Some of the most active commenters aren’t so much determined fans of Johnny Depp as anti-fans of Amber Heard. One could blame “the Deppford Wives” for all these online smears, but that’s not exactly right. “So if those things are threatened, you either have to admit that you’re sort of a bad person for liking those things or you have to convince yourself that everyone else is wrong.” “We hang so much of our own identity on these things that we love,” she said. For Millennials in particular, she told me, fans’ sense of their own morality is deeply entwined with fandom. Rebecca sees a twisted logic in this hatred. “Literally amber heard is the plague,” wrote another. “Makes me sick listening to Amber Heard,” one wrote. On Twitter, I was personally surprised to see that even many of the Harry Styles fans I follow are, for whatever reason, adamantly anti-Heard. On Tumblr, Depp supporters continue to circulate the debunked claim that Heard plagiarized part of her opening statement from Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. On TikTok, couples have been acting out violent moments as described in Heard’s testimony, in order to highlight their alleged absurdity. Across the web, Heard’s supposed lies have been turned into all manner of memes, and even, by one cosmetics company, a piece of marketing material. The pro-Depp, anti-Heard stance is now a dominant trend on social media. Rebecca’s new Twitter account has not many more than 500 followers, which means she is far, far outnumbered by the other side. (Snopes has addressed several other rumors regarding the trial, but not that one.) She also wrote to Snopes, the fact-checking site, asking it to address the grotesque conspiracy theory that Heard murdered her own mother in 2020 to prevent her from testifying in support of Depp in the U.K. When these supporters circulated images of Heard having gruesome face makeup applied, for example, they claimed that the pictures showed a plot to frame Depp. But she’s been positively horrified by the behavior of Depp’s other fans, who have spent the past several years trying to discredit Heard as a “gold digger” and a “monster.” (I agreed to identify Rebecca by only her first name because she was concerned about harassment from this community.) In April, when fans’ efforts picked up momentum, Rebecca started a Twitter account called with a plan to document and counter the ridiculous claims that #DeppfordWives, as she and others call them, have made about Heard. Rebecca felt betrayed by Depp when Heard came forward with her story, and has since renounced her fandom. Heard also made abuse allegations when she filed for divorce from Depp in early 2016, and was granted a restraining order against him. In short, Depp has taken Heard to court for defamation over a 2018 essay she published in The Washington Post that identified her as a victim of domestic abuse and sexual violence. The case is complicated, and the testimony is rife with sordid, disturbing details. That face is everywhere right now, on account of Depp’s ongoing and highly public lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard. “Also it’s not like it’s his smug little face,” she told me.
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If someone asks about it, maybe she’ll go into the full story, rather than pretending she never liked Depp.
Though Rebecca, at age 36, is emphatically no longer a Depp fan, she says she keeps the script on her wall as a conversation starter. Sign up for it here.Ī shadow box above Rebecca’s dining-room table, hanging there since 2006, displays an autographed copy of the Pirates of the Caribbean script-signed by Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Johnny Depp. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday.
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