In an essay for OprahDaily.com, author Joyce Maynard has revealed her fascination with the just-concluded defamation trail of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
Her surprising conclusion: someone abused Heard. Just not Depp.Maynard knows about tempestuous relationships. She released a 1998 memoir, At Home in the World, detailing her abusive live-in situation with iconic Catcher in the Rye author J.D.
Salinger. She was villified for writing about the notoriously private Salinger, and accused of trying to vengefully destroy him, much as Heard was portrayed.Given that background, Maynard came into the trial coverage with her own prejudices.
She wrote that the online abuse of Heard “confirm the deeply entrenched misogyny in our culture and the zeal with which it continues to shame women.”However, her initial impressions changed after extensively watching the legal proceedings.“Here’s an alternative view,” Maynard wrote in her essay. “Maybe yesterday’s verdict served to differentiate true claims of partner violence from defamatory allegations.
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