A close friend of Amber Heard, who lived with her and Johnny Depp for a year before they married, has spoken out about their tumultuous relationship.
iO Tillet Wright moved in with the couple after he suffered a mental breakdown due to a failed relationship. He revealed the pair helped him through a difficult time and said he and Depp were 'like brothers'.
However, speaking in an interview with Sunday Times Magazine, the American author revealed he is no longer friends with the Pirates of The Caribbean star but said he understands the 53-year-old was going through pain after losing his mother and battling issues with drink.
He said: "People are very rarely bad people. People have things happen to them, and people have pain that they're trying to get around.
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"Everybody is trying to dance with their pain and sometimes it's, who do you stab in the process? It's what you do about having stabbed them that's the delineation between people you can have in your life and people you can't."
The 31-year-old, who phoned the police after hearing the couple fight during a phonecall with Heard, penned an article titled 'I called 911 because she never could...' which has since been removed from the Internet.
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He told Sunday Times Magazine: "That situation was so public. I'm not ever going to be one of them - I'm not ever going to be an A-list celebrity. But I chose to get involved in that situation because it was imperative to say what I thought was right."
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He also claimed Heard was given about a third of what she could have been awarded and insisted she 'paid all her own legal fees'.
The estranged couple reached an out of court $7 million settlement in August and Heard donated the entire settlement to domestic violence and children's charities.
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