The Op-Ed’s Purpose
The Playboy Club alum again repeated her assertion that the original op-ed was not meant to be about Depp at all. “The op-ed wasn’t about my relationship with Johnny,” she claimed. “What the op-ed was about was me loaning my voice to a bigger cultural conversation that we were having at the time. … It was important for me not to make it about him or to do anything like defame him. I had lawyers — teams of lawyers — review all the drafts of this.” When Guthrie asked whether Heard wanted her ex-husband to be “canceled,” she replied, “Of course not. It wasn’t about him.”
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