One in every of Johnny Depp’s closest pals believes Amber Heard is “a sociopathic present pony” who’s hell-bent on destroying the star.
Gina Deuters – who’s the spouse of Depp’s longtime enterprise accomplice and assistant Stephen Deuters – had a entrance row seat to the actor’s tempestuous 15-month marriage with Heard, and alleges that he’s the true sufferer amid their ongoing authorized battle.
In her solely interview since being pressured to step down from the witness stand, Deuters solely instructed Web page Six that she believes Heard thrives on drama.
“There was one factor Amber mentioned on the marriage ceremony. She form of leaned into me and mentioned, ‘Do you and Stephen ever combat?’ I responded, ‘We typically have an argument,’ and he or she was like, ’No, Gina, like actually combat?’ And it was form of unnerving. [I thought], ‘Do you get pleasure from it?’” recalled Deuters, who has recognized Depp for almost 20 years.
“I believe there is part of Amber that [believes] preventing is ardour. It means there’s sparks, fireworks [in the relationship]. [Amber] is somebody who’s all the time used to getting what she desires. She is kind of entitled and I believe she made huge calls for of their divorce.”
Echoing Depp’s allegations at trial, Deuters claimed, “When [Amber] was denied these calls for, I really feel she was like, ‘I’m not going to get what I need so I’m going to destroy you.’”
Deuters instructed us that her husband first referred to as Heard “a sociopathic present pony” after he unwittingly turned the mediator in Depp and Heard’s marriage in its ultimate troublesome days.
“My husband referred to as her a sociopathic present pony, and he actually doesn’t remorse it,” she defined. “Stephen, on the finish, was fairly actually the mediator … nobody else wished to cope with Amber, and Stephen can be the one individual she might speak to.”
Depp, 58, is at the moment in courtroom and suing Heard, 36, over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote, by which she referred to as herself a sufferer of sexual violence. Whereas the actress didn’t point out Depp by identify within the piece, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star claims it tarnished his repute and profession.
Deuters just lately took the stand in Depp’s protection however didn’t get the possibility to provide her full proof to the jury in Virginia as her testimony was struck from the document.
She was ordered to depart the courtroom on April 14 after Heard’s journalist pal Eve Barlow intervened and Deuters admitted to the decide that she had seen clips of the trial on-line.
Chatting with Web page Six, Deuters described Depp’s time with Heard as “much less of a relationship and extra of an Amber invasion.”
“Immediately she began transferring her pals into his properties,” she mentioned. “It was fairly surprising how she finally remoted him from his household and pals … it positively felt like we’d form of misplaced him.”
Deuters instructed us she initially discovered Heard to be “chilly” and was puzzled by her habits.
“After they first obtained collectively, I’d describe her as fairly a ‘Stepford Spouse.’ She would bake cookies and take his footwear off after work. It was all fairly odd,” she recalled.
“Realizing Amber was this assured feminist, it was unusual she was behaving fairly subservient, like a pleasant little housewife-type function. [But] that was all at first – that will change fairly rapidly.”
Again in 2015, Deuters and her husband helped prepare each weddings between Depp and Heard. The 2 tied the knot at Depp’s late mom Betty Sue’s dwelling in Los Angeles, adopted by a ceremony on his personal island within the Bahamas in 2015.
“[Amber was] completely controlling … the entire getting married factor was rushed,” Deuters alleged. “It simply occurred all so rapidly, to the purpose the place truthfully Johnny’s household weren’t notified and a few of them couldn’t get down there in time.”
Of the Bahamas occasion, Deuters mentioned it “very a lot felt” like a takeover.
“It was the Amber Heard social gathering versus their marriage ceremony. I bear in mind her father doing a speech and he form of motioned across the space [of the island], saying one thing like, ‘Look, honey, all that is yours now,’” she recalled. “My coronary heart sank somewhat bit … had been they extra enthusiastic about all of the wealth they married into, or was this about love?”
“While you see a buddy or a beloved one transfer ahead right into a relationship that you simply personally don’t suppose is wholesome for them, it’s troublesome as a result of you’ll be able to’t precisely cease it,” Deuters continued.
“It was fairly heartbreaking through the years seeing him deteriorate bodily and emotionally. Then on the very finish he was very upset on the breakdown of his marriage. He suffered vastly by way of it.”
Deuters insisted to Web page Six that she has by no means witnessed Depp act aggressively in the direction of a girl, saying, “I’ve been with him when he was consuming, doing medicine and smoking weed, and his demeanor has not turned nasty in any respect. I’ve by no means seen him lose his mood.”
Describing the actor as a “treasured buddy,” she continued, “By all means, their relationship was risky, however I simply know that Johnny wouldn’t hit a girl.
“I can sleep at night time figuring out I’m supporting my buddy. I completely really feel he has been a sufferer of home abuse and he deserves justice.”
In earlier testimony, Heard vividly described her alleged abuse at the hands of Depp. The actress sobbed as she described every little thing from Depp’s alleged threats to kill her to “cavity searches” and numerous sexual assault encounters.
Heard is predicted to take the stand once more on Monday for cross-examination. A spokesperson for the actress declined to remark.
In the meantime, Depp has no regrets concerning the trial, in line with Deuters.
“Sure, it’s like reopening previous wounds. However the combat to clear his identify is in the end for his kids, as painful and as ugly as it’s,” she defined. “He’s right here [in the UK] in the meanwhile, we noticed him … and I can already see a weight has been lifted from his shoulders having given his testimony.”
She added, “Now I see why he wished the cameras; so the general public can hear him and others converse instantly about their experiences. He has lastly felt his voice has been heard and which means so much to him.”
