Johnny Depp, Lori Anne Allison, and Amber Heard. Shutterstock (3)
Talking out. Johnny Depp’s notoriously non-public first spouse, Lori Anne Allison, has made her place clear in terms of her ex-husband’s battle towards Amber Heard.
The make-up artist, 65 — who was married to the Pirates of the Caribbean star from 1983 to 1985 — spoke extensively about her response to Depp, 59, and Heard’s 2022 defamation lawsuit on an episode of “Popcorned Planet” that was live-streamed on Tuesday, April 11.
Noting that her ex-husband “could be very non-public, which is why I don’t do interviews,” Allison revealed that she was “terrified” for Depp all through final yr’s defamation trial, saying that she “in all probability broke down a number of instances” watching her ex testify in court docket. “It simply broke my coronary heart that anyone may do this to him.”
The Nightmare on Elm Avenue star sued Heard, 36, in 2019 after she revealed an op-ed within the Washington Put up naming herself as a sufferer of home violence. Although she didn’t point out her ex-husband’s identify, Depp — who was married to the Aquaman star from 2015 to 2017 — filed a lawsuit towards the actress for defamation.
After a prolonged battle in court docket, throughout which each Heard and Depp testified and claimed the opposite was the abuser, in June 2022, a jury ordered the Justice League actress to pay her ex $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in putative damages. Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages.
“I had met her earlier than, I’d been to events at his home. She appeared very nice and he or she was beautiful, and what’s to not love?” Allison described her preliminary ideas of Heard. “However because the time glided by and I’d hear issues about her – she who shall not be named – he didn’t appear too comfortable on a regular basis. I didn’t see him lots so I can’t actually say.”
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Regardless of not claiming to know the intimacies of her ex-husband’s romance with Heard, Allison was clear that she was no fan of the actress.
“I’m no angel — I’ve achieved my share of sh—tty issues to individuals — however what she did was completely horrific,” the sweetness guru mentioned on Tuesday. “And if there have been issues I may do to her that have been authorized I’d do them! I’d.”
Although each Depp and Heard initially tried to enchantment the decision, the exes settled in December 2022. “I defended my fact and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed,” Heard wrote by way of social media after the settlement. “The vilification I’ve confronted on social media is an amplified model of the methods by which girls are [re-victimized] once they come ahead. Now I lastly have a chance to emancipate myself from one thing I tried to go away over six years in the past and on phrases I can conform to. I’ve made no admission. This isn’t an act of concession. There aren’t any restrictions or gags with respect to my voice shifting ahead.”
Depp, for his half, donated $1 million of his win to charities.
“We’re happy to formally shut the door on this painful chapter for Mr. Depp, who made clear all through this course of that his precedence was about bringing the reality to mild,” his attorneys Benjamin Chew and Camille Vazquez acknowledged on the time. “The jury’s unanimous determination and the ensuing judgement in Mr. Depp’s favor towards Ms. Heard stay absolutely in place.”
Along with his marriages to Allison and Heard, the Sweeney Todd star was additionally in a longterm relationship with ex Vanessa Paradis, with whom he shares daughter Lily-Rose Depp, 23, and son Jack Depp.
