Looks like some people are a little upset with Julia Fox after she sparked controversy with an Instagram comment Friday in which she said Amber Heard “never had the power” to abuse Johnny Depp. “Wrong. She never had the power in the relationship to be abusive to him,” Fox, 33, commented under an Instagram post amid Heard and Depp’s continuous defamation trial.
julia fox really said with her whole chest that even though amber heard hit johnny depp, it wasn’t abuse because she was 25??? pic.twitter.com/CDDvpkHd2X
— b ✧⡱ (@j0hnnycdpp) May 14, 2022
“Did she hit him? Yes. Was it abuse? No. You need to have the power to be able to abuse it. She was 25. He clearly was always way more powerful including physically and financially.” Following her controversial comments, she received a lot of backlash.
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Singer/songwriter, Aubrey O’Day responded by saying, “Plenty of broke, short, skinny, non-famous people have abused their partner,” she tweeted. “Abuse is the 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.”
More Twitter users began to chime in on the debate. One user said Julia Fox represents the voice of idiots and if anyone agrees with her comment then ‘your sick’!
Julia Fox needs to STFU!!! That dumb Bitch has no idea how abuse works I see!! That man was abused by Amber Heard!! Hitting someone in a relationship is called DOMESTIC VIOLENCE that’s Abuse you Cee yoU Next Tuesday!!
— Oya (@LatinOnyx44) May 15, 2022
“This is a truly truly truly terrible take. Abuse is abuse,” tweeted another user. “Stop justifying it when it suits a narrative. This whole case has shown how quickly people are willing to move goalposts when it suits them and it’s actually disgusting.”
“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,” wrote another.
Just as much as Fox received negative comments the model/actress also received some positive comments that seem to agree with her statement. Podcast host Michael Hobbes shared, “There’s definitely evidence that Heard was abusive, but there’s (more and stronger) evidence that Depp was abusive. And yet the internet is in the middle of a month-long frenzy calling her a sociopath and him an innocent victim.”
Journalist Taylor Lorenz also weighed in on the conversation, replying to Hobbes and saying, “Julia Fox put it well.”
“Abuse is about power and she didn’t have the power. I don’t think a lot of ppl don’t understand what abusive relationships actually look like. Julia Fox put it well tbh,” the Washington Post writer tweeted.
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After a whirlwind one-month romance, Kanye “Ye” West and actress Julia Fox have called it quits. https://t.co/nQWL0vSgSM pic.twitter.com/iaR55fSpdO
— E! News (@enews) February 14, 2022
We know Julia Fox is no stranger to controversy following her public breakup with rap superstar Kanye West. She has been very outspoken about her opinions and doesn’t shy away from speaking her mind. According to The NY Post, they have reached out to Fox for a comment about her viral statement on Amber Heard, but haven’t received a response.