Celebrities Who Have Weighed in on Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
Videos of Courtney Love showed her defending Depp and criticizing Heard in May 2022, before she took them down and apologized.
The Hole front-woman shared her opinions about Depp and Heard in since-deleted videos posted on her friend Jessica Reed Kraus’ Instagram account on May 21.
In the posts, Love said, “I don’t really wanna make judgments publicly. I just wanna tell you that Johnny gave me CPR in 1995 when I overdosed outside the Viper Room,” according to People.
She continued discussing the kindness Depp showed her when she was a drug addict. Love then moved on to discussing Heard.
“I’ve been the most hated woman in America, and I have a lot of empathy for what that must feel like for Amber,” she said. “But if you use a movement for your own personal gain and you inhabit queer, feminist, intersectional spaces and you abuse that moment, then I hope justice gets served.”
Later on that day, after the videos were taken down, Love posted on her own Instagram account, writing an apology, although never naming Heard or Depp.
“I engaged in expressing thoughts online,” she wrote, saying that it was a mistake and that she has had her own fair share of public criticism, adding, “I want to show neutral support for a friend. I don’t want to bully.”
“I want nothing to do with contributing more online bullying to someone enduring being bullied like no one ever has been online,” she said, referring to Heard.
She went on to say she has empathy for “both parties” and apologized for her words.