As it's half time....
The reason they were taping each other
This question comes up a lot, especially recently from journalists spewing forth their wisdom (you would think they might know basic facts) and has spawned various conspiracy theories - including the Gone Girl meme, which in turn has spawned a theory that Amber was using the tapes in some dastardly murder plot (of which her tweeting 'bring knives' is supposedly the culmination) (((which is about as daft as the conspiracy that the texts with Paul Betney amount to threats to kill, misogyny, and way-point on the inevitable road to the bottle incident) (a quick reminder being, that those tweets were apparently pulled from 10 years of data accidentally given to the defence) accidentally in the sense that the Depp team apparently handed over data that was outside the scope of that requested))
The official reason for taping, as presented in evidence, is that Johnny suggested it because misunderstandings were leading to disagreements due to Amber denying that she had said things, which lead to her accusing Johnny of putting words into her mouth, which in turn escalated the disagreement.
When this began is not exactly clear.
But we do know that the marriage counselor, Dr Laurel Anderson, as presented in evidence, suggested that they tape each other, in part (I suspect) to use as examples of how they were progressing in the agreed action plan and as a record.
Amber, it is alleged, was also supposedly making recordings as evidence in a divorce. (How strongly one believe this depends on how much weight you give to her Freudian slip when testifying about Australia, and of the allegations circulating of her contacting her divorce lawyer on the night when the police were called, which isn't currently in evidence: and what you make of the timings of the phone calls, and how incriminating you conclude they are with regard to the 'hoax'.)
Some of the recordings appear to have been made accidentally.
Ok....
Now I realise that to some heavily invested Amber supporters That Umbrella Guy is a red rag to a bull....
But ignore the title of the video, and the video starts without TUG's commentary.
Oh and if you listen to the full audio it doesn't say quite what TUG thinks it says, and does in fact catch Johnny out in a rather big porkie.
If you cast your mind back, when Johnny gave his testimony, he claimed that one of the controlling behaviours (which he claimed was part of the abuse) was that Amber insisted on taking his boots off when he got home.
Yet here he uses it as an example of her trying to be nice, and says (in effect) that maybe it might be one of the little kindnesses they could show each other in their efforts to reconcile.
btw... if anyone suggests writing a morning letter to each other file for divorce immediately....
Something else that is interesting (given how many times Amber talks about her therapist, and even invites her to the engagement party) is the amount of therapy speak Amber uses.
If there is a third person in this marriage, (and Lord knows their are enough runners and riders) listening to this tape one gets the impression that the significant other was the therapist.
Time and again Amber almost agrees, or concedes some petty point... (though neither of them do the most sensible thing couples do, and shut up, talk about something else, break out a 2000 piece jigsaw, switch on the tele, go sit in another room or whatever, instead of endlessly picking the scab... and yes I know this is about her punching him in the head.... and people should feel safe in their homes.... and what about if the genders were reversed.... etc) (But sometimes your gran was right, "if you want to stay together, pull you vest down to your knees and make the best of it")
Where was I?
Oh yes....
What's the betting when Amber says 'a friend said this' or 'a friend said that', she is talking about her therapist.
Dr Laurel Anderson said as much in her testimony, when she said Amber had asked her if she should file for divorce, because her 'friends' and her therapist were saying she should, but she wasn't sure, because she loved Johnny.
Speaking of love.... the bit where they start arguing about if Johnny said love or loved is classic.
I dunno....
Oh and why does so much of what happens happen in March?
Is it the spring sap rising? and stirring Amber's eggs to cluck at the passing season?
Or is it is a fallow period in the drudgery of the film-making calendar? And they spend more time together?
I dunno....
Anywho.... that's why they were taping each other.
PS Does anyone know if in the Lone Ranger (the black and white serial (and yes I know there are 247 episodes) (which is why I'm asking)) Tonto says "until death" (hasta la muerte), or someone in the Pirates films, or maybe Hunter S Thompson.... I know it's an motto of various regiments and secret societies etc..... but there must be a simpler explanation than the nonsense Heard's defence team have come up with - which does her no favours.
and told my partner to find something to do because the TV is so trial watching!
