Remember, in the summer of 2020, Johnny Depp had attacked The Sun for defamation! And for good reason, the famous newspaper had described the actor as a “female drummer” in one of his articles, relying in particular on his relationship with his ex-wife Amber Heard.
During the trial, the tabloid had therefore defended itself by releasing old SMS written by the actor and addressed to his friend Paul Bettany. Text messages dating back to 2013 and where the two men exchanged humorously on the best way to get rid of Amber Heard!
“Let’s burn Amber!” Let’s drown it before we burn it !!! I will then fuck her charred corpse to make sure that she is really dead ”, had among others written Johnny Depp… Shocking messages that the ex-husband of Vanessa Paradis justified by specifying that it was simply black humor… And after several months of silence, Paul Bettany finally reacted in his turn to those morbid SMS!
“It was a strange moment. What was weird was that suddenly you have one of London’s most scabrous newspapers and their lawyers looking into your texts over the past ten years. Can you imagine what it feels like, honestly, to have a bunch of lawyers going through every one of your emails and texts over ten years? “, he explained. And to conclude: “ All I can tell you is that it was an unpleasant feeling. “
Lisa Ziane
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