Javier Bardem, Sia, Eva Green, Winona Ryder, Vanessa Paradis... Many celebrities have supported Johnny Depp during his legal clashes with Amber Heard, his ex-wife, on the basis of mutual accusations of domestic violence.
A list to which was added the name of Courtney Love, Saturday, May 21.
The singer expressed herself in a series of videos posted on the Instagram account of her friend Jessica Reed Kraus - and since deleted - in which she defends the hero of
Pirates of the Caribbean
.
She relates in particular how the actor saved her life, in the middle of the 1990s – an episode that she had already mentioned in 2006.
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“I overdosed”
“I don't really want to pass judgment in public, but I just wanted to let you know that Johnny gave me CPR in 1995 when I overdosed outside the Viper Room (
a Hollywood nightclub , Ed
)”, she explained.
A period during which Courtney Love, then a drug addict, tries to come to terms with the death of her husband Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide the previous year.
Johnny Depp would also have supported Frances Bean Cobain, the couple's daughter, through this ordeal.
He would have written a letter to her when she was a teenager.
Letter, preview and limousines
"Johnny - when I was addicted to crack and Frances suffered from it, surrounded by social workers - wrote her a four-page letter, which she never showed me, on her 13th birthday, Courtney recalled Love.
He didn't really know me."
He added, "Then he sent a limo to pick her and her friends up from school when the social workers were swarming around - again, without my asking."
Johnny Depp would also have reserved a designated seat for the teenager during certain previews.
"I've never seen
Pirates of the Caribbean
," Courtney Love said, "but Frances loved those movies.
You know, when she was 13, she said to me, 'Mom, he saved my life.
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The 'most hated woman in America'
At the end of one of the videos, Courtney Love nevertheless expressed her “empathy” towards Amber Heard.
“I was the most hated woman in America, recalled the artist.
I was the most hated woman in the world before the advent of TikTok (…) I have a lot of empathy for Amber Heard.
Damn, wow, can you imagine yourself in his place?”
And the singer concludes: "But if you use a movement for personal ends, that you come from queer feminist spaces, and that you abuse this kind of spotlight, then, I hope that justice will be done, whoever she is."
If some of these videos were indeed intended to be published, Jessica Reed Kraus later clarified in an Instagram story that other stories had been shared by mistake.
Faced with the indignant comments of some Internet users, Courtney Love thus formulated her mea culpa, this Monday, May 23.
"The platform accidentally posted a post that I didn't want to make public," she said.
I wanted to show neutral support to a friend.
I don't want to harass anyone."
And the singer concludes: "The only important thing to remember, in all that has been published, is that I said that we should all stop having fun with this "schadenfraude" (
the fact of reveling in someone's downfall, editor's note
) and show genuine empathy for both parties.
Please accept my apologies if I hurt anyone."
