Mission NGO declared its assist for Johnny Depp.
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A girls’s abuse group voiced assist for Johnny Depp on Friday — becoming a member of a rising refrain of the actor’s feminine associates and co-stars who've defended him amid claims he bodily and sexually abused ex Amber Heard.
Mission NGO, a nonprofit that fights violence towards girls and kids worldwide, expressed “compassion” for the 58-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor.
“As girls, as moms, we have now the responsibility and the accountability to coach our little children … with none gender distinction, with a purpose to stop violence,” Valeria Altobelli, the group’s president, stated in a press release.
“[It is with] deep respect for the victims of home abuses that we have now to affirm … our compassion for Johnny Depp on this dangerous web page of his private historical past.”
The group didn’t elaborate, or instantly return a request for remark Friday.
The assertion got here a day after music producer Bruce Witkin testified that Depp used medicine and alcohol to deal with emotional ache. Depp has beforehand testified that his mother, Betty Sue Palmer, bodily and psychologically abused him.
On Thursday, singer Courtney Love and actress Eva Inexperienced additionally defended Depp as a caring individual — regardless of Heard’s testimony that he threatened to kill her and as soon as broke her nostril in a jealous rage.
Love posted a video on Twitter describing how Depp rushed to save lots of her from a drug overdose at a nightclub within the ’90s and was candy to her daughter, Frances Bean.
“I don’t actually wanna make judgments publicly, however I simply wish to inform you that Johnny gave me CPR in 1995 after I overdosed outdoors the Viper Room with Sal. Johnny, after I was on crack and Frances was having to undergo by way of that with social employees, wrote her a four-page letter that she’s by no means confirmed me on her thirteenth birthday. He didn’t actually know me,” she stated.
Inexperienced, in the meantime, stated she had little question Depp will “emerge” victorious within the trial.
“I've little question Johnny will emerge along with his good title and great coronary heart revealed to the world, and life might be higher than it ever was for him and his household,” Inexperienced, who starred with Depp within the 2012 fantasy “Darkish Shadows,” wrote on Instagram.
Different feminine celebrities — together with Sia, Wynona Ryder, Helena Bonham and Penélope Cruz — spoke out on Depp’s behalf throughout his UK libel trial in 2020.
“The concept he's an extremely violent individual is the farthest factor from the Johnny I knew and cherished,” Ryder, a former girlfriend of Depp, stated in 2020. “He was by no means, by no means violent in the direction of me. He has by no means been violent or abusive in the direction of anyone I've seen.”
Cruz added, “I’ve seen Johnny in so many conditions and he's at all times sort to everybody round. He is among the most beneficiant folks I do know,” she stated.
The musician Sia additionally defended Depp in a tweet on the time, writing, “Simply displaying my public assist for Johnny Depp.
“I imply, I’d love him to get clear and cease with the jewelry, however he's clearly the sufferer after listening to these tapes.”
Within the UK case, Depp sued the writer of the UK Solar over a headline calling him a “wife-beater” and misplaced.
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million for claiming in a Washington Submit op-ed that she was a sufferer of home violence.
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