iO Tillett Wright was one of Amber Heard’s most vocal supporters during the divorce. When I wrote about Wright, I didn’t always know which gender he identified as, but in all of the coverage of this new Wright story, outlets are using male pronouns, so I’m going with that, and it seems to be his preference as well. As I said, Wright was one of Amber’s biggest defenders, and Wright wrote an incredibly moving essay about calling 911 on Johnny Depp. That was a few months back. Now that Amber and Johnny have settled their divorce, Wright is talking more about what happened and how he feels about it now. Some quotes:
Wright says Amber lost money in the divorce: He said the amount was about a sixth of what she could have been awarded, adding: “And she paid all her own legal fees.”
Why he wrote the essay for Refinery29: “That situation was so public. I’m not ever going to be one of them – I’m not ever going to be an A-list celebrity. But I chose to get involved in that situation because it was imperative to say what I thought was right.”
On Johnny’s problems: “It’s a tough thing. My attitude about that is the same as the attitude I have about my parents . People are very rarely bad people. People have things happen to them, and people have pain that they’re trying to get around. Everybody is trying to dance with their pain and sometimes it’s, who do you stab in the process? It’s what you do about having stabbed them that’s the delineation between people you can have in your life and people you can’t.”
He lived with Amber & Johnny for a time last year: “They saved my life. One hundred percent,” he said of the couple, revealing they got him on plane back to L.A. after telling him to call them if he ever needed anything. The activist says Depp’s generosity did not end there. The actor once offered to help Wright financially, but he rejected the offer, fearing that it would poison their friendship.
Wright says that he hasn’t been in contact with Depp in a while and doesn’t plan to be in contact with him in the future. Wright is very much Team Amber, still, saying: “Amber is one of my best friends.” I believe him about Amber losing money, although I do think Depp had to pay for Amber’s legal fees? Although considering how fast and loose Depp played with the terms of the settlement, who knows?
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