Courtney Love (L); Johnny Depp.Photo: Victor Boyko/Getty; John Phillips/Getty
Courtney Loveis apologizing for expressing her thoughts on the ongoingJohnny Depp-Amber Hearddefamation lawsuit, after a group of videos in which she appeared was “accidentally” posted online.
“I engaged in expressing thoughts online. The platform accidentally posted a story I didn’t want public (I’m sure it was not deliberate),” Love wrote in the caption next to a video in which she is seen walking her dog.
“Was it a genuine, expression of support for someone whose been a wondrous presence in our lives?” she later added, seemingly referencing Depp, 58, whom she said saved her from a drug overdose in the 90s and doted on her daughter Frances Bean in the first series of videos.
“Is it ANY OF MY F–KING BUSINESS? No.”
Love also wrote, “I certainly don’t always do the right thing,” going on to add, “I want to show neutral support for a friend. I dont want to bully. I’ve been bullied enough. I did not want to express my own bias / internalized mysoginy [sic].”
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“I want nothing to do with contributing more online bullying to someone enduring being bullied like noone ever has been online. Ever,” the musician later continued.
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“In my program of recovery, ‘when we were wrong, we promptly admitted it’ I was wrong,” the widow ofKurt Cobainadded in her Saturday mea culpa.
“The only important takeaway, of what was posted, is that I expressed that we should all stop having ‘fun with schadenfraude [sic]’ (look it up: ‘Delight in another’s down fall'🛑)& show sincere empathy for both parties,” Love concluded.
In the first series of videos shared over the weekend, Love said, “I don’t really wanna make judgments publicly. I just wanna tell you that Johnny gave me CPR in 1995 when I overdosed outsidethe Viper Room,” referencing the famed club in West Hollywood, California, that Depp once co-owned and whereRiver Phoenixcollapsed anddied of a drug overdosein October 1993.
“Johnny, when I was on crack and [daughter]Frances [Bean Cobain]was having to suffer through that with all these social workers, wrote her a four-page letter that she’s never showed me, on her 13th birthday,” Love continued.
The musician said Depp “sent limos” to Cobain’s school “where all the social workers were crawling around — again, unasked — for her and all her friends to go to bothPirates[of the Caribbeanmovies].”
“He did it a bunch of times. He gave her her own seat [at the premieres] with her name on it,” Love continued. “I’ve never seen one of thosePiratesmovies, but [Frances] loved them. You know, she said to me when she was 13, ‘Mama, he saved my life.’ And she said it again.”
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Love said near the end of the video posts that she “been the most-hated woman in America” and “the world” before, and has “a lot of empathy for what thatmust feel like for” Heard, 36.
“But if you use a movement for your own personal gain and you inhabit queer feminist intersectional spaces and you abuse that moment, then I hope justice gets served, whatever it is,” she added. “And I think we should have less schadenfreude and more empathy for all concerned.”
He and theAquaman 2actressmarried in 2015andsplit in May 2016, when Heard sought a domestic violence restraining order against him, accusing him of abusing her. Depp denied the claims, and the former couplesettled their divorce out of courtin August 2016.
Depp, who has said multiple times under oath that he has never struck Heard or any woman, has testified that his “goal is the truth” as he seeks to clear his name in the trial, which is being televised live via various outlets. WhenHeard took the stand, she told the jury, “I struggle to find the words to describe how painful this is. This is horrible for me to sit here for weeks and relive everything.”
Back in November 2020, Depplost his highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, thestar’s attempt to overturn the decision wasdenied.
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source: people.com
