Cara Delevingne says her bond with Amber Heard went beyond friendship during the period Heard was divorcing Johnny Depp, adding a new personal detail to a case that has already produced multimillion-dollar damages and settlements.
Cara Delevingne didn’t describe her past with Amber Heard in careful, distant terms. On the Louis Theroux Podcast, the 33-year-old model said she and Heard were “entangled” while Heard was going through her divorce from Johnny Depp.
“We were close for a long time,” Delevingne said. “Yeah, we were entangled, I suppose. But she was also entangled with other people.”
Delevingne also linked the fallout around their connection to Depp’s reaction during the same period, when the three worked together on the thriller “London Fields.” She said she believed Depp was consumed by jealousy.
“I think he was pretty driven crazy by jealousy,” she said. “Nothing was happening at that point. Later, after they divorced, it had.”
The remarks land against a timeline that has been shaped by court filings and major financial outcomes. Heard and Depp married in February 2015, and their relationship unraveled quickly. Heard filed for divorce and obtained a temporary restraining order in May 2016. alleging Depp had physically abused her during their 15-month marriage. The divorce was finalized in 2017.
In 2019. Depp sued Heard for defamation over a 2018 Washington Post essay in which she described herself as a victim of domestic abuse without naming him. In 2022, a jury awarded Depp more than $10 million in damages. Heard partially won her defamation countersuit and was awarded $2 million on one of her counterclaims. After the legal fight, the former couple reached a settlement in which Heard agreed to pay Depp $1 million.
Delevingne’s comments extend beyond her past friendship to her present life. She said that the relationship she’s in now “feels like the first time I’ve ever really been in love. ” and that she wants a family “really badly.” She also shared that she has been both proposed to and popped the question herself.
Though she has been engaged before, Delevingne said she never wanted a traditional marriage. “It was engagement that made me feel like they might not leave me,” she said. “So it was like, ‘Oh, if we’re engaged, that means there’s an extra line they have to go to leave.’”
The combination of personal candor and a long-running public dispute—spanning a marriage, a restraining order, a defamation trial, and multimillion-dollar damages—underscores how private connections can keep echoing even when a verdict has already tried to close the door.
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