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From workhouse connect in AJ Benzer fame, He'd like to be walked on a

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leash and play really dirty, kinky
sex games. He's the guy put the

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cock in the Peacock Network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody AJ Benzi

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here with fame? Is it?
Bitch? This is Saturday. It's April

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twenty third, twenty twenty two,
and I'm doing a show on the weekend

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because frankly, when I got sick
on Friday, I felt bad. I

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felt bad that I didn't go there
with two shows to you guys. And

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I don't know what's going on.
I hate to say this, but call

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me a conspiracy theorist whatever you want. But ever since I got the vaccination

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and the booster, I feel like
I've gone through different ailments with my stomach.

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I don't know what. I don't
know what's going on, but I've

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never been this sick as well.
Let's say I'm sick as often I've been

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sick lately. It bothers me,
and it really bothers me when it coincide

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with not being able to give you
guys a show. I apologize. It's

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Saturday. There's some landscapers out behind
the fucking hotel. They're also on top

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of the roof putting. I guess
a new roof on. It's one of

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those crazy weekends. But by the
grace of God, here I go.

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I want to give you a show
because I feel like I owe you one,

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and we'll be back on schedule Monday, doing the typical five shows a

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week, etc. But listen,
let me wait until this goddamn landscape or

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leaves because, believe it or not, it's illegal to have a gas powered

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leaf blower on your back in Los
Angeles, but no one cares about the

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law here, motherfucker. Hold on
Jesus Christ. Sorry, I can't take

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that. It's absolutely illegal to have
these gas powered, gas powered leaf blowers

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on your back. But that's all
you see in Los Angeles. You know

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every time I go out, you
know I have pretty much the shaved head.

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I have a little hair coming back
now. But you'd be shocked when

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I come back. I take a
towel, I put water on my head,

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and I wipe my head with a
towel and it comes back dirty.

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That's how much shit is being blown
around the air. Look at here he

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is again, this fucking idiot.
I gotta talk to him. This is

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ridiculous. I gotta say you something. Hold on, hold on, are

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we fucking done yet? Are you
done? Are you done yet? This

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is not even legal, a gas
powered fucking law. It's not even llegal.

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Bro, No, it's not legal. You can't have gas powered on

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your fucking back. It's not legal. And I'll put the fucking blowing.

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Man, I think you want to
make it show him do fuck me?

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Sorry, that's real life shit.
Man. He was sorry with his goddamn

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straw hat. But right is right? Any Look, I wanted to talk

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to you today. You could tell
I'm in a bed and I'm in a

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bad mood. But I'm in a
good mood. But I gotta tell you

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I feel bad that I just shelled
it the guy. I always feel bad

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after our yellow people. I gotta
go back and give him five bucks.

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This is the way I get ready
fire aim school of speaking to people.

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I'm guilty of that. I'll take
care of him. Don't worry about it.

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Um. I want to talk to
you about the Johnny Depp trial.

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This is what this whole show is
going to be about. I said some

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things a couple of days ago about
it. I felt a certain way.

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And now as we're you know,
in this thing for a week, it's

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become apparent to me that there are
things that are being broadcast and there are

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people saying certain things about the man
on trial that simply aren't true. I

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was a journalist during the O.
J. Simpson trial. I've never seen

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anything like this before or since.
But this Amber versus Johnny trial is getting

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so crazy. Obviously, nobody died, all right, so you know,

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mentioning that it's close to the O. J. Simpson trial seems trivial,

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But it has all the odd glamor
and all the for lack of a better

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word, juiciness that attracts people to
watch. And I gotta tell you,

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I've never gotten so many emails and
texts and direct messages from people in the

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know. This is a story that
I myself have gone down endless rabbit holes

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to get toward the truth. And
by the way, if you want to

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see if you want to see what
this woman does on Instagram, you need

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to follow the Instagram page called house
Inhabit. Oh my god, Oh my

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god, is she on top of
this thing. It's amazing. But I've

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got to tell you, and there
are people who disagree with me. Yeah,

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I saw him slamming fucking kitchen cabinets. I saw him poor the big

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glass of wine and say, do
you want to see crazy? This is

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crazy. I've been that guy,
But so far, I've seen no evidence

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of physical violence, taught Amber Heard
from Johnny Depth. All they show is

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someone who had a problem with drinking. Obviously, doing drugs isn't good,

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and writing text messages that weren't nice. But that's not the same as somebody

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physically abusing someone physically abusing. You
can say on a text, I want

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to kill so and so, but
unless you try and do, and it

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doesn't make you guilty in a court
of law, in the court of public

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opinion, and might made people turn
their cheek and say, oh my god,

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he's awful. You know, I'm
never gonna tell you I was abused.

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I was never physically abused, but
I've experienced emotional abuse absolutely, and

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Amber Heard does not I'm across as
a victim at all. Her actions are

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definitely not sitting well with me.
They're not. Also, his past relationships

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have never had any claims with spousal
abuse. I'm finding it very hard to

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believe this is the first time Johnny
Depp was a woman, abuse would give

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me a goddamn break. Now,
I will tell you this, and it's

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not something I'm proud of, But
I had a girlfriend who at some point

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I didn't want to stay at the
house anymore. I wanted to leave and

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go out and meet my friends.
And it was the tale end of our

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relationship. And I just was like, I gotta go, and I knew

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it was gonna be hard to leave, and she made it almost impossible for

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me to leave. I mean,
in fact, she told me, if

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you leave, I'm gonna slam my
eye on this doorknob and tell the cops

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you punched me. And I said, why would you do that? Why

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would you try to ruin my life? Because I just want to leave.

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I don't want to be here anymore. This is over twenty years ago,

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but this is the kind of shit
that exists. This happens to men.

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I know men' smack women around.
We've all heard about male toxicity blah blah

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blah, but it exists on the
female level as well. Toxic masculinely is

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one thing. Toxic femininity is another
thing. We saw it with Jada Pinkett

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Smith. We've seen it with her. There are many other women I can

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bring into light with this, but
enter Amber Heard. She is the newest

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latest face that you can put on
toxic femininity. Amber Heard's actions are definitely

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not sitting well with me. They're
they're not I can see through people who

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are full of shit. Johnny comes
across as the victim of domestic abuse and

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all the mental health consequences that causes
it. He's a man, and there's

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nowhere for abused men to go.
Really, you may be able to do

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it if you're a single, if
you're if you're a married man in Indiana

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and no one's looking at you,
but try doing it when you're a big

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Hollywood star and your wife is a
big Hollywood star. No one's gonna believe

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it. She's a frail, little
blonde. He called her slim. That

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was his nickname for her. He's
big, bad Johnny Depth. Not that

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he's big, not that he's a
physically violent person. But you look at

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his movies, like Donnie Brascow in
Black Mask. He could currently come across

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his violin. So there are people
who are waiting with bated breath to call

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him violent, but he's not.
He's a gentle guy. But there really

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is nowhere for men to go when
they feel abused. And basically, I've

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been in that position, not physically
abused, but emotionally abused. And you

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have women saying things to you,
egging you on, goading you into,

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trying to make you the monster you
don't want to be. It's a terrible

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position to be in. What are
you gonna do? Go to a fucking

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doctor, You're gonna go to a
psychologist. What can you do? There's

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not a lot of avenues for a
man to go down. There's just not.

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No one wants to believe a multi
millionaire superstar actor is abused by a

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little slim amber Heard and I love
that he changed the initials on his fingers

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from slim to scum. Amber Heard
has literally admitted to physically harming him on

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tape. I didn't beat you,
I hit you. I didn't punch you

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out, I hit you. You
know, be a man, Johnny.

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I don't know where you come from. But a man can't hear that kind

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of talk without popping off. Yeah, if he parted himself a big fucking

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wine, and if he threw a
couple of kitchen cabinets across the So be

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it a man. I can't hear
a woman say I didn't punch you,

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Johnny, I hit you. There's
a difference. Be a man. Yeah.

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A lot of you are saying,
well, just walk away. I

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know it sounds so simple, just
walk away, But there's a lot of

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strings attached. Man. But she
admitted to physically harming him on tape,

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and then she attempted to gaslight him
again, all recorded and played for the

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courtroom. And if he did another
Pirates movie, which he said he wouldn't,

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it would break all records with the
public favor that this has won him.

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I don't care what you think,
but I suddenly tomorrow it was announced

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that Johnny Depp's doing the next Pirates
of the Caribbean installment. The ticket sales

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would be insane. Now, he
might not win this suit. I think

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he will, but let's leave room
for doubt. He might not win this

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suit, but he's proven that she
was the worst of the two and had

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literally no business writing that op ed
for The Washington Post. I read the

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article a while back, with people
saying how his need for revenge is out

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of control and he's only hurting himself, not to mention, costing himself in

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more ways than one. Look at
man, I think both of them has

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serious emotional problems. She exaggerated whether
she believes that or not as debatable,

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and he downplayed it. They obviously
had a toxic relationship and they brought out

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the worst in each other, to
say the least, that happens in relationships.

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And now he's using the legal system
to further abuse her, but in

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a legal way. It's the only
means he has left. The guy knows

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that people want to believe him,
so he's getting up there and playing his

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part. People like him more than
her, and maybe he knows, maybe

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he knows that he maybe can't win
the case, but he will win in

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the court of public opinion. You
can scroll through Facebook and Instagram and I'll

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be proven right. When he enters
the courtroom, women swoon. Even the

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men look at each other when Johnny
walks in the fucking room. They don't

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do that for amberhard. And if
you think that doesn't make a difference in

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a court case, you're completely wrong, completely wrong. I watched John Gotti

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walk into court a couple of times. I know the jury was pay off,

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but man, oh man, that
the people in that courtroom fucking swoon.

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Little did I know back then that
Sammy the Bull Gravano was paying off

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jurors to get john off the case. But people swooned. When people see

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Johnny Depp helping women out of the
limousine or the truck that's taken them to

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the courtroom, they love it.
They can't believe this man is on trial

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for being physically abusive. All that
matters, guys, It all matters.

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People love to say that. You
know, it's very manipulative and abusive that

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men in the real world to do
this all the time. No one wants

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to believe that handsome, nice guys
are capable of violent things. Listen,

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I know they are. But if
you can't see that this sweet, young,

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pretty blonde with beautiful hair is a
complete lying bitch, I don't know

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what to tell you. The proof
is in the tapes, but riddle me

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this am I the only one who
suspects him actually miss her. You know,

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when someone's attracted to something so nasty
that they know it's their downfall,

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but they must have it. If
Johnny has been and he's been on record

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saying this an abuser of alcohol and
pills, that's the same thing as wanting

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to be with a woman you know
is no good for you. He knows

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the opioid roxy coadum is no good
for him. It may feel good in

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the moment, but over time it's
no good for him. Cocaine is no

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good for him, tobacco, alcohol, whatever you want to say, is

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no good for him. Neither his
amber heart. She's one of the things

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that are toxic to him that he
misses. Johnny didn't want this to go

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to court. He begged her,
I'm giving you an out. You don't

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want to do this, but she
kept at it, and he felt he

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had to do what he had to
do. And if I can't have you,

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I will destroy you way. I
got that feeling. And I wonder

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if they'll get an offer for a
goddamn reality show or an intensive marriage he

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had but doctor Phil or doctor Drew
or every doctor combined. Of course they

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won't do it. But believe me, those things are lined up. Johnny

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has him look great lately. He
hasn't. He cleaned himself up in court.

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I'm glad he put the ponytail him
when he went up on stand to

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talk, because you look like hell
with the hand just hanging there. He

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really did, and she's dressing like
someone from the fucking Handmaid's Tale, and

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it's not working, especially when she's
obviously taking his zat next before each court

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day. Sometimes I think the screen
is frozen on her, only to find

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out, Oh, no, she's
frozen. She's just not She's frozen.

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She's on Zanlex. Johnny's not coming
to court high Amber heard is. Trust

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me. I usually enjoy scrolling through
Facebook and Instagram for the videos and stuff,

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but I have to stop over the
week, and I had to lay

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off. I have so many friends
on my own feed reposting trial footage and

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ranting about Johnny's innocence. It's insane. It's celebrity worship at the most bizarre

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level. And there are people,
especially women, who want so badly to

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believe that these handsome male actors are
the characters they play on screen. They

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so desperately want to believe that these
romanticized versions of their good guy ideal is

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real that they sometimes ignore heart and
clear evidence to the contrary. Now,

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I think Johnny's innocent, but I'm
just telling you what some people believe.

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You may say, as some of
my male friends do and some of them

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are in the journalism business that absolutely
nothing can excuse those text messages Johnny sent

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about wanting Amber dead and referencing,
you know, having sex with their dead

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corpse. I gotta tell you someone, I'm guilty of texting similar things with

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like minded friends. Never do we
mean what we say, but we say

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it just the same. My relationship
with my girlfriend began where she read a

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text or an email I wrote to
somebody that was just completely just me being

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insane and stupid and irreverently funny with
somebody I know who can take the joke.

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But when you read it and you're
not, you know, on it,

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it sounds disgusting and looks insane.
Took me weeks to battle that.

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I'm still battling it out. I
know it doesn't make any sense, but

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I've had friends who say the most
horrible things on emails, and we know

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we don't mean it. We just
say it for entertaining ourselves. It's a

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way to use humor to diffuse the
pain we feel. Now. Do I

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believe men can be victim of abuse? Of course I do do. I

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believe the continuation and retaliation of abuse
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I'm not in Johnny depp shoes,
but I'll tell you right now, I

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don't give a shit what you think. But the studios will be lining up

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with parts for Johnny Depp because this
listen, this lawsuit is so misguided.

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There are some details I haven't really
pinned down and paid really a lot of

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attention to. So forgive me if
I'm wrong, But these lawsuits can't be

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won. Sometimes, regardless of fault
or who initiated watt, who go to

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whom only to film them, they
were both messy, intoxicated, violent,

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volatile messes of people. You listen
to those tapes and you get sick.

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You want to turn them off,
but you can't. It's like hearing your

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next door neighbors just threatening to kill
each other. Some people say Johnny should

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have let the slide, but here
we are, and in a lot of

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ways, he is imitating his idol, Marlon Brando, not only in what

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he says and acts, but actually
how he looks. Let's say, for

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arguments sake, Amber started fights to
watch fireworks go off and then film it

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for leverage. If the relationship ended
and Johnny still went nuts, I see

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his point. Some people say there's
no winning in this situation. The best

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outcome would be to minimize the damage, to walk away, to know when

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to fold them. He's going scorched
earth. But I believe and I know

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that she instigated these dramas, and
I don't think he should have walked away

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sooner. I don't. I think
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Do I think he has mental health
issues, not particularly, but she certainly

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licked the match to the alcohol soaked
red that he's become. People say,

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well, walk away, That's easier
said than done. Guys, if someone's

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mentally ill, or if someone has
issues like Johnny has, but he's just

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not violent, He's non physical when
it comes to these things. I don't

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know how you can't see that.
Yes, I think he should have put

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this in the rearview mirror and try
to get away from it. But maybe

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he's compulsive and couldn't let it go. It's very sad either way. And

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by the way, you can start
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colony and divorce, because after hearing
those text messages publicly, it's not gonna

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last much longer. There's gonna be
some issues in that relationship, but I

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feel like if I were to judge
in any of these cases, I would

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rule that, look, you're both
hot ass messes, and I'd call it

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a fucking day. I wish they
could. I wish they'd go, look

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enough enough, you're both full of
shit, you're both crazy. No one's

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getting fifty million or one hundred million. Let's just call it a day and

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go home. Both of you stop
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were the case. Johnny's got these
ardent defenders who are never gonna believe he's

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anything but a saint on earth,
and Amber is always going to be that

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messy bitch who led him astray and
made him out to be a meaning and

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unfortunately that's going to be part of
his legacy going forward. The truth is

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likely somewhere in the middle, as
it always is, but some people just

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can't wrap their mind around the fact
that both of them can be both toxic

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to each other. This is proof
that only love can hurt like this.

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Johnny Depp has been up there,
understand raw and very vulnerable, and many

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people take that his weakness or his
guilt, but I don't. I read

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the stories and the newspapers and the
websites about how he's no longer employable,

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how he droned on for hours and
ruined any chance he's ever working again.

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Bullshit. It makes me laugh.
If you haven't learned that Hollywood loves a

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comeback story, you're not paying a
mention to anything. There's so many names

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mentioned in connection to Johnny and Amberger. Hollywood is literally licking its chops to

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get him in the room and talk
about a movie again. You're crazy.

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If all the world loves a car
crash and everybody is explaining his performance in

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the courtroom as a car crash,
what do you think's gonna happen? The

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whole world is going to slow down
and watch the fucking movie, just as

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he watched the car crash. We've
all driven by car crashes. We can't

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explain why it happens. And after
we leave the car crash, we all

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say, what is everybody looking at? Why don't anybody slow down? What

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we're looking at is something we hope
to see, and that is surviving the

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car crash. Johnny Depp has been
so good at making us fall in love

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with all the characters he's played from
Edward scissor Hands to Gilbert Grape to Jack

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Sparrow, and on and on.
And if you think for a second America

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is not ready for another heaping spoonful
of Johnny Depp on screen, you're crazy.

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Matter of fact, there's never been
a time when he's been more hot

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than right now. How could any
of you not see this trial and not

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visibly see proof that Amber Heard is
a gaslighting, crazy bitch. I don't

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know. Maybe none of you have
been in dysfunctional, awful relationships, but

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I have, and I know those
texts, and I hear those phone calls,

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and boy, oh boy, I'd
been on the other end of those

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things. You have no idea when
a woman is antagonizing you and begging you

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to blow up and begging you to
become the monster you don't want to be.

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And then Johnny Depp did become that
monster. He did use drunks to

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cope with their bullshit. But there's
no way you can tie an angry text

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message along with physically abusing her,
especially when the makeup she claimed she used

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wasn't even around back then. It
came to light in twenty seventeen. I

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don't know if you read those stories
but the makeup she claimed to always use

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on her bruises wasn't even around.
The makeup company came out and said,

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listen, we weren't around during this
abusive stage, alleged abusive stage, so

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we don't want to get involved in
this. She's full of shit, guys,

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if you can't see that's what she
wanted to do to him. I

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don't know what to tell you.
You've lived a charmed life. You've never

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been down those lovely hole ways of
relationships where women can become the devil in

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a second. But you look at
him on truck. Can you imagine having

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to expose your own trauma in front
of the whole world and then be judged

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by the performance in which you do
it, as if it's a movie role.

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I think people who do this are
sick and demented, and they don't

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understand the nature of being traumatized,
especially by a woman you love. I

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find it gross that people think what
he's doing is boring up there on the

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stand. I'm sorry, but recounting
my trauma is boring to you. I'm

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sorry. This is not meant to
be a Hollywood performance. He's in the

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trial of his life, his testimony
is not meant to be exciting and riveting

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because the trial is not for your
entertainment. And the media is the biggest

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culprit because for years they painted amber
Heard as a victim without really examining the

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facts. Are you shocked by that? And now they don't know what to

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do with an emotional man sitting on
the stand speaking about his trauma. America

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is not ready for that. America
has not seen that before. And it's

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easier to just act like he's bullshitting
than to counter the truth, because then

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they've got to retract everything they ever
said and wrote, and you know,

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the media never does that. And
I gotta tell you something, My heart

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hurt for him when he was trying
to explain the Winona Forever tattoo, which

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amber Heard hated, and he changed
it to Wino Forever after they broke up.

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I don't know he did what he
had to do. I don't know

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how you've lived your lives, but
there comes a point when humor has to

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intersect and come to the rescue of
your pain. And you're lucky if you've

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never had to do that. It's
not an easy thing to do, to

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make fun of your pain. But
if you want to survive with that pain,

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you need to bring humor into it. And that's all Wino Forever is

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all right. The guy likes wine. Obviously he's allowed to like wine.

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It's not illegal to like wine.
But again, this has nothing to do

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with anything. It has nothing to
do with allegedly physically abusing her. And

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for Christ's sake, again, you
can tell by the way she's dressing and

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what she's trying to portray herself as
I mean, not using mass Scarratt doesn't

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make her look at this and it
just makes her look tired. And I

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know someone is on Zanix and she
clearly is on Zanis in that courtroom every

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day. Meanwhile, Johnny's bright out
and bush tailed when you see him.

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Understand, I think the whole Hollywood
images are stripped away. So he's less

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the Hollywood icon we all know and
love, and more a man just trying

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to redeem his name. You've got
to think of him like that. Finally,

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I got this letter from a long
time publicist who's a listener and a

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patron, and I find it very
illuminating. Stacy Benasco has been at this

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game a long time, and she's
a patron and a listener, and I

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wanted to include this letter she sent
me. She said, since Johnny Depp

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is being dragged through the mud again
with the new trial, I wanted to

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share my Johnny Depp story and how
much of a gentleman he is. The

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New York City premier of his film
Chuck a Lot was on December fourth at

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the Paris Theater. It was brutally
cold and the red carpet arrival's line was

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outside, so we had a huge
group of media, including photographers, cruise

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and print reporters waiting to get a
photo and a sound bite from Johnny Depp.

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There were also several fans waiting by
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him. I was there that day. I know all about this movie.

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Johnny's reps were trying to rush him
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They needed to start the film,
and everyone was waiting on him. I

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was handling media on the red carpet
and my assignment was to get the shots

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for our freezing call photographers. And
since this film was a Mirror Max production,

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the stress level was high. Johnny
wouldn't let his reps win, and

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he sweetly told me that he will
definitely take photos and make sure we get

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the shots of him. He then
took a few minutes spoke to fans and

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made it clear that they were important
to him. I remember he said something

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to the reps along the lines of
Hey, these people have been waiting in

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the cold and wanted to say hi. He was a complete and absolute dream

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to work with for those minutes.
Everyone who came into contact with him felt

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the same way. I worked with
tons of celebrities since I started my PR

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career in nineteen ninety eight and have
so many celebrity horror stories, but this

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brief interaction stays with me because of
the way Johnny treated everyone, from a

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lowly junior publicist to the photographers on
the carpet. He was one percent class.

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He could have done like many other
celebs and passed by the carpet and

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fans in the freezing cold. Jennifer
Lopez was at the premiere didn't even want

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to walk the carpet because she was
too cold, but Johnny Dead didn't and

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in turn, he made my job
so much easier by allowing me to get

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the shots and the photos needed if
we didn't deliver the huge amount of post

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premiere press that Harvey Weinstein expected,
we would have hell to pay. Needless

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to say, the premiere was covered
everywhere. In Johnny's photos were the ones

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used. I would love to see
him make a deserved comeback, and I

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loved that letter Stacy, thank you. I would too, and I think

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we will see to come back.
I only met Johnny once, although we

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have so many things in common from
me dating Whenona Ryder years ago, and

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there's a lot of strange things that
we have in common, even to the

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extent not to sound like I asked
all that for a minute or two,

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we looked pretty much alike. We
had a very similar look. A matter

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of fact, there was a picture
up in my bedroom of myself that my

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friend Adolpho Galella took, the great
photographer, and I took it. I

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had him take it when I just
broke up with a girlfriend. I wanted

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to always remember her anger I was
in this picture and I had it framed

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and put in my room. And
one night Whenona was in my room,

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and the first thing she ever said
to me while she waited for me in

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my room was remind me so much
of Johnny in this photo. I'll sound

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like an asshole. If I go
further, I'll sound like a narcissistic idiot.

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But the point is this, him
and I have a lot in common.

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And I only met him once,
and we sat and talked at a

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birthday party thrown for him and a
joint called Metronome in New York City,

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And I'll share that story on tomorrow's
Patreon, but I can tell you he

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was one of the most gentle and
sweet celebrities I ever met. He didn't

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care that I was a gossip columnist. He made sure there was room for

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me at that table, even poured
me a drink that we both sipped from.

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He only cared that I was there
with Mickey Rourke, and he said

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to me, and he friended,
Mickey's a friend of mine, and matter

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what you do, he asked about
my family, my girlfriend, my job,

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my life, like he was actually
interested. And when I left,

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I said to myself, Jesus Christ, Johnny Depp just interviewed you. You

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didn't ask him anything. But he
politely and a deptly turned the tables on

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me in the sweetest way possible.
But I'm very good at first impressions,

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and I could tell what I left
him that I was sitting with a sweet

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gentle man. And yeah, I
know there are two signs to every man.

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But as sure as I can say, I have been miscast and not

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judged properly by people who don't truly
know me. This is what I feel

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about him too. Then and now, Johnny Depp will win this case.

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He will win because he comes across
as a man who has been tormented and

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angered and hurt by a mean,
plotting, gas lighting woman. She picked

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on a gentle soul, but she's
not gonna like the way this jury and

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the public opinion comes back at her
heart. Zamber Hurd's career that's going to

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be damaged going forward, not Johnny
Depp's. You mock my words. You

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want to hear more, go to
my Patreon show. I got plenty more

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to say. In the meantime,
I'm aj Benzo. That was Famous a

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Bitch for Saturday, April twenty third, twenty twenty two. Talk to ys

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later, Thank you for listening.
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