Depp v Heard: the unreal story extract chapters 1-2

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DEPP V HEARD: THE UNREAL STORY
‘It didn’t feel like a normal scene,’ said Heard. ‘It felt more real.
There are certain things you do in the job to be professional… you don’t
use your tongue if you can avoid it and there are certain things you do
to just, to maintain a certain line, and it just felt like those lines were
blurred… he really kissed me.’
Recalling that same moment, Depp said: ‘I felt like something I
shouldn’t be feeling.’
At the time, Depp was in a relationship. He had been with the French
model and actor Vanessa Paradis for more than a decade. She was the
mother of his two children, Lily-Rose and Jack. Heard was living with
the artist Tasya van Ree. Their relationship had developed to the extent
that Heard was using van Ree’s surname.
During filming, Heard visited Depp’s trailer. She had bought him a
bottle of wine. ‘I set it down and at some point I’m going... back to set
and he kicked his foot up in the air and lifted the back of my bathrobe
up… I just kind of giggled and batted it away playfully.’ Depp then apparently
pushed Heard down in a ‘playful and flirtatious’ manner onto
what she described as a ‘bed/sofa’ in the trailer ‘and he said: “Yum.”
And he kind of lifted up his eyebrows.’
Heard said that throughout the shoot she felt a ‘chemistry’ which
went ‘beyond the pale’ of her job, but nothing significant happened.
Both actors were spoken for.
In October 2011 Depp and Heard began a press tour to promote the
release of The Rum Diary. Depp has indicated his relationship with
Vanessa Paradis had broken down by this stage. Likewise, Heard has
intimated that by that date she and Tasya van Ree were in the process
of going their separate ways 1 .
One evening, during the press tour, Depp invited Heard to his hotel
room. He told her Bruce Robinson was going to be there. Robinson, if
he was invited, didn’t show. Heard and Depp drank red wine and Heard
said ‘the reconnection was almost instant… it felt like there was an
electricity to the room… we talked, finished some wine and… as I went
to leave, he grabbed both sides of my face – similar to what he did in
Puerto Rico when we were filming that scene – and kissed me.’
Heard ‘kissed him back.’ Asked what happened next, Heard replied:
‘We fell in love.’
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Depp only formally announced his split from Vanessa Paradis in June 2012. The same
month, the Daily Mail newspaper reported Heard and van Ree’s split.