Johnny Depp
interesting- i thought she was full of herself and i was thinking it could be she set him up- the eye looks rubbed not hit
no excuse if this is true but it seems to me Johnnys been on quite a bender past year or two after what seemed like many years of sobriety. Hope he gets some help.
I am not defending him, but I don't think this alone will end his career. He may be in a download spiral which might, though...
the root cause might (meaning dies or can't work) if he doesn't get help but I don't think an incident like this would end his career. He can come out rosey if he admits to an addiction and gets help
If drug abuse didn't kill off Robert Downey Jr's career, there's no reason why Depp couldn't rise above all this professionally. But if he has really hit his (wife? Girlfriend? What?) then that is quite despicable. He is a very good actor, but so very odd.
Being a drunk is one thing, being a woman beater is another.
Women beaters and child abusers can have great careers. Just ask Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Sean Penn, David O. Russell, Dre and Chris Brown.
Allegedly.
not defending but it's odd to me that a person would become a woman beater at 50+ yrs old. Never a mention of this before. That's not a typical pattern which makes me less likely to believe the story. She always seemed like a miserable, gold digging person to me but who really knows?!?
He threw a cell phone at her, is Heard's allegation. She does not allege that he hit her. Police made a site visit the same day as the phone throwing incident. Depp's p.r. people claim that the police report makes no mention of Heard being injured in any way. Can we not do this?
Correction on 6/8/16: got it wrong above. Officers did respond to the residence that day but did not file a police report, did not observe evidence of a crime having been committed.
not do what exactly? Speculate on Hollywood gossip? You are free to step out.
I'd say if the situation was throwing something at someone, we all might be guilty. I know I surely have. I consider that a very far cry from hitting someone.
Just as a aside, this week I suffered though the first half of Depps' recent epic, MORTDECAI. It was the most G-d-awful thing. Bad in every bloody way.
conandrob240 said:
not do what exactly? Speculate on Hollywood gossip? You are free to step out.
I'd say if the situation was throwing something at someone, we all might be guilty. I know I surely have. I consider that a very far cry from hitting someone.
Eh, violence is violence. A baseball weighs about 5 oz and can ruin you if it's going fast enough. An iPhone 6+ weighs 6 oz.
Johnny Depp ain't Bob Feller, but I'd guess the average man his age could hit 50mph on the gun. It could cause some damage, no question.
That's if he did it of course.
I think flinging a phone in someone's direction is very different from raising your fists to hit.
And it doesn't sound like he even did this anyway. It sounds like a manipulative woman trying to get her hands on a lot of $ and destroy a mans life. Like I said, you don't all of a sudden at 50+ years old become a man that abuses women and there is no evidence of a pattern here. His former girlfriends/wives are quick to defend.
conandrob240 said:
I think flinging a phone in someone's direction is very different from raising your fists to hit.
And it doesn't sound like he even did this anyway. It sounds like a manipulative woman trying to get her hands on a lot of $ and destroy a mans life. Like I said, you don't all of a sudden at 50+ years old become a man that abuses women and there is no evidence of a pattern here. His former girlfriends/wives are quick to defend.
I can't comment on what he did or didn't do- but I would respectfully say that throwing something with force enough to do injury to someone's face is assault, and the law certainly classifies it that way. The charge would be no different between a thrown iPhone that did injury than a punch that did the same. Unacceptable unless in self defense.
His exes are coming forward to say "he's not that guy." "He never even shouted at me in 12 years." Glad to hear this, if true.
And with all due respect, throwing a phone at someone is exactly the same as hitting them. Unacceptable under any circumstances.
From the little I have read, the whole thing looks like a mess, going back to when these two started dating while she was much younger and bisexual and he was still married, and then at least one broken engagement, and then a marriage without a prenup, moving on to huge fights with the Australian government about pets, and finally reports of excessive partying, drunkenness and abuse and filing for divorce after 15 months, supposedly because she wanted to be at the bedside of his dying mother against the wishes of his children. And that's just what I scanned in a few People magazines.
Based on what I read, he will give her a big check, around $20 million, and she will go away. Unless they both want more dramatic publicity, in which case they will make up and do the whole thing over again in a short time. Or they somehow work it out. Never say never, but not looking too good. I'm so glad not to be in a celebrity marriage going down the drain. Reasons to be cheerful.
I'll step in quickly to say that when the news broke here, two things quickly (and sadly) became evident:
*no-one was going to pay any serious attention to anything released in mass media about any of it
*satirists and comedians would try to make a fortune. Within 10 mins there official gambling odds for Barnaby Joyce getting custody of the dogs, so supervised visits in safety could be conducted.
It's very very sad when you've been caught out doing something wrong, that's relatively quickly fixed, and relatively minor in your world (fairly major in terms of bio-security, but hey) and your response to it is to endlessly lampoon a politician for his personality and physical attributes.
The_Soulful_Mr_T said:
Just as a aside, this week I suffered though the first half of Depps' recent epic, MORTDECAI. It was the most G-d-awful thing. Bad in every bloody way.
I don't normally agree with you, but here you're exactly right. Crap movie.
I am a huge Johnny Depp fan. Part of me doesn't want to believe it for that reason, but part also remembers how he flipped out and trashed a hotel room over some to do with Winona Ryder. No, trashing a hotel room isn't the same as hitting someone, and it was decades ago, but it also shows a tendency towards impulse control and inappropriate expression of anger/rage. So while I don't want it to be true, I also won't say that it can't be true.
so, those of you saying throwing something is the same as hitting- in anger, you have never thrown anything? C'mon. Maybe not right at someone with intent to hurt but angry tossing something that may have wound up hitting someone. Not the same at all.
And I think the man is getting screwed over by this woman. I don't even believe the phone toss happened. nor do the police who came out and determined no evidence of assault or wrongdoing, right?
Generally I do think it would be unusual for someone to suddenly become an abuser at age 50 but there could be other circumstances and substances that could push one over the edge. Never a good enough reason to throw a cell phone at someone's head, however, if in fact that is true.
Not to excuse any (alleged) violent behavior: Depp's mom, whom he was very close to, died less than two weeks ago.
http://www.etonline.com/news/189599_johnny_depp_mother_betty_sue_palmer_dead/
conandrob, throwing any object at another person is considered dangerous by any mental health professional I have ever spoken with. My understanding is that the risk to hurting the face is too dangerous. Not to mention the extra force that comes with something sailing through the air. Or, probably the panic of seeing something coming toward you....just saying.
yet another in a seemingly endless line of talentless hacks foisted upon the American public by Hollywood. Ths guy has the acting range of Nicholas Cage on ritalin.
I didn't say it wasn't dangerous or poor behavior. I said getting mad and throwing something is a far cry from punching someone.
Aside from this Depp conversation, throwing objects and punching are abusive, as are verbal threats. You could potentially be arrested for any one of these.
Depp's best work, IMO, was his ice sculpture craft in Edward Scissorhands (1990). 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64IwbhFYuUM
I love Edward Scissorhands. As a teen, back when it was allowed, I say through that movie three times in a row in the theater I loved it so much.
I knew I didn't like him. I just wasn't sure why, until now.
http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/05/27/amber-heard-domestic-violence-johnny-depp-restraining-order/