Amber Heard’s Ex Reveals Shocking Truth About What Really Happened Behind Closed Doors During Johnny Depp Trial
Amber Heard’s ex-girlfriend, Bianca Butti, is opening up about her support for the actress during her legal fight with Johnny Depp. In a new book called Hollywood Vampires: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine, Butti shares what it was like watching Heard go through such a tough and public battle.
The book, written by Kelly Loudenberg and Makiko Wholey, covers the rise and fall of Heard and Depp’s relationship and the courtroom drama that followed. It started out as a documentary but later turned into a book.
Butti, who is a cinematographer and dated Heard after she split from Depp, gave the authors behind-the-scenes video and personal stories about their time together.
Even though they had broken up by the time of the 2022 trial in Virginia, Butti stayed close with Heard and stood by her. In the book, she talks about how hard it was to watch Heard testify.
“It almost sounded like someone else was talking,” Butti said. “By the time you tell it a million times you remove yourself from emotional content. I believe all of it. Especially as someone who was her intimate partner. If I made a sudden move during an argument, she would recoil. It was clear to me that she was in a very violent relationship.”
Butti also described the way Heard and Depp treated each other, saying their relationship was intense and toxic. “She was trying to stand her own ground and he just wasn’t having it. He was blacked out and drinking, a lot of drug doing, alcohol, and that is always a recipe for disaster,” she said.
Heard and Depp first met while filming The Rum Diary in 2011 and got married in 2015. A year later, Heard filed for divorce and claimed Depp had abused her. Depp denied the claims.
After that, the legal fights began, first in the U.K., where Depp sued The Sun for calling him a “wife beater,” and later in the U.S., where he sued Heard over an op-ed she wrote about surviving abuse. The U.K. case didn’t go his way, but he won the Virginia case. Eventually, the two reached a settlement.
Butti remembered how emotionally shut down Heard was while waiting for the court decisions and trying to keep herself together. “She had nowhere to put everything. She didn’t know how to cry. She didn’t know how to freak out. She didn’t know how to break down. She just knew how to keep going,” she said. “She was completely detached… She was shut down.”
After the jury sided with Depp in 2022, Heard called the verdict “disappointing” and said it was a “setback” for women. Depp said the verdict gave him his life back.
At the time, Butti posted a message on Instagram backing her friend. “My support goes out to Amber Heard and all survivors of sexual, physical, psychological abuse. What is happening in the media, social and other, is just awful and inappropriate,” she wrote. “Amber is someone I am grateful to call a friend and no one who stands up to speak the truth should be treated like this.”
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