Why the Verdict Concerns Me

WARNING: I'm very sensitive about this topic. I can imagine most won't care to hear my long history of being relentlessly exposed to DV and IPV, both as a victim of mental, emotional, verbal, physical, and sexual abuse and a witness to it.

I was born into a family that fit the definition of a narcissistic nest, and I have seen the evil and malice that is presented by people who have these traits. I've been a victim since childhood and through nearly every relationship dynamic type there is. I've seen that, yes, men can be abused but more often than not this kind of media circus with extensive backlash, and the result it will undoubtedly have on both victims and writers who expose abuse on a publishing platform is going to be catastrophic.

It's beyond reprehensible and while I could easily speak from a position of authority from my own experience, I could never imagine having the audacity to build a false narrative simply to maliciously ruin anyone's life, and steal pertinent details of actual abuse cases so as to orchestrate such a diabolical scheme. It is the sort of thing you find in controversial suspense novels, and yet here a woman has completely undone everything advocates, victims, and support systems have been working so tirelessly for against emotional labor and aggressive sexist establishments.

Misogyny is real, and yes, Johnny was abused, and Amber's shameful exhibition of the lengths wickedness will go to has both set us back and exonerated; it's made for a bittersweet set of emotions for me, and I am truly concerned about how this will work for op-eds in my industry moving forward and covering victim's abuse cases.

I was on Johnny's side, but I have to lament my fear in reality and writing; I am terrified of what Amber's actions have caused for real victims who write about their true experiences and were PROTECTED by specific laws in order to SPEAK out and not be SILENCED or further victimized and now, I hate to think what could happen to any woman who actually is abused and steps forward to say ME TOO; Amber Heard, you hijacked a real movement to lie, capitalize, vilify and GAIN for your own self and in the end, your actions HAVE definitely done what your statement ON IG says; set us back at least 50 years, and the reason why is because you LIED.

You actually LIED for more than half a decade, and then lied on top of lying, and then hired and coerced others to assist you with lying, so you could try to PROFIT off of REAL awareness that ACTUAL survivors were trying to bring to light.

You have absolutely caused major societal damages, and while Johnny Depp was the primary victim of your games and psychological scheming, you have succeeded in further victimizing every single person who has ever been a victim of DV (domestic violence) or IPV (intimate partner violence.)

You ought to be ASHAMED.

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