Julia Fox Sparks Debate By Saying Amber Heard 'Never Had The Power' To Abuse Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard is ongoing. Many celebrities have shared their opinion on the messy court case. Very recently, Julia Fox has commented on the trial as well. She too has been in the headlines recently after she dated Kanye West. The two only dated for a short while. She has made a comment that Amber Heard hitting Johnny Depp is not abuse. This has infuriated the internet. Both have claimed that they faced abuse in the relationship, testifying that they were the victim.

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Heard is being sued by Depp for $50m for implying he abused her in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed. Although she didn’t name him, he claims her allegations impacted his ability to work. As court proceedings in the defamation trial resume after a week-long hiatus, the high profile lawsuit has gained massive attention from fans and celebrities, including Chris Rock and Depp’s ex-fiancé Jennifer Grey weighing in on the lawsuit.

Now, the Uncut Gems actress has shared her opinion on the lawsuit. In what appears to be an Instagram comment left under a social media post on 14 May, Fox claims that Heard could not have been abused by Depp because she was not in a position of physical or financial power over him.

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“Wrong. She never had the power in the relationship to be abusive to him,” Fox commented. “Did she hit him? Yes. Was it abuse? No. You need to have power to be able to abuse it. She was 25. He clearly was always way more powerful including physically and financially.”

While it’s unclear where Fox made the comment on Instagram, screenshots of the comment have been widely circulated on social media; Perez Hilton reposted her alleged comments while one tweet captioned “We Love Julia Fox” earned nearly 25,000 likes and over 2,000 retweets.

Singer-songwriter Aubrey O’Day strongly disagreed with Fox’s opinion, referring to it as a “trash take”.

“Plenty of broke, short, skinny, non-famous people have abused their partner,” she replied to the tweet. “Abuse is simply cruel and violent treatment of a person.. power not being a necessary factor. less powerful ppl abuse their more powerful partner out of jealousy all the time.”

Journalist Taylor Lorenz agreed with Fox’s connection of abuse and power, adding that Heard “didn’t have the power” in her relationship with Depp. She tweeted: “I don’t think a lot of ppl don’t understand what abusive relationships actually look like. Julia Fox put it well tbh”.

However, many people believed that the comment perpetuated a stigma surrounding male survivors of domestic abuse. By claiming that Depp was more powerful in the relationship, social media users felt that it minimised his allegations of domestic violence.

“I just need to point out that her use of ‘physical strength’ as evidence that Johnny couldn’t have been abused is a common stigma in abuse cases but especially when it comes to male victims,” one person tweeted. “Domestic violence is NOT about size or strength, it’s about control.”

Another person tweeted: “This is why men don’t come forward when abused. What a bad take.”

Julia Fox has previously voiced her support for Amber Heard on social media, after the model posted another Instagram comment claiming that she is “so in love” with Heard and that the defamation lawsuit is a “sick way of still controlling her life”.

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Fox, 32, is a mother to her one-year-old son Valentino. In a recent interview with the New Yorker, the Italian-American actress opened up about growing up in New York City, where she began working as a dominatrix in her last year of high school. Before becoming the star of 2019’s Uncut Gems, Fox had published her own art books, which detailed her experience with “abuse and addiction and sex work.”

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“It felt good to pull this veil off my life,” she said about her art at the time. “Sure, it was bad, but it’s not, like, the worst.”