The singer assured that the interpreter performed CPR on her when she suffered an overdose in 1995
Courtney Love expressed her support for Johnny Depp in the midst of Amber Heard’s trial: “He saved my life” (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
The singer and American actress Courtney Love, widow of musician Kurt Cobain, made a video expressing her support for actor Johnny Depp, who is in the middle of a media trial for defamation against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
A video, which was later deleted, shows the singer remembering the time the interpreter saved my life in 1995, as well as his daughter Frances’s connection to the actor.
“I don’t want to publicly judge anyone, but I want to tell you that Johnny saved my life in 1995, when I overdosed outside The Viper Room”, the singer began, remembering that Depp performed CPR on her until the ambulance arrived.
This place was originally co-owned by Depp and was the main place where celebrities would party in the 90s. It was there, on October 31, 1993, that the young actor River Phoenix from an overdose.
During that time, Love was dealing with the untimely death of Cobain in 1994, whom she married in 1992 and had his daughter Frances Bean, now 29.
“Johnny, when I was addicted to crack and Frances was having to suffer all that with social workers, he wrote her a four-page letter that she never showed me,” said the artist, noting that she “didn’t really know” Depp at the time.
For his daughter’s 13th birthday, Depp arranged to “send limousines to pick up my daughter and her friends to see ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’” “He did it a bunch of times. He gave her her own seat at the premieres with her name,” she recalled.
Love said she had “never seen one of those pirate movies, but Frances loved them. ”, assuring that his daughter had also told him that Depp saved his life.
Frances Bean Cobain and Courtney Love attend the Los Angeles Premiere of “Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck” on HBO on April 21, 2015 in Hollywood, California (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
Then the artist talks about Amber Heard, assuring that she empathizes with her situation.
“I have been the most hated woman in the United States and in the world, even before TikTok existed,” she began, noting that “I have a lot of empathy for what Amber must feel. I mean, can you imagine how that must feel?”
“I hope justice is served, whatever the outcome may be,” he said.
Jealous and controlling
Ellen Barkin appears on a monitor as taped testimony from 2019 is played during Johnny Depp’s libel trial against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, in Fairfax, Virginia on May 19, 2022 (Reuters )
Johnny Depp was jealous, controlling and frequently drunk, said his ex-girlfriend and actress Ellen Barkin, in prerecorded testimony last Thursday in the actor’s defamation lawsuit trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Barkin, 68, said he had a brief “< b>sexual relationship” with the actor in the 1990s.
The actress recounted that during the several months they were together, Depp “was drunk the most of the time”. “He’s a jealous, controlling man: ‘Where are you going? Who are you going with? What did you do last night ? ’”, She testified in court.
“One time he got really mad because I had a scratch on my back and insisted it was because I had sex with someone other than him,” she said.
Barkin recounted an incident during the filming of the 1998 film “Panic and Madness in Las Vegas” in which Depp “threw a bottle of wine across the hotel room … I don’t know why he threw the bottle ”, although he indicated that he may have had an argument with friends or with his assistant.
The protagonist of “Pirates of the Caribbean” sued his ex-wife for 50 million damages for implying that he was a beater (Reuters)
Depp is suing Heard for alleged defamation over a 2018 opinion piece the actress wrote for The Washington Post, in which she does not name him but describes herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” The actor has requested USD 50 million in damages. Heard, for her part, filed a counterclaim, seeking $100 million in damages.
In November 2020, Depp lost his defamation lawsuit. in the UK against the British tabloid The Sun for calling him a “wife beater”. The court confirmed the outlet’s claims as “substantially true” and Heard testified to support her accusations. In March 2021, her attempt to overturn the ruling was overturned.
The judge in the case, Penney Azcarate, scheduled closing arguments for May 27, after which will remain in the hands of the seven members of the jury.