a couple discrediting Amber's claims that Johnny was violent there and trashed the room they were in, saying Johnny acted timid around Amber and only one small light fixture had been knocked off their wall -- something that he claims wasn't that rare of a thing anyway.

Tapes: Almost all the tapes have Amber yelling at Johnny and Johnny trying to de-escalate the situation, saying multiple times he didn't want things to get violent and that they needed space so she could settle down. Amber's emotional state in these scenes seem to stem from Johnny repeatedly trying to distance himself from her and not combat their relationship issues whenever she gets worked up, but they ultimately just show that Johnny is more or less a mellow man who doesn't resort to violence -- instead opting to leave volatile situations.

Video: The only tape I can think of, and that showed him acting aggressively, was when Amber secretly recorded him slamming cabinets and, upon discovering she was recording him, trying to wrest the camera away from her. According to TMZ, this video had been edited by Amber, though. And I think this was the week his mother died, iirc, so he was pretty upset in general.

Overall, all the evidence just pointed to Depp being a druggie who has some issues, but not an abuser.