Since his defamation trial, many have wondered about what Winona Ryder’s response to Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s domestic violence case has been and what she’s said about his relationship with her.
Depp and Ryder dated from 1989 to 1993. Their relationship was so serious that Depp even tattooed “Winona Forever” on his right arm. He changed the tattoo to “Wino Forever” after their split. Depp and Ryder’s relationship came almost 20 years before his marriage to Heard. Depp and Heard met in 2009 while filming their 2011 movie, The Rum Diary. They started dating in 2012 after his split from Vanessa Paradis, whom he shares two children with: daughter Lily-Rose and son Jack. Depp and Heard married in 2015. After 15 months of marriage, Heard filed for divorce in 2016. She obtained a temporary restraining order against Depp, claiming that he abused her while under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Depp denied the accusations, and a $7 million settlement was reached out of court in August 2016. Heard pledged to donate the money to the ACLU and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. “Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love. Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm,” the two said in a joint statement at the time.
In 2018, Heard wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post about her experience with domestic abuse. While she didn’t mention Depp by name, many...
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