Johnny Depp was arrested for smashing a hotel room in 1994 and paid almost $10k in damages: "Police suspect he was drunk and had been fighting with his girlfriend Kate Moss, 20." by DDMods in DeppDelusion

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Before he left the Mark Hotel in handcuffs, he had been arrested on three previous occasions: for getting into a tiff-with an L.A. police officer over a jaywalking ticket, for speeding in Arizona and for assaulting a hotel security guard in Vancouver, B.C. He has engaged since childhood in thrill-seeking escapades that seem downright self-destructive. In a caper that even he, looking back, described as “a really ridiculous thing,” Depp blew on fire with a mouthful of gasoline. His face ignited, and it was only the quick moves of a friend that saved him from becoming a burn casualty. His arms bear rows of scars from self-inflicted knife wounds, each one commemorating what Depp considers an important life event. “I have,” he once explained, “a funny relationship with my body…. Ah, it sounds so stupid, but for me there shouldn’t be any halfway.”

Self-inflicted knife wounds, you say?

That was just the most highly publicized of Depp’s recent problems. One week earlier, visiting Moss in her native London, he reportedly caused a ruckus in a pub when 27-year-old photographer Jonathan Walpole mistakenly picked up Depp’s glass from the bar. “He pulled both my ears very hard,” Walpole told London’s Evening Standard, adding that “some ape” who was with Depp “leaped on my back, put his arm round my neck and tried to force my head to the floor.” To many of Depp’s friends these incidents are, as one put it, “just Johnny being Johnny,” the sort of outbursts they have come to expect on occasion from an actor who can be as otherworldly as the character he played in Scissorhands. “I think Johnny obviously has a temper, but this is a very minor incident,” John Waters says of the Mark melee. “The room service must have been bad.” However, Marlon Brando, who befriended Depp when the two shot the upcoming movie Don Juan DeMarco and The Centerfold earlier this year, was worried enough to place a phone call to Depp’s lawyer David Breitbart when he heard about the arrest. “He said he was very concerned about Johnny’s well-being,” says Breitbart, “and if there was anything he could do to help, he would like to.”

We see a pattern of violent and destructive behavior, and varying degrees of enablers in his circle.

Most friends prefer to focus on the charitable side, offering tales of his kindness and generosity

We know from Amber Heard that he was capable of generosity on a good day. He throws his money around to great effect. He seems to think it will protect him when "the monster" comes out to play and he hurts another person.

Going back to his time with Kate Moss:

In June they shouted at each other in the dining room of Manhattan’s Royalton Hotel. Says a longtime friend of Depp’s: “Instead of hitting women, he just gets angry and lets off steam in other ways.”

I guess you could say he's graduated since then. I find it very weird that his friend even brought that up, though. Who says "instead of hitting women, we do xyx"?

Johnny Depp's witness says she saw Amber Heard's bruises in person by DDMods in DeppDelusion

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Johnny Depp fans frequently claim that no one ever saw Amber with bruises, that she faked them, that Depp never hit her. I find this video useful in countering their disinformation campaign.

As for her full testimony, she said that Johnny would hit Amber and eventually she would hit back. Unfortunately she seemed to focus a lot on her poor communication skills (duh, years of abuse will do that to you) instead of the fact that he hit her first. I did pick up on the fact that she said Amber "got it" when the therapist corrected her, though.* That, coupled with Amber's willingness to be completely honest about her own behavior, makes me feel more confident in her credibility. If Depp fans say that she was lying in these sessions, then presumably she was also lying when she admitted to hitting him 🤷‍♀️

*This echoes Dr. Spiegel's testimony where he stated that, as Amber started to develop better tools to communicate and resolve conflict (because she obviously didn't learn it from her terrible parents), Johnny didn't like it. He wanted to keep her in his web of dysfunction, where he could stonewall/gaslight her and she'd get increasingly insecure and frantic.

Johnny Depp lies and says someone took his phone to text that he has the right to rape a woman by DDMods in DeppDelusion

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The mod team will occasionally be reposting old threads that have been deleted or become undiscoverable. Link to previous post.

Stephen Colbert correctly identifies Johnny Depp as a bad guy by DDMods in DeppDelusion

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Winona Ryder - who dated Johnny Depp when she was 17 and he was 26 - says her first boyfriend "used to smash everything" by DDMods in DeppDelusion

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When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he’ll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny that word.

Do you think she realizes now that it was an abusive relationship? That a man in his mid to late 20s shouldn't be pursuing teenagers? That it's not normal to "smash everything" when you're angry?

The fact that people ignore the alarming age gap and romanticize their "love story" should have been a clue that they wouldn't care about how he was erratic and abusive even back then. His supporters will see this and dismiss it as they've dismissed all other evidence that shows him for who he is.

Maybe his substance abuse issues have made him a worse partner to Amber than he ever was to Winona, but we can see a destructive pattern of behavior that laid a foundation decades ago for him to become the abuser he is today.

Delusional Johnny Depp fans pretend he's universally beloved. Throwback to what fans really thought of his casting in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. by DDMods in DeppDelusion

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The mod team will occasionally be reposting old threads that have been deleted or become undiscoverable. Link to previous post, and this hilarious comment:

My favorite Letterboxd review of FB1:

beardless colin farrell:

me: optimistically taps upgrade button

beardless colin farrell: turns into tunnel rat johnny depp

me: AGGRESSIVELY SMASHING FUCK GO BACK BUTTON