Lorene

Paradoxically, today is the Jubilee celebration of the great and unique Queen Elizabeth for her 70-year reign. Today there are two other much loved young women yet they are:

held in contempt socially;

actresses,

wives of powerful men;

mothers;

their babies threatened;

objects of hate on social media,

judged guilty by strangers;

may never work again.

This should be a cautionary tale for young women to pause and take into consideration.

I have to admit my obsession this past month over the defamation trial of Amber Heard and Johnny, Depp.. Rarely does one get such an insight into the private lives of two A-list celebrities as their trial has provided, with each going after one another with claims of mutual horrific behavior. It is a He Said She Said the likes we have not seen since troubled Supreme Court nomination, when names like Clarence Thomas and Anital HIll, and Bret Kavanaugh and an accuser of rape from his past consumed the airwavea. It make me take pause and wonder: can human behavior really sink so low? Are we capable of being so bad? Are we so base? Watchnng this trial, and the others before it, including shows like Judge Judy, where ordinary people have their day in the sun, Americans can be said to be litigous. But I am not here tonight to analyze the countries litigation practices, I am here to vindicate Amber Heard, a woman betrayed in marriage to a man she loved. She simply chose the wrong man, and she has paid dearly for it.

Everyone loves a winner! And we all have our favorites: sports figures, show dogs, race horses, but perhaps none more than our models, rock stars and movie stars. We forgive them all of their transgressions, their arrests, their DWIs, their reports of cheating on their long suffering spouses, and on and on. Today, we are living through one of most outrageous and compelling opportunities to peek into the key hole as two dazzling super stars each having immeasurable beauty, talent and wealth, aided by their respective attorneys, slash each other to shreds in prime time. I will never forget them: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. The story of their relationship began with love, sweetness and joy at the outset but degenerated into overwhelming dark moods, violence and a “He said, She said” explanation for everythig that happened. Being actors, both believed their careers would be negatively impacted by the news about them and pursued their adversary with the darkest of depictions. I cannot imagine either one of them being a credible actor in the future. This image will be hard to get your mind around,