The new trial between actor Johnny Depp and actress Amber Heard provokes comments in networks more typical of a championship, with comparisons that are not appropriate and background that is overlooked. There are points to keep in mind. First, the case is in the United States and its laws are not ours. And, what is decisive, is that the trial is only for defamation, for an article where she commented on suffering gender violence.
The statements of the first witnesses speak of a toxic relationship with mutual aggression. What does exist for sure is a previous sentence, already firm, where a British judge determined that Depp assaulted 12 times of the 14 cases that she exposed in court, one of them very serious where he was held hostage for three days. We also know, by now, some of the phrases pronounced and acknowledged by Depp such as him acting like a “savage & rdquor ;, apart from “bitch & rdquor ;, “whore & rdquor; or “I will have sex with her burned corpse to make sure she is dead.”
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For now, we have a psychologist on Depp’s side. An independent analysis would reveal key issues, because a couple’s conflict is not the same as a situation of gender violence, one is not the same instrumental aggression (with a purpose) that a reactive aggression (defensive), because not all victims react the same. The psychologist on behalf of Deep says that Heard suffers a borderline personality disorder (BPD) syndrome. Many of these disorders develop in childhood, in settings of abuse and trauma. I ask psychologists about it and they tell me that the consequences of gender violence, in some cases, can be confused in consultation with the clinical symptoms of a BPD and that, if they have it, they are more likely to fall into these relationships.
pity is that we do not have an independent forensic and psychosocial report, as in other cases that we know of in Spain. And this, here, would be fundamental so as not to derive the opinions to mere impulses or bar counter conversations, which are still days of trial.